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Wooster Pike May Get Boulevard Look Last Update: 1:07 pm http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Wooster-Pike-May-Get-Boulevard-Look/gAYLCu6aNU2rDy8ofWCLRg.cspx Artist renderings of the proposed changes along Wooster Pike in Terrace Park A busy road in one local village could get a new look. Terrace Park Village Council is expected to vote next month on whether to approve spending for changes to Wooster Pike. The project would add medians along the road, giving it a boulevard look. The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments recently approved the village's request for more than half a million dollars. But the money won't be available until July 2011. The project would cost the village $86,000.

Some classic shots!

Covington Offers Delta Queen New Home Reported by: Robyn Tyndall Email: [email protected] Last Update: 8:30 am http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Covington-Offers-Delta-Queen-New-Home/1sZZxF59tkSWv2RVFicTdg.cspx Covington city leaders say they would love to provide a new home for the Delta Queen along the banks of the Ohio River.

Burke to move into ADP facility Downtown market research firm Burke Inc. will spend more than $10 million converting a West Seventh Street office building into a headquarters for its 229 employees. The firm paid $6.3 million in December for the building formerly owned by Automatic Data Processing Inc. ADP moved its 170 employees to Florence last summer. “We have experienced steady growth over the last several years,” said Andrea Fisher, Burke’s marketing communications manager. Burke earned $60.4 million in revenue in 2008, up from $53.1 million in 2007. It also has 152 part-time employees in Milford. Fisher declined to share names of its clients or specific reasons for its success. The firm’s biggest client sectors include consumer packaged goods manufacturers, telecommunications, financial services and pharmaceuticals. Read full article here: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/01/19/story4.html

Springdale Applebee’s closing By John Eckberg • [email protected] • January 21, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090121/BIZ01/301210052 The flagging economy and competition among fast casual eateries has claimed another suburban chain restaurant as the Springdale Applebee’s will be closing after 20 years in business. See link for article.

Really? I always found the Western Bowl lanes to be among the best in town. When you say "lane conditions" are you talking about surface quality? Randy, I believe you may be psycho analyzing the issue here! I have been in the building many times within the past 6 months and I will admit that they keep the place extremely presentable. Is it new decor? No, but that is part of the nostalgia of the place! Plain and simple, the shear SIZE of the place may have got the best of them. It was great when built, but not economical by 2009 standards.

While 120% is high, it's not 300+%. This has nothing to do with Ohio informed/uninformed voters. This has everything to do with the STILL unregulated financial market! We shouldn't have to vote on this sh!t. Our elected officials are SUPPOSED to be watching out for us! As laughable as that sounds.

Or Rumors!

^Bingo! It probably would be a pain to get the easements after the fact!

Banks developers think 'edgy' Phase 1A could include boutique hotel By Lisa Bernard-Kuhn • [email protected] • January 21, 2009 DOWNTOWN - Talksare under way with several boutique hoteliers and top-tier entertainment venues that developers hope will anchor the initial leg of The Banks riverfront development. Developers say construction is on track to begin in June on the first major retail and residential phase of the project: an $80 million, 300-unit apartment complex that will include roughly 70,000 square feet of retail space. Full story text is available at http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090121/BIZ01/901210342/1055/NEWS

HUMANA! No I'm kidding! I am confused too though REK.

Man, Hindsight's 20/20! We can play Monday Morning QB all day long, but for businesses like these, how long do/can you hold out in the current economic conditions. Throw in all the negative predictions you hear for '09 and possibly '10 and beyond. This might be the tip of the iceburg! Societies needs and priorities are going to change in a "tighter" credit world. Many entertainment businesses might not be left standing after this is done. Movie theaters might be the next to start closing in large numbers. How long it takes us ALL to evolve and who's left standing is going to be the million dollar question.

I like this one!!!

Alley's closing 'a sign of the times' By Quan Truong • [email protected] • January 20, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090120/NEWS01/901200324 GREEN TWP. - Erv Hoinke has some explaining to do. As news spreads of his recent decision to shut down Western Bowl, one customer after another has approached either Hoinke or an employee, asking the same question: "Why?" "We've tried really hard to make it work," said Hoinke, owner of the West Side landmark. "But there just isn't enough business. People just don't see the value in bowling anymore, I guess."

Yea, awesome shots! That is pretty clear what those columns are going to support.

Ok, which one of you heathans started this one? Props!!! Search for this group if you have a facebook accout. It's pretty good! When Society and Order breaks down, we shall meet at the Cinci Mills Mall. This took some planning and ALOT of free time!

^For real!!

By god, we might just win the bloody series this year!!! :wink: Dusty, have a Coke and a Smile!

Strickland taps 'infrastructure czar' Business Courier of Cincinnati http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/01/19/daily2.html?surround=lfn The Strickland administration is making sure the state is prepared for when time comes to jump on the multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package taking shape in Congress. The governor’s office Friday said it created a temporary “infrastructure czar” job, which will be staffed by Cleveland Foundation CEO Ronald Richard. In the part-time, unpaid position, Richard will be in charge of determining the best way to distribute money the state receives for infrastructure work under the stimulus program. ...

Reds pick Coke over Pepsi for ’09 season Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Terry Lefton Courier Contributor Coca-Cola has signed a five-year deal with the Cincinnati Reds for exclusive beverage rights at the Great American Ball Park. Pepsi has held beverage rights at Great American since it opened in 2003, and its relationship with the Reds dates back more than decade. But the most recent manifestation of red versus blue sees Coke coming on board, with broad-based exclusive beverage rights that include soft drinks, isotonic, juice and energy drink rights. Full story at http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/01/19/daily13.html

This will be interesting to keep an eye on!!! It doesn't include CVG........yet! Hartsfield-Jackson, Delta fighting over cost increases Business Courier of Cincinnati - by J. Scott Trubey Courier Contributor Delta Air Lines Inc. is at odds with Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport over operating costs and lease negotiations at the world’s busiest airport. The tiff, if unresolved could prompt Atlanta-based Delta to move some of its capacity elsewhere, an executive wrote recently to airport officials. The airline operates its second-largest hub at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. Delta is contesting the rising cost of capital improvement projects -- such as the $1.6 billion Maynard Holbrook Jackson International Terminal, which is now projected to cost double original estimates -- and what it says will be a doubling of its unit costs by 2016. Delta, the world’s largest airline, and other carriers at Hartsfield-Jackson operate under a 30-year lease, which expires in 2010. Formal negotiations have not started, but Delta and other carriers have wanted to commence lease talks since October 2007. Full story at http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/01/19/daily14.html

Repeats what we already know!! Metro cuts Bridgetown bus service Elimination due to low ridership By Kurt Backscheider • [email protected] • January 16, 2009 Cindy Lanning wants Green Township residents to be aware a portion of Metro's bus service in Bridgetown is being eliminated effective March 1. Metro announced last month it is altering some bus route schedules and fares to help address a projected $4.8 million deficit in its 2009 budget. One of the changes set to take place in March is the elimination of the Bridgetown loop segment of Route 33 in Green Township. The Bridgetown loop runs from Glenway Avenue to Lawrence Road to Ebenezer Road to Bridgetown Road and back to Glenway. Buses make six trips in the morning and seven trips in the evening along the loop Monday through Friday. There is no service along the loop on Saturdays or Sundays. Read full article here: http://communitypress.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20090116/NEWS/901160358/

I wish you guys the best Amy!!! Thanks!

A big vision becoming concrete Foundation poured for Great American Insurance Building, city's tallest By Amber Ellis • [email protected] • January 19, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090119/NEWS01/901190345/1055/NEWS DOWNTOWN - One by one, dozens of trucks lined Third Street on Sunday, waiting to unload concrete into a vacant lot that will soon house the city's tallest skyscraper. Below, more than 100 workers, clad in yellow construction jackets, hurried about. They had 12 hours to complete one of the largest continuous concrete pours in Downtown history. "It's kind of interesting to see all that was put into place," said Tom Stapleton, vice president of Eagle Realty Group, the developer of the $322 million project. "There are very few times you see someone pull off a big logistic undertaking such as this. This was a choreographed type of event. There were so many people, so many different parts and pieces of equipment." Once work is done, the Great American Insurance Building at Queen City Square will become a focal point of the cityscape. The massive tower, with its crown inspired by a tiara worn by Princess Diana, will begin to take shape on Sycamore Street between Third and Fourth streets. It will measure 86 feet higher than Carew Tower, now the city's tallest building.

Answers on bridge en route Report on Brent Spence options due soon By Barry M. Horstman • [email protected] • January 19, 2009 http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090119/NEWS01/901190408 Sometime next month, a heavy report - inches thick and filled with the kind of statistics, charts, maps and other data that only a traffic engineer could love - will land with a thud on desks in government buildings throughout Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. No one, not even those who devote their careers to such matters, expects the report to be a breezy, engaging read. But because it deals with the bridge that local drivers love to hate - the Brent Spence Bridge - it's generating the kind of advance buzz normally reserved for books chosen for Oprah's Book Club.