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Sad this is that was less than 10 years ago.. I remember the sting they play in the background...it just cries out cold weather.

I remember growing up in Louisville that WHAS11 used the same melody for their ads. It was prolly a licensed song that the stations could write their own lyrics to.

Uum, there is no hospital in downtown Portland. The closest is a couple of miles away, like, say, Christ Hospital here. Portland has no Fortune 500 headquarters companies; Cincinnati has half a dozen. Portland has no major league sports facilities downtown; Cincinnati has two. Portland has very few historic properties along its streetcar line; Cincinnati has one of the largest historic districts in the nation. Portland has no public market: Cincinnati has the oldest west of the Alleghenies. Friends of mine who live in Portland and who've visited Cincinnati would be happy to tell you that Cincinnati has much more to work with than Portland had when it opened the streetcar. Oh Snap! Fergie-Ferg and me love you long time... No doubt the Nati has much more going for it than so many other cities.

I am always falling in love with music in TV commericals. Tripped across it here: http://www.whatsthatcalled.com/forum/index.php?s=1748e8266448f9a46977795a4ebd9b45&automodule=blog&blogid=1&&st=80

Tell me that is NOT the Carew Tower [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TrXgYthVE The embed is not working so here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TrXgYthVE

Crikey! What would be nice is for someone to be able to get down in there now and do some documentary photography of what is left.

Kentucky and Australia may have the market cornered. Sugartit is in Boone County along with: Beaverlick (not far from) Big Bone Lick KY also has beauties like: Hihat Eighty Eight

^^^Take a camera next time for some update pics!

^Agreed UR, I think it is pretty clear that this project will complete the collection of four "towers". What I meant about misleading is in that discussing the project they say four towers and make no distinction that some are already finished.

I call misleading then. Height would be good to know.

Looks like one structure...but gee if this goes up as four towers it could look like it's own skyline!

What I was hoping to hear was QCSII will be fast-tracked due to the impending glut of commercial space in The Banks. A "me first" situation.

Great new angles for me. For me I find Kroger to be a wonderful building. I love how it is out of context with its neighborhood and separate form most of the skyline. It also seems to change color depending on the sky conditions. Sometime it looks silver and at others white.

Great photog. Never would have guessed this about Mid. Also didn't know Verity started Armco.

Question: What effect does the launch of the Banks and the accompanying commercial influx have to do with spurring this project to fruition? Do you think that QCSII would have continued to languish if the competitive forces hadn't anted up?

Love the photos...

I think my point is pretty clear. What do you think I meant? Elaborate on what part confuses you.

That's more like it! Seriously. I know what you're saying but you can't always judge a book by its cover. I respect the fact that you "get it" but you are misusing that axiom when you apply it to this discussion. The spirit of it is to discourage prejudice (which is wrong)...what I see this discussion being about is self-preservation and using wise judgment.

Have you looked around Cincinnati Thomas? Lets see there's half the buildings at UC, Scripp's, Chiquita, Federated, Converges, the old Cincy Bell Building, oh yeah and you may have heard of this tiny little neighborhood called OTR! Thomas is right...that Union Terminal piece of dung is just an eyesore and needs to be demolished. I also hate the Ascent, and the Ault Park Pavilion. :drunk:

Awesome...I will have a cold one in honor tonight!

WOW! I bet all your friends laughed at your antics! Were you a bully in grade school too? In my 30 year professional career, I've never had to know the capital of Delaware! Everyone found it to be entertaining...that's only part of the reason I did it. In fact, I was bullied in HS...so it was my chance to get back and he was an easy target. :-P Someone at one time in my youth illustrated to me the importance of using my knowledge in return for the means to make a living. Seems like that was the concept that was at work. The panhandlers profession that night required that he know the capital of Delaware. But what am I taking away from someone who is asking for handouts that they haven't already forfeited themselves? And as for the environment argument... :roll: Fact is, he tried to lie to me and play me for a fool. (It was the old "my family is broken down in the car" routine.) He thought he could hustle me...isn't that degrading? Your estimations of my worth have been made but I would still volunteer that it was not my best moment. He didn't deserve it; a no would've done...and it did, until he asked again. The prologue to this was that the guy actually thought it was coy and engaged in banter with me and my group. Besides, I was young and :drunk:. For Exhibit A in callousness please see: Bum who lies to people constantly and tries to make fools of other people.

NEVER! Having gone to school in Clifton, I have heard every story. I will however, give a $ to someone who is a street performer. I would even wave the dollar in front of the panhandler nearby and then put it in the hat of the performer so as to say..."this is what you need to be doing." EARN IT you irresponsible dolt! Quit being a child! Sorry. After being called names AND threatened because I won't give them $, I have no patience or compassion for the man on the street who is trying to make a fool of me. I will not become an enabler for them. Funny aside: I remember being on Main years ago with friends partying...we were approached and I told one panhandler I would give him the $10 in my hand if he could tell me the capital of Delaware. The importance of an education was illustrated that night. I hope the man went back to school.

Let's not derail this thread _again_ with a NOKY and Cincinnati argument. Cincinnati has its fair share of new development projects, as does NOKY, and there is no need for this nonsense... again. You're right...I could have just as easily inserted West Chester for NoKY. So which is it? I wish I could sue my competitor every time they did something to "hurt" my business. My gosh, only in Cincinnati could a $1 Billion/once in a generation project be allowed to be labeled as a hurt to the CBD. Let's mobilize!

These are the same jerks that would do something like this and then try to put up a defense when someone accuses Cincinnati of not being progressive. What's that I hear? Progress and construction in NoKY... What a novel thing... If there weren't so much sour grapes by WS et al., we might have a good city to pass on to our children. /rant

Something that seems to be forgotten...I haven't seen much discussion lately of the caps and what the likelihood and/or time line of those would be. Could Banks development spur this? FLOODWALL: I got to thinking about this. The garages raise the structures out of the flood plain. Will the new CRFP require/lend a new floodwall immediately south of T Berry Way? The current one exists as 2nd Street, right? It would be neat to see a quick PS redline of where the current and new floodwall exists...knowing that GABP and PBS constitute part of this. So in other words: If we had a 70' crest, what would be the new shoreline? I imagine there would be some weird considerations both west of PBS and east of GABP.