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Dunnhumby employees brainstormed and voted on the name Dunnhumby Centre. really? please tell that's all marketing.

I got a few the other day, I like this with people in view and some context.

Thanks Living in Gin thats kind of what I was trying to say. They failed because of politics not because they were bad ideas. At least not all Republicans are CAVE men, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Republicans; we are on the verge of a new era for high-speed rail in this country, because the United States is a third world country when it comes to high-speed transportation.

I guess we need to define failed. The Riverfront Transit Center was build while there was a big whole there saving millions. I would call that vision. The subway was planned in the early teens stalled because of the the big war and then inflation set in so there wasn't enough money. The planning failed, it doesn't mean the subway was a bad idea. Wasn't the Union Terminal used for years? If you use this standard, man the list is endless of failures, People Purple Bridge = FAILURE.

Right across 4th St is a church, then the Taft Theater, across 5th is the P&G gardens. But if it is messing up views, thats how it goes, someone will just have to build a tower in front of them, or someone else.

I was in University Park Apartments today at UC and I could see the top of the building and the crane shooting up above the skyline, you could see it from floors 3 - 6.

Count me in for a blogger tour if you can get one, that would be incredible wouldn't it?

We have heavy blinds in the bedroom. Still not what one would call dark though. The place WAS lit up Friday night.

Bengals in New Orleans, but Paul Brown is lit up, and so is my condo

Dirty Sandpit, Cygnus Being sarcastic, doesn't translate at all. If we had a streetcar and light rail, they could have saved what $20 millionish on that parking deck?

GAA!!! COAST was rambling on about the unused train station across the street. No one uses it, so why would they use a subway? well?

The view from 2nd St as you come off the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge. This thing really is going to be a monster, what 35 floors to go? More pictures here.

I thought the generally accepted definition of a skyscraper was a building over 150 meters tall. If so, then QCSII is a skyscraper.

Actually what we should strive for is postmodern, that is architecture that is sensitive to and gives a nod to its surroundings, but I think thats what you meant.

You can't compare apples and oranges either, the Cincinnati developers are pretty conservative where as some of the skyscrapers in trouble were bought in boom times, heavily mortgaged and saddled with tons of debt, they never stood a chance when the economy went south.

no ones posted pictures forever, so heres a few from last night, in the cranes look cool in the setting sun kind of pictures.

westbasco don't forget the developer is MED, so you have a good 3 years before those become available. 3 years at the earliest I would say. They are still cleaning up messes at Graydon Place and trying to finish Parker Flats.

Reminds me of UC where you can walk into a building and be on the 5th floor. And some buildings you walk in and have to go up 3 flights to get to the 1st floor.

Maybe they have so much going on that guys were standing around waiting for a crane to become available to move steel. You don't want guys standing around.

Good question, we need to address that because there are people with bikes here.

One of the problems with LEED is how some companies game the system. Did you know you get X amount of points for every bike rack? I think there are a few other silly things like that in there.

I have seven business days until my camera is fixed, then I'll have some pictures up. It was too cold last weekend to walk down there with my wife's craptastic camera. I can't remember what the exact figure was but it seemed to me the cost of each floor above a certain level was squared, adds up fast. And I agree with CincyIntheKnow, I'm happy Cincinnati is getting another tower, we'll never have the tallest so why worry about it?

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If they are going to do a trolley with private money why don't they just do it? Theres no law preventing them right? Then we can see how it actually works until it fails and the streetcar replaces it. Man that would be good for me if it runs frequently.

I wasn't commenting on just you David, last year they spent too many pages on who was going to make money on the deal. I think that whats good for Bortz and Towne Properties is good for Cincinnati. If he can push an agenda through that makes investment possible isn't that good for everyone? Someone is going to make money one way or another.