Mr. Anderson

Well put...I don't live downtown (yet), but I make a concerted effort to support the businesses and other cultural attractions downtown...I have membership to CAC, I try to do all my shoping at Tower Place, I go to tons of Reds games, I eat at the small local food places...whatever I can do to help the cause...I do it! Yes I agree edale, very well put. You're right Rando these days you have to make a conscience effort to frequent the types of stores and food places that help the small or local guys whether it's a downtown biz or something in one of the city's neighborhood business areas.

And if and when they end up building the interchange they'll then complain about about all the congestion :?.

Convergys grows earnings 90% in 4Q Cincinnati Business Courier - 10:33 AM EST Wednesday Convergys Corp. nearly doubled its fourth-quarter earnings, compared with the year-ago period, topping analysts' estimates for the quarter. The Cincinnati-based company posted net income of $44.5 million, or 32 cents per share, up 90 percent from $23.4 million, or 16 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Analysts had expected 30 cents per share, on average. Revenues were $720 million, an 8 percent increase over $670 million in fourth-quarter 2005. Analysts had predicted $713 million in revenues. ... http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/01/22/daily26.html

Is this the same Stephan "I hate public transportation" Louis who helped defeat the light rail initiative a few years ago? Bravo! :clap:

Hum...if it would move, it might be interesting to demolish the building and develop the block like the rest of the Banks. That's never going to happen...period!

Resolution seeks NIOSH Cincinnati City Council chimed in Thursday with a resolution urging the government to build its $70 million National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health research facility in Cincinnati. Four of the seven site options the agency is considering are within city limits; three others are in Clermont County. Council's action followed a similar resolution by Hamilton County commissioners Wednesday. Commissioner Todd Portune has said U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Loveland, has been trying to get NIOSH to relocate to Clermont County, which is in her district. NIOSH researches ways to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. The federal agency has had offices in Hamilton County for 35 years and employs 1,100 people here. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070119/NEWS01/701190407/1056/COL02

Hamilton County now wants to talk to Warren County about sharing new jail By Tiffany Y. Latta Staff Writer Wednesday, January 17, 2007 LEBANON — Officials in Warren and Hamilton counties again want to discuss the possibility of building a regional jail. Warren County Commissioner Pat South said Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune asked to resume talks about ways they can cooperate to help ease overcrowding at their county jails. Click on link for article. http://www.journal-news.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/01/17/hjn011807jail.html

This is the [George] Schaefer who chaired the blue ribbon task force that recommended the elmination of the Cincinnati City Planning Department a few years back...good riddance. :clap: Not the same guy who kicked ass in "Fist of Fury" :-D

Sure you can put 10 changing messages on one sign - hence 9 fewer signs.

Now, that is what one would consider innappropriate use of a word... Guess you're not getting your $$$$ worth?

Now that dude knows how to make a citizens arrest. :shoot:

I wonder if the environmental impact study considers the impact of all those workers driving (alone no doubt) to the far reaches of Clermont County? Keep it in Cincinnati. Clifton #1 or Bond Hill #2. "An environmental impact study is expected to be completed for each site by February, said Phil Youngberg, regional environmental manager for the GSA"

Lets hope that these jobs are new jobs to the region and not a loss for existing areas.

Hearing tonight on NIOSH center BY BARRETT J. BRUNSMAN | [email protected] AVONDALE -- The public will have a chance to comment tonight on four sites in Cincinnati and three in Clermont County being considered by the federal government for a $70 million headquarters for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The U.S. General Services Administration will hold a meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Vernon Manor Hotel, 400 Oak St., in Avondale. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070110/NEWS01/301100012/1056/COL02

Maui somehow ended up in Japon.

Wow, time passes - I'd forgotten these stores ever even existed! :?

UFO landing strip?

This is good news. Cincinnati Financial buys Springfield Twp. site Cincinnati Business Courier - 11:25 AM EST Monday A former Kroger store on Winton Road will be renovated into a facility for Cincinnati Financial Corp., Springfield Township officials said Monday. The Fairfield-based insurer has purchased the property and will renovate it for an IT disaster recovery center and data center, the township said in a news release. The site was vacated when Kroger opened a larger grocery store at Brentwood Shopping Center in Finneytown. Cincinnati Financial estimated that it will take about a year to renovate the interior and exterior of the building, and begin operations there. The insurer is also completing an office tower and expansion at its Gilmore Road headquarters in Fairfield. MORE: http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/12/18/daily5.html?jst=b_ln_hl

I think you may be on to something here..cincy's corp citizens need to step up to the plate and invest in the city. Kroger got a parking garage but we still don't have a flagship urban supermarket downtown. P&G does have their HQ downtown but they could create a private development group for specific downtown projects instead of buidling mr. clean themed carwashes in deerfield township. The city has bent over backwards for these corps for a long time and it should really be a two-way street.

Funny how one of the fastest growing places in Ohio in terms of new jobs can't pay its bills - could it be because so much of it has been low density suburban sprawl? :?

I remember reading about this guy complaining that all the illegals, etc. were costing Butler County a gazillion dollars...now he has authority to actually enforce immigration laws...My guess is there is some federal $$$$ in the pipeline for the sheriff dept.

Yes I think I read somewhere that he lives in nky. I ate at PhoParis right after it opened - it was pretty good - but the location back off the street behind a parking lot made it feel very (sub)urban - unlike JeanRo and Pigalls dt. Sounds like the new location will be better.

There are pluses and minuses to both Cincy and Indy - but I think dt Cincy is at a slight disadvantage because the south bank of the Ohio is another state. Some of the stuff that has gone to that area could have easily been accomodated in Cincy - (of course some of it they can have) I think the Banks project and more developments like the proposed project at the cincy foot of the purple people bridge will make these downtown(s) more accessible - for better or worse.

Ha..I didn't know the BBC had a kentucky bureau. :-D Creation museum pushes 'true history' By Matthew Wells BBC News, Kentucky The museum's main designer has a Hollywood pedigree. A new high-tech temple to fundamentalist Christianity is due to open in heart of Middle America next May, aiming to provide the grandest riposte yet to Darwinian evolutionary theory. Staff and supporters of the Answers in Genesis organisation call it the Creation Museum. But secular scientists would take issue with the use of either word to describe the almost completed building that stands just a few miles west of Cincinnati, on the borders of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6216788.stm

Feds' project weighs four sites in city Also in running for NIOSH laboratories: Clermont Co. BY BARRETT J. BRUNSMAN | [email protected] Three sites in Bond Hill and one in the Clifton area are being considered along with three others in Clermont County for a multimillion-dollar headquarters for two research laboratories operated by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The sites - including 25 acres at the Millcreek Psychiatric Center owned by the city of Cincinnati - were among 20 considered by the U.S. General Services Administration. It's shopping for at least 14 acres on which to consolidate NIOSH's two labs in the city. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061212/NEWS01/612120390/1056/COL02