Chas Wiederhold

I think Reztark has every reason to be pissed that the project is being shopped around again, at the same time... how many firms in the city have done free work for various parties trying to figure out this building and not awarded a contract?

I have been to many apartments like this, but it is not ideal and not something I would want to pay as must as these rents for, and definitely something I try to avoid as a designer.

What did they do on the atrium levels? Is that a common area now or what?

So curious to see a floor plan of this place. DEEP floorplates so... dark, buried "dens" that some may used as windowless bedrooms.

I would be very sad to see them go. They add so much life to the street, slow down traffic, and create a nice buffer from traffic. I can definitely understand why an already struggling restaurant and bar industry wouldn't prioritize paying this fee over other things.

It looks as if it used to be a theater. @anusthemenace ha! I remember biking by when they were tearing the brick down, yes likely a decade ago, and marveling at what was revealed. Wild it remains partially deconstructed. Lots of water has seeped into that facade with nowhere to go :(

Non-millionaire looking to renovate my 100 year old baby. I think a LOT of individuals will be interested to save 1/5 of a project budget through a single state tax credits typically awarded to large developers.

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I would assume the west end of this block will get a equally or grander upgrade when it becomes a BRT stop. I've been so curious if Metro plans to use the Issue 7 money to help pedestrianization efforts along the BRT corridors in addition to the building of stations, buying the buses, paying the drivers, etc.

I think having a positive attitude about getting rail into the tunnels is not exclusive to bringing people into the stations and programming the tunnels in the short term. The proposals that have high investment costs that don't elevate the station accessibility/experience or altering the tunnels and stations beyond suitability for rail are non-starters, imo. edited for clarification

What is exciting to me is opening up the stations to the public... get people down there! Once the water main is moved (that was the impetus of the RFI), it will be much safer to have the public in the tunnels. I think any grassroots organizer would agree that the public has to demonstrate it has a strong tie to the tunnels and stations for anything to happen down there in the next two decades. Getting people underground will build positive momentum for connecting the sites by rail in the future.

I love this idea. I won't go into too much detail about the proposal I was a part of, but I feel like it is important to add (and the article mentioned it) that GBBN's proposal would not preclude rail in the future. Even if we started planning and lobbying today, we are still a good chunk of time away from riding from Northside to Downtown on a streetcar in a tunnel.

Fort Washington Way WHEN!?

I completely agree. High Street, Franklinton, Arena District... all wild to see the growth over the past 5 years.

Its such an engrossing document You can see a copy in person at the main library but here is a digital copy. https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll15/id/164987/

Do the Kessler Plan!

My capstone at DAAP in undergrad was "The Future of Urban Grocery" and that store was one of our precedents. Aspirational if we can't get a store with housing on top of it. Newport's Walk Score is about to soar.

This would be the closest store to downtown after the Court Street Kroger. The article states that the stores would be about the same size, but this one includes a fuel center. Would be so great to see a more urban format (multi-level, no surface parking, pedestrian oriented experience), but I won't hold my breath.

I think a great move for Samuel Adams would be to create something like what Land Grant has done in Columbus. Lots of big open lots. Room for more activities so they could compete with Madtree and Rhinegeist more. https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZUr1Mk2k6aAiWe7W6

Mock if you must, but I don't think this (effectively what the redesigned HBC would be like along the river) being the gateway between Sawyer Point and Smale is aspirational:

Agree! Plunging the riverfront into darkness and disconnecting Sawyer Point from Smale is the opposite direction riverfront redevelopment needs to go. MSA did the best they could with a bad site.

This is just my own personal doodle... nothing that has been shared with anyone with decision making power, yet at the same time, heavily influenced by the work I did with Bridge Forward. I am definitely in favor of placing an arena in the space gained from the BSB realignment. This location would catalyze development of the additional sites gained from the BSB realignment. I am most excited about a 5th Street Bridge connecting Downtown and Queensgate and how that will reconnect a quadrant of the city so close yet so far from everything else downtown.

Couple this with COVID's impact on reducing office in the core, I think there is a really strong case for what you are suggesting. At the same time, let's do this:

Car brained OTR residents, smdh

I have been pleased with UC's tower renovations (even though I loved the original brick modernism of Siddal and Calhoun). The more sustainable option would be to keep the structure of Daniels and renovate/reclad as necessary. If UC needs to expand room capacity (we know they do), I could see university tearing it down and building on a bigger footprint including the trailers and potentially 60 W Charlton and the outdoor practice field.