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^ '80s party?

Argh, I miss Cincy. I'd probably still be there if I didn't (pretty much) have to start my business in Columbus.

AHAHAHA, of course there's one by Wal-Mart.

5 days on fiction, 14 days on nonfiction. You must be irresponsible because you didn't keep you receipt.

Many more germs are transmitted through the hands than the air. It's best to sneeze or cough toward the floor with nothing in front of your mouth.

Er, well if you don't know where Touchdown Jesus is either, this is off I-75 at the Monroe exit.

It's like 1987 all over again watching retail get demolished at this site.

Is this facility covered in frosting?

I was going to chastise you for having your high beams on in the city, but McMillan's a one way through there. LOL

That Baltimore library shot makes me think of the old library in Cincy except that it is self-serve.

I don't like this project. They should be spending the money on speed bumps. $109 Million? We should have been able to vote against it.

There really are a lot of small, inexpensive things such as these parking changes that can help Downtown flourish once implimented.

^ They'll be able to take home a pocket-size piece for a few bucks.

^ Much like in Berlin!

Those in the medical field, for example.

^ Yes, they will. If they've got equivalent job offers in cities with rail transit and without, assuming no ties to either area, they'll go for the city with rail much more often than not.

Heh, you're right. It's been proven again and again that SE Ohio gets told that highway expansion will somehow create permanent jobs for the region but nothing ever happens. A more extreme example is West Virginia, where billions have been spent on rural highway upgrades with no discernible economic development to go with them. Obviously, this bridge project will not have an extremely high cost/benefit ratio, but it has much more potential than upgrading OH 141 between Ironton and Galliapolis.

When YPs spend money, the money is more likely to stay in the community. They tend to spend money at independent businesses like bars, restaurants, used record stores, guitar shops etc. as opposed to the general population whose money is more likely to go to Wal*Mart, Applebee's and such, where it gets sent to other states and countries.

When stores play repetitive stuff over and over, does it ever even cross their minds that it increases the misery factor of working there by at least 10X, or do they just not care? Advertising loops are one of the most vile things a business can do to their customers as well. Is it really worth it, retail America?

^Yep, a buddy of mine just ate there a month ago.

That's the last surface lot left on West Campus, I believe.

Nice. Heritage Station does kind of feel like it's in a pocket off to the side. Huntington is a naturally walkable/bikeable place and this makes it even better.

I don't think there is already a similar thread. What systems have you ridden? I've ridden: COTA Cincinnati Metro D.C. Metro (subway & bus) NYC Subway & bus Las Vegas "People Mover" Paris Metro Berlin U-Bahn and S-Bahn Amsterdam Tram Wiesbaden, Germany bus Neroberg-Wiesbaden Incline Frankfurt-Wiesbaden S-Bahn Miller Boat Line ferry (to Put-In-Bay, does that count?)

^ I can kind of see why the overall investment market may move away from common shares of public companies as the largest part of portfolios. The notion of growth investing has taken a bit of a beating after the tech bubble, with a lot of people speaking highly of value investing -- of course, value investing still consists of common stock of public companies. I have been working on a theory that the whole notion of "grow, grow, grow", especially combined with the constant cost-cutting that U.S. companies fetishize, is reaching its max. They can't grow any more given the constraints of today's U.S. and world economies and the ones of the near- to medium future. I really think that most of them have gone so overboard with the cost cutting that they have made it nearly impossible for their sales to grow by a significant degree. Therefore, the only way for them to make more money is for them to screw people or get them addicted to their product (with negative consequences for the consumer). Meanwhile, most private companies have a vision that is held strong by one or a few passionate entrepreneurs at the top. They tend to offer more truly desirable products and services and can handle a slow year without shareholders hunting them down and killing them, especially if it means maintaining the integrity of the company and reaping a larger sales increase in the future because of it. Of course, for an individual investor, getting a share of the profit is pretty difficult. Private equity is only available to bigshot investors, and going private equity often gives a private company too many characteristics of a public company to reap the benefits of a visioned private company.

Anything in particular kill this mall?