Jack

you are correct...it isn't totally accurate...but thanks for the info!

I believe the new building without the crown will be slightly shorter than Carew, but each individual floor height is higher than the Carew Tower's floors. Also I believe the 41 floors include 11 garage floor, but I am not absolutely certain about this. Randy, do you know?

The total height, according to Eagle Realty is 660ft.

About 700 concrete trucks will be deiivering concrete from between 2 am and 2 pm this Sunday to the site, to create a 6-foot thick concrete mat for the tower. Getting more excited each day!

Rob Alpern says he hopes to have up and running a web site devoted exclusively to QCSII by the end of January.

My apologies to Rob: His last name is Alpern, not Alporn

I got the following from Rob Alporn: A tiny bit of the concrete has already been poured. The huge continuous pour for the mat footing is scheduled to occur Friday night Jan 16 but may need to get postponed if the temperatures are too cold. Then the subterranean garage begins to rise from the bottom under the office tower. Steel will start once the concrete gets to grade-level...in the spring. Meanwhile the northern garage portion is on a different time schedule and it's concrete will begin later.

Those Cincinnati/Cleveland population figures (2006) are obviously out of date. Mallory claims Cincy's pop is 378,000, and that the metro pop is now the largest, when Ky and IND regions are included.

Thanks for the pictures!!

Watching the Banks construction is as fun as watching paint dry. (no offense, just a joke)

The article in today's Enquirer: I did not know that complete financing had not been approved until now!

Does anyone know when construction will begin on the Phase I garages?

According to the schedule released in the Enquirer earlier this year "vertical construction of building begins in early 2009."

Can you tilt the camera a little higher so we can see the entire building? Thanks for showing us these scenes!

I understand there wiil be a webcam sometime after Dec1.

Great work --great photos!

Any new pics of the site@

amen!!

Can anyone tell me the progress the city has made in getting funding for the streecar project? Also, what is the latest in regard to the potential use of the abanded subway?

The former CEO said the same thing to me about 15 years ago: no Bloomingdales.

Yes, it seems af if Cincinnati (at least until recently) was always behind the curve. The Banks should have begun years ago.

Does anyone know if the financial crisis will have any implact on the QCSII development schedule? (or the Banks project?)

Here is the latest: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 8:43 AM EDT Commissioners to OK Banks expenditures http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/09/22/daily27.html Business Courier of Cincinnati Hamilton County Commissioners are expected to authorize a $6.1 million expenditure on Wednesday for the Banks riverfront development project, money that county officials expect will be reimbursed by the city of Cincinnati and two state loans that have yet to close. The spending resolution on the commissioners' agenda would provide cash to fund a $5.2 million contract with Richard Goettle Inc., which won a bidding competition to drill auger cast piles for a two-story garage that will serve as the foundation for apartments, retail and other developments in the project's first phase. The resolution also provides just over $900,000 to pay for consultants and cover the salary of John Deatrick, the project executive in charge of the Banks.

IT would simply be great if Cincinnati could show the rest of the country that it can move foreward on many fronts including using the subway!! (is this the subway that Billy Batson used to become Captain Marvel of the comic strips?! ):

Dave Prather (Banks) said that my suggestion of having a live webcam at the Banks park project was a good one and that he would look into the possibility.