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I thought they start the park this summer, but I am not totally sure bout that!

2.) Glenway Dodge - (Glenway) Recently closed for demolishing for a proposed strip center with possibly two restaraunts on site. 3 acres of anthing better than this crap!!!!!!

God, that picture is sick! The hey-day huh. Density! Density!

I think there is a few old farmhouses mixed into the subdivisions. There is an old house on Lawrence for one, and Nick & Tom's dates back quite a while. There definitely aren't many old ones left ,but that would be a good question to do research on. Cheviot has Bridgetown beat in this category hands down and is less than a mile away.

We can't bust the champleee out just yet! I have wasted many bottles on premature or false info from our local media. :wink: It is incouraging news though!!!!!!! Damn, That's only a month away! This years flyin!

Well, I got nothing in writing! It is just all talk inside of the bar. I was under the impression it was protected under that historic clause as well, which is why most owners couldn't drastically alter the bar, so I was shocked to find that out this past Tuesday. There may be more to this! Your project for the intersection was for school, I take it? No affiliation with the county or ODOT?

Yea, I portrayed that wrong. I didn't mean OTR demand was gone. Suburban demand is what I had in mind. OTR has bottomed out and can only go UP in value. Sorry, I got off on a tangent about this line - "They don't want their property values being effected by the drug dealer in the next building."

I might take a vacation day and park my a$$ at PBS with a lawn chair and a cooler full of Ice cold beverages.

Drug dealers, foreclosures, this stuff happens in ALL neighborhoods now. Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Indy, and NKY. Nobody is going to escape the current trends of decreasing home values. The demand is gone!

I still don't buy it!!!

You are correct about Target. This will help bring a higher class of people in than most of the current tenants. Ex: Dollar Store, Shoe stores, Game Stop, TJ Maxx, Deveroes. (Let's face it, the customers who shop at Targets generally are a bit different than a Wal-Mart customers.) As for Glenway Crossing, I don't know. That development was a Hack layout from the start, plus the owners refuse to maintain their property. They could blow it all of that up and start over again, IMO. (Glenway Crossing area with Circuit City, Pep Boys, and the current Target.) All in all, this is the most development at one time than the westside has seen in several generations. (Throw in the Green Twp. Harrison corridor and the multiple projects slated for the Price Hill and Westwood area.)

The Western Hills Plaza - (Glenway) No loss here! Good riddens! Again sorry bout the picture quality. Slated for demo are the former Media Play, Kroger, and the last two pics are of the Shell Station across the Werk Rd intersection. (Dunkin Doughnuts rumor.) Paul closed the Marathon station within the last couple months, so unless somebody steps up soon, that may come down as well. Talk from Centro is that they are going to add a third restaraunt somewhere in that sea of pavement. I wish they would reconfigure the entire campus, it could make for a descent lifestyle center. 212,000 people live within a five mile radius. http://www.centroprop.com/PropertyProfile_short.asp?ProjectID=POHWESTH1

Good idea on the sign! It has been through quite a few owners since Pete's 1st wife. The Lambernedies sold to an ex marine within the last couple years. It never was a bad neighborhood hole in the wall. I have been in there so much in my life that I never really considered it scary. It might just give off that perception with all the bikes and characters that walk out of there though. Stumps, The Ballgame, hahaha Don't forget Osterhues and that kick ars bridge that used to span that entire intersection back in the early 80's. I have never been able to find a picture of that bridge. That was the biggest loss of that intersection because that was what should have been the Westside Lt. rail line.

That's great!

Ok, here goes nothing! This is the Wagon Wheel near the Bridgetown-Race-Glenway intersection. As you can (barely) see, any widening of the road is going to effect this structure dated from the late 1800's I believe. Rumor is it used to be a brothel way back in the day. Inside are pictures of horse and buggy's on a dirt B-town Rd. Slated for demo in March as of right now. Many great memories when I was underage and it was under different ownership than today. So sad! I wish I could find a way to get that neon sign before they F it up.

I went out and attempted taking some pics of some of the activity taking place on a 3-4 mile stretch of Glenway deep in the heart of the Westsiiyyde. You all need to bear with me because of my ignorance of posting pictures so this may take a couple days. Let me break down just some of the sites of what you could consider 1st generation suburban infill. All of these are taking place within the already established suburbs on the west side of Cincinnati approx. 50-70 yrs old. These are some of the properties that are being demolished in the name of progress and or Economic Redevelopment. Needless to say NONE of these will be missed and are not what you would consider Architecturally pleasing to look at. Almost any new development will be a step up from it's predecessor: 1.) Western Hills Plaza - (Glenway) Owner Centro, is now demolishing the old Media Play and Kroger with hopes to build a new $10 mil Target and $5 mil worth of upgrades and remodeling for one of Cincinnati OLDEST shopping centers. (Hopefully they will make it similar to the new Kroger Center in the Western Village across the street from WHP, which Centro also owns. Latest news is Centro is trying to liquidate there Cincy assets though) 2.) Glenway Dodge - (Glenway) Recently closed for demolishing for a proposed strip center with possibly two restaraunts on site. 3.) Shell Station - (Werk & Glenway) Recently demolished after sitting vacant for years. (Hopefully one of Dunkin Doughnuts future sites!) 4.) Oskamp Fields - (Glenway & Midway) Recently demolished conscession stands to make way for a proposed baseball complex for ADA kids. Sounds cool and the renderings look great on another thread. (With some help from this years Reds Community Fund and CRC.) 5.) Wagon Wheel - (Bridgetown & Glenway) This one hurts me personally due to the many memories of the past 7 yrs. Yes, this pillar of the community is coming down in the name of traffic progress. Widening of the bottleneck of Bridgetown Rd., Glenway, and Race. They are doing away with the "merge" style ramps, which our society cannot maneuver through, and has deemed this one of the states most dangerous and accident prone intersections. Oy!! There are plenty more and I will attempt to stay on this and LEARN how to post some pics. (Any advice would greatly appreciated!) I can't do much though about the 3.2 mp camera's quality. I know, it's time to upgrade put I am not a Photographer Master, as some of you are.!!! :wink:

There faceless buildings with no character at all! :evil: however, a little Lt rail action in front of them might dress 'em up!

Yea, that is some pretty ugly sh!t.

I'm sorry, who is she affiliated with again?

If anyone knows how turn that into a yard sign, I will buy one!!!!!! :wink:

^ Mine is too! I find it interesting how people say the housing construction industry will be back by 09. I just don't see coming back like the past 50 years. We have more of a supply of houses than demand calls for and the population doesn't look like it is going to grow that much anytime in the near future. If you plan on working and surviving in the housing industry, you will have to get creative by rehabbing and rebuilding in prime locations near MASS TRANSIT!

Where did you live in EPH to get the "poop stench? Was it closer to LPH?

Sorry, wrong site! Here is his email from the county's website. [email protected] http://www.hamilton-co.org/hcrpc/canDirectory.asp?typ=orgDetail&ID=349

Personally I don't, but I know many Price Hill business owners who deal with him quite regularly. I will drop him an email! http://www.pricehillwill.org/

^No, we are not disagreeing here. I personally don't think Pete knows too much about this issue or the potential and he is just seeing the $102mill price tag and is commenting in the heat of the moment.