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^Why no turn signals here? I hate that. Are people's arms so heavy that they can't lift them to hit the stalk?

Do you remove your faceplate?

Who that has taken 10th grade economics be shocked by that?

^ Jeez, at that age they aren't even real criminals. They're just thugging because thugging is portrayed as cool.

^ It would apply to D.C. Metro, being in two states and the District.

Great shots of the 2% of Hillard that is actually halfway decent.

^ Downtown malls simply don't work. A speaker from Simon explained that to a room of prospective interns (including myself) about a year before Simon bought City Center.

They could put it at Brice and I-70

Are they trying to make everything in this country oversize and overweight?

So it was the girl acting like a suburbanite woman? hehe

Don't forget that tons of small businesses close for personal, non-financial reasons.

I like the gas mask fashion about 2/3rds of the way down.

Not necessarily. The Convention Center includes a wide range of dining options in the form of their existing food court, restaurants, and bar. The new Hilton Hotel will also include multiple restaurants and bars. If you park your car in the garage, there's really no reason to go outside at all. Unless maybe you want to get your car out and check out the fabulous offerings of Polaris or Easton. Exhibitors and attendees often avoid hotel/convention center bars and restaurants in order to take a break from the show, seeing the same people and the general sterility of facilities oriented to the convention and trade show business, especially people who go to a lot of them. Trust me, when the show is over for the day people want to go someplace else, even if it is the bar across the street.

^UC will be sorry in about 10 years if it surburbanizes within the next few years. I have a feeling that kids hitting college in the next 10-15 years may vomit at anything associated with suburbs. Streetcars and light rail will draw them in, but if it ends up looking like a train ride through Florence they still won't attend the school.

I always like it when it snows and both the Kenwood Cut and the Cut in the Hill are totally toast. It's so awesome that there's no other way to get around than by car.

I suppose bourbon should be produced in Kentucky.

The busiest part of the convention season is when the weather is often crummy (late fall, late winter/early spring). The skywalk comes in handy when exhibitors want to preserve their appearance while carrying small items for their display from their room to the GCCC. They will have to go to street level to go anywhere but the Convention Center.

HELL TO THE NO!! The mortgage plus the maintence fee are a killer. I don't need to have a Park Avenue address. I know how to live within my means! O c'mon, $17 million is chump change for you! p.s. you mentioned Park Av. It wasn't that new, narrow little all-glass building (it looks like a tall fishtank) at Park & 87th, was it? The prices in that place (there are only a handful of units) have got to start at 17 mill. Ahh, he cant make that much. He works for someone else.

^D'oh

Not to fear, the Char Bar's safe. Here's a photo from the Auditor's website of the Char Bar building. Looking at that fourth hotel rendering (High Street view looking south), you can see the Char Bar building and the larger Carlile Building are still there. Oh I see, the hotel is to the *south* of those buildings. Then it will just be infill.

In Columbus we used to have several of these -- that's how it works.

Blast. You'd make a pretty good early '80s Rob Halford clone if you know how to sing.

^ Awesome avatar and slogan, CBC. I should make a COBRA one with whiskey since I'm a member of COBRA. Err, sorry for going off-topic, my pet peeve is Joes screwing up my ruthless terrorist plans.

^ Either that or they transformed and rolled out.

Blast, it looks like it's taking out Char Bar.