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Don't get me wrong, I loved Riverfront too...and it holds some special nostalgia for me as well. It was just the dungeon-esque walls and ramps that got me...magnified because GABP was built by that point as well.

Hadn't been to the CBD lately. Funny, when I looked at CT the other day, I felt like it may have already been power washed.

Went there for a game a few years back and was pleasantly surprised. Fans were great and into the game the whole time. Seating areas gave great views. But those concourses, ramps, corridors fueled bad flashbacks of Riverfront.

Sorry if this has been shared.

Nevertheless, traffic is/is becoming an issue in NKY.

Agree with you on the seasons change point. But, MLB has had two seasons of growing attendance. Not a corner turn necessarily, but may be a continuing trend. Rules changes (although I was a skeptic) have improved the consumption of the product. I liked being able to pay a lower flat fee to watch MLS. Unlike Reds, where I had to switch streaming companies to DirecTV or Spectrum or whatever it was for a heftier monthly fee.

Good counterpoints...better said by me is that I think it is easier now than before, where you had to recruit, wait and hope for the best.

Tend to disagree. In the age of the portal, teams can turnaround quickly. Alabama is not really a peer to UC either. Maybe not the best comparison.

After reading all of this, I like the convention center site best. But I think the WE is the one that will happen - IF one gets built.

Yeah, I was taking a cheap poke at them. My thoguht is if they got the Calhoun/Siddal Hall treatment, they would be a very handsome asset to the West End. That gets me excited! We have a budding WE skyline...but man, if you throw out 19 stories, PLEASE come through!

Tend to agree!

Much in the same way Stanley Rowe is. 😐

Agree. Anytime a project is announced for a certain amount of stories in Cincy, you can usually cut that by 30%-50%. Towers of varying heights would add so much to the feel of the development.

That dollar is already spent. They would compete with each other. If the NBA were going to happen in the Commonwealth, it would have already been done at the YUM.

Yep. Young man was a Miami student and Lakota grad. Was a hoops star there. His father taught in the district as well. Very tragic.

It's an odd location, IMHO.

I'd have to see photographic proof of that. It was built in 1967 so that was a bit before my time. Possible that it originally had them I suppose.

No surprise there.

Is this the same one who did Friday?

Ok. I'll be the one. WTH is Rebecca Black?

Put this in the "it's better than an empty lot" category. The early plans were much more ambitious.

6 story hotel "tower".

Less about that than it is the short merge lane for Kyles Lane to NB at the top of the hill. IMHO. Your overall point still applies. it's just in the past couple years that the back up now can extend back to Mt. Zion with regularity now. 71/75 NB backs up daily. It has become one of the notable choke points that travelers expect. Like I-65 south of Birmingham. 65/40 in Nash. 75/40 in Knox. 75/85 in ATL.

Bit of head scratcher. I had not heard a whisper about this project. Honestly, the comparison to KI is clunky because one is obviously going to think it's a thrill park. There's not much in the way of renderings, just this overhead perspective. I looks like to me it's some land that CirclePort hasn't been able to industrialize (Pacific Drive) and from there it activates all of the slopes and valleys of Dry Creek. The latter being a good use IMHO. I wonder if Villa Hills will get in on this as it looks like some of it extends onto the "north rim" of Dry Creek valley. Erlanger/VH city limits are the creek itself.

I'm a rookie as far as aesthetics and architecture goes, but I'm pleasantly surprised at the renderings above. I like the angles on the building both in their form and that they are "against the grain" with the Calhoun/McM street grid. The towers at the corner of Vine and Calhoun will seem huge as you are coming up the Vine hill. I think the view more toward Christ Hospital is more interesting. Fall of 2027 occupancy, so it would seem construction will start pretty quickly and we will see new tower cranes.