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Monte, your right. the city needs to market itself better...and what better way then having a landmark the city can market itself around...what better way to say to the country that were a proud, growing city that is looking to the future

i have to respectfully disagree...Coming from another city, Most people from where i'm from and where i've traveled to have heard of cincinnati, but don't know anything of it. When I show them pictures, they are like "oh wow, I thought it was a little town" I know in the San Fernando Valley area where my family's from, everyone heard cincinnati and thought ohio (pretty much means countryside in the rest of the nation). Or they say "oh ya, the riots." The perceived and incorrect idea is that ohio/midwest minus chicago is 10 years behind the rest of the country. I kind of agree to a certain extent. Do i think building a national and unique landmark will wipe away this view? not at all, but its a start. A landmark would symbolize cincinnati's step into the "future" and it would be a universal symbol for the cincinnati area and It would cap off the great ideas of the banks, putting an exclamation point on the city...Just my opinion

cmon phase II!!!!!

i expect the worst that way if it does get build, i'm pleasantly suprised...but that building would be sweet

like i said, we need a monument...NYC has the empire state building, st louis has the arch, dc has everything, chicago has the sears...we need something the US will hear and automatically say, Thats cincinnati. nobody knows that the roebling bridge was the prototype for the brooklyn bridge, nobody knows the carew tower.

we need an icon...something the US will recognize because of its uniqueness and beauty

Also, I've said this a billion times, but I think the amount of parkspace is flat out excessive. Compare the 40 acres shown with Millenium Park at 25 acres. MP will continually draw more people than this because it has a)more tourists b)more nearby residents and c)more nearby businesses and attractions. It's great to utilize the land in the floodplain, but the blocks above the curvilinear street (mehring?) should be developed. Don't waste valuable land on open space. Agreed...we should put as much of it as possible to apartments, condos, shopping, etc...We already have a sawyer point...I just don't see such a high demand for a park that brings no revenue for the city of cincinnati. I honestly don't think people will drive from the suburbs to go to this park. it will be a ghost park

Mallory was extremely excited on cold pizza to talk about the banks project...said for the first time in 50 years, cincinnati is gaining population. all because of a bad throw

Ya well everytime I am driving and there is a bus in the vicinity, somehow they always try to run me off the road... Its an intense psychological battle similar to Hannibal Lector and Jodi Foster

so is this project now back? or has it been too long?

cincinnati politics at its finest...an idea, gets scaled back, then either it disappears or its built 10 years later

Finally, some details

New twist at 5th and Race BY JON NEWBERRY | [email protected] Western & Southern Financial Group Inc. has raised the stakes in its bid to develop a key downtown Cincinnati site at Fifth and Race streets, a site that’s also being pursued by Playhouse in the Park as a potential location for a new theater complex. The insurance company’s Eagle Realty Group LLC subsidiary told city officials Wednesday that it now wants to build about 500 condominiums and 1,200-to-1,400 parking spaces in a two-phase project at a cost of more than $100 million. It would also include neighborhood-oriented retail space along Fifth, Race and Sixth streets. Depending on how quickly the remaining financing, approvals and plans can be put in place, it could begin construction by the end of the year or in early 2008, Tom Stapleton, Eagle’s senior vice president for real estate investment management, said today. The first phase of the twin-tower project would take about two years, he said. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070921/ENT/70921007/1025/LIFE

Went to tampas historic district Ybor city recently which also hapens to be a huge place for nightlife. they have these slow moving streetcars that go in the middle of the street and take passengers who are touring and intoxicated passengers around. pretty sweet idea if you ask me.