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CINCINNATI- Next week, Cincinnati will start work on efforts to spruce up its side of the L&N Bridge, commonly known as the Purple People Bridge. For more info, click the link www.businessjournal.com Sounds Great..........

The Freedom Center Will Make It...........

Oh well I like it but yeah I see what you are saying grasscat about the 2nd street wall. I guess I just like the shape of the facility and the tile they used that they imported from Italy.

They are now starting to put up the steel at the Convention Center so I guess it should be really taking shape here soon......... If you want to take a look for yourself you can just go to wcpo.com........

I went down to the Freedom Center yesterday and it is just breathtaking you think the outside looks good my god wait to you see the inside......Its Great!

Well today we got some National Attention Im sure more is to come as Aug. 23 approches........... Slavery's horror and freedom's promise By Jayne Clark, USA TODAY Cincinnati's new National Underground Railroad Freedom Center sports interactive displays, an environmental theater and the assorted bells and whistles expected in a 21st-century museum. But what's likely to grab visitors' initial attention is a 171-year-old slave pen that has been re-erected within the $110 million complex. The "pen," which resembles a small, two-story log house, was found on a Kentucky tobacco farm, where it had been built as temporary quarters for slaves destined for sale at points south. The rough-hewn 20-by-30-foot structure is the facility's crowning icon, and it stands as a stark testimony to what those traveling this 19th-century slave route were seeking to escape. A decade after it was first proposed, the 158,000-square-foot Freedom Center opens Tuesday (the official dedication is Aug. 23) on the north bank of the Ohio River and at the heart of a 200-mile stretch used by fleeing slaves known as the "freedom corridor." But the Freedom Center is more than a museum. Executive director Spencer Crew likens it to other "cultural institutions of conscience," such as Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum. "It (the Underground Railroad) is only part of a larger story and we're very much interested in talking about that larger story," Crew says. "We see our niche as looking at issues of human and civil rights. How do we as citizens of the U.S. and the world (preserve) freedom and help others enjoy it?" Which is not to say the facility doesn't share characteristics with more conventional museums. It exhibits Civil War artifacts, shackles and anti-slavery publications, for example. But because of the clandestine nature of the Underground Railroad, which refers to the network that shepherded thousands of slaves to freedom, few artifacts remain. "It was very secretive, so there isn't a lot of tangible evidence," says Rita Organ, director of exhibits and collections. "But it's not difficult to tell the story without the tangible items." Much of the focus is on the personal stories of people who passed through and the anti-slavery activists who aided them. Among the highlights: •Brothers of the Borderland, a film that commemorates local abolitionist heroes in an "environmental theater" with piped-in natural sounds, trees and mist to replicate a rural nighttime setting. • "From Slavery to Freedom," a more traditional exhibit featuring artifacts, timelines and the stories of hundreds of participants. • "Escape! Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad," an attraction designed for children ages 3 to 8. Initial opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 E. Freedom Way in Cincinnati, is Tuesday. Official opening ceremonies are Aug. 23. Timed tickets can be booked online beginning Sunday at freedom center.org/tickets. Cost is $12 for adults; $8, ages 6-12. Some same-day passes are available during center hours, 11 a.m. tro 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Information: 877-648-4838

I walked past Queen City Square today and it is officially at street level so it should begin to pick up here shortly............

Wow I think this is so great and as a person from another city I do think The City Of Cincinnati has really turned the corner........

By John Erardi Enquirer staff reporter With a little more than two months to go, the new Reds Hall of Fame and Museum appears on schedule to make its targeted grand opening Sept. 25. "It's hard to imagine another franchise being able to do something the scale of this project," said Greg Rhodes, executive director of the museum. "We've got so much great history, we can easily fill a 15,000-square-foot building to the point of overflowing." Rhodes led a tour of about 30 media members through the museum Wednesday afternoon. Cincinnati is the home of professional baseball. It played host to the first all-professional team in 1869, and the museum plays heavily upon that theme. http://www.cincinnati.com

I dont know about this project and didnt they cancel the underground tunnel option.......

Im not sure grasscat should we be concerned, I know today it was more than 100 people at the aronoff center for that meeting maybe diffrent locations will have diffrent turnouts what do you think.......

But I dont think St. Louis is gon to keep at this pace they will fall apart it is just a matter of time I think.......

I hope they stay in it......Go Reds

Yeah I like the new reds team store it is very nice.

Have the tower started to come out the ground yet........Does anybody know.......

Oprah Winfrey Gives $1 Million to Museum: CINCINNATI - Oprah Winfrey has given $1 million to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and is narrator of an educational film for the museum, its administrators said. The $110 million museum, being built along the Ohio River, commemorates the secret Underground Railroad network that helped slaves escape from the South to the free North during the 1800s. Winfrey, whose donation was announced Thursday, will narrate a short film introducing "Brothers of the Borderland," a film and interactive theater program. A reconstructed slave holding pen also will be part of the museum. Celebrity supporters of the museum, many of whom are expected to participate in the center's dedication ceremonies Aug. 23, include Vanessa Williams, Angela Bassett (news), Muhammad Ali, Quincy Jones (news), Bono and Danny Glover (news). Two of the center's three pavilions will be named after the families of Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson and former Procter & Gamble Co. chief executive John Pepper, who each donated $3 million to the museum. Pepper joined with former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young to serve as chairmen of a fund-raising campaign for the museum. Great......

I dont like the way they look

Mark you dont live next to the Chiquita building you live next to convergys center the chiquita building is across from the Procter & Gamble global headquaters but wow i wish i could live downtown everything is just so high except the sixth and race apts. but they are all full

You know what I have to tell you all that you all are really good investigaters, in a sense you all are experts when it comes to development im very impressed with everybody on this forum.......

Sure I mean like you said everybody has thier own opinion.........

wow lexington is now bigger than louisville!

yup thats right and its funny how alot of the cities are just set apart by a few thousand.....

Jeff you are right and if people did do it like that it would make columbus the third largest metro area in the state cincinnati and cleveland are both larger than columbus in metro population.

I can not belive columbus just fooled me in population and it should have been obvious that columbus's population was not completly right.According to emporis.com Columbus is 728,432 in city(not) and 1,900,497 in metro.Cincinnati 317,371 in city (true) and 2,089,089 in metro.Cleveland 461,324 in city (true) and 2,944,275 in metro.

You know what montecarloss you are right I was wondering how in the hell is columbus population so large for a city that has so much less than cities its size and cities that are smaller than it, well i found out thats becouse the city of columbus merged/expanded its boundaries in a sense with some of the smaller cities in frankin county thats what made thier population so large or appear to be so large, and well if thats the case if the city of cincinnati was to merge with the other smaller cities in hamilton county cincinnati's population would sky rocket to more than 800,000........ and thats the same for cleveland its population would sky rocket too......