neilworms

You love defending the status quo don't you.

For the most part very nice! I'm quite impressed.

Yeah that Tokyo deal has been going on all year from Chicago as well. Still doesn't excuse how darn expensive cvg is. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2

I'm sick of hearing it frankly. Its a nice looking color scheme and the whole world doesn't revolve around petty sports rivalries.

These are still better looking than most of what goes up in Cincinnati, don't kid yourself. Remember this? http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/f10b7988b1a015d0c4fa94ffb03f6bea1c38c864/c=212-0-3659-2592&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2016/04/08/Cincinnati/Cincinnati/635957190838089110-DSC-0013.JPG They aren't great though.

Metro Buses feel the same way, the moment you enter the basin the bus tells you you are in Downtown. Its not after central parkway.

Its so crazy how blind Cincinnati is to its architectural treasure. Every other city that has it in the US seems to recognize and celebrate it a lot more. I do see signs of hope towards change though - it seems that younger folks in Cincy are much more proactive towards realizing how important the cities historic treasure is. Preservation groups in other cities have this stereotype of being "old ladies clubs" but I've noticed in Cincy some of the best preservation advocates have been folks my age and younger. Being from closer to Dayton originally I guess gave me an insider and outsiders perspective, inside enough to Cincinnati to understand the city mentality but outsider enough to realize what's wrong with it. 10 years ago the Dennison would have gone down without even a fight. Things are moving in the right direction, I just hope it isn't too late. Wish more of Walnut Hills especially had been saved.

This isn't the 70s the Josephs and much of Cincy's old guard elite need to realise this. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2

What?! You've been posting a lot of weird stuff but the Josephs facing imprisonment takes the cake Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2

It's glorified because of how early it was built in that style it was one of the earliest modernist skyscrapers in the country and designed by well regarded architect. I'm no fan of modernism but if there are examples of this style that should be preserved this is it. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2

^-When I'm in the lower nob hill or "TenderNob" area of San Francisco I get a very "Old picture of downtown Cincinnati" vibe to it.

Not necessarily the big cities still have quite a few people who fit into this mold and still have way more retail than Cincy does. I actually feel Cincy has more families than Chicago IMO. I'm not sure if its suburbanites coming into town, but it always shocks me on weekdays when I'm down in Washington Park just how many young kids are there.

Lots of this still exists in the victorian neighborhoods of Chicago, Wicker Park, Noble Squre and Pilsen I believe have a few of these streets. Here's a good example, note how the building goes below the street and the entrance is actually on the second floor: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9099895,-87.6664629,3a,75y,125.68h,90.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHx2ZhgDeILTdsLgrSY2tJA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Yeah that was a really great building, part of an unnecessary mass demolition that happened up there :/ Throwing away their best assets...

There is :(. Law was put in place banning after midnight... Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2

Mexican duck Creek? That's the only area in the whole region that has buildings like socal Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2

I push a lot for Cincinnati to raise its profile in part so it can get more bands (and movies earlier too as both were things that drove me crazy when I lived there and I felt Cincy had enough interesting stuff that it could set itself apart from its neighboring metros). Make Cincinnati a destination people are willing to travel to and bands will come there because then people could make a weekend out of it ;). Cincy will get more concerts if it sells the assets it has and makes itself a more desirable city for both people to live in and visit. Its on its way to doing that, but still needs a nice little push, people like Cranley won't help nor will a single new concert venue help either.

Crossfire cover :D -

None of you guys get this concept which has worked plenty of other places... There is at least one of these bars in Columbus and their are several in Chicago. So the difference here between say the highland cafe which randomly has boardgames lying around with a few missing pieces and what I understand this bar is going for is focus. There is a pretty large tabletop gaming community, and for those who are into tabletop games but not willing to go to some specialty shop (see arkham game house for instance) to socialize over games, but perhaps a different atmosphere with the same quality of game selection you'd find a game store but in a hipper cooler environment one would get in OTR (and you can get beer too as a means of helping the social atmosphere). You're going to get the kind of focus on tabletop gaming you'd get from a game shop along with the cooler social atmosphere one would get with a bar in a hip neighborhood - it could even be sold as a date spot. This fits a niche. The reason for this bar existing is not hard to understand folks its not too much different from why barcades are a big deal even though many of us have game consoles and some old pizza places still have a few cabinets lying around. I think based on their promotion, outreach, and location they will be pretty successful too. (besides how many people are around 12th and vine waiting to get seated who may want to kill time by playing a game over a beer or too, there is a market beyond the core gamer market too).

I think that's pretty common across all of America. There's this notion that the cure to bad urbanism is "green." Just "green it up" add "open space" or "green space" and that will fix everything because density and buildings are bad. No doubt it is a common thing, however, most cities in America aren't as urban as Cincinnati is. The ones that are for the most part seem to take more pride in that urbanity (and those are generally only a handful of places).

Old school Cincinnati loves its parks more than its urban built form. While parks are important and Cincy has a good system, priorities are completely out of wack. Look at the BS up in Walnut Hills :/.

It looks nice for what it is but many of the station locations are not ideal. They are not in the center of commercial areas. A lot of them are in random, mostly residential areas. And I find it a bit odd that the terminal station in Santa Monica is in a somewhat random spot and they didn't decide to turn the line northward and get one more station in another part of the densest area of Santa Monica. Its a 2 blocks from the pier / 1 block from the mall / prominade. Its actually a pretty great location, though everything but the pier faces away from it because its new. I'll agree with you about other station locations though...

It also keeps better hours.

Art students still live above Taste of Belgium. I know a grad student who lives there....

Competitive when compared to cvg.... Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2