Cincykidbc1

Noone would have to worry about traffic if we all lived closer to where we worked. :-D Not trying to be a dick, but it's true. You can try to convince me otherwise, but I know better. I live less than 2 miles from where I work. I'm kinda lucky for that. Just thought I'd rub it in a little. :wink: BTW- I understand that some people have jobs in which they are not in the same place all the time, so I understand it's not always that easy.

LOL, for some strange reason, I thought of 'Grease 2' when I read that. That is exactly what I think would be a better fit here. I was refering more about retail: corner store's , clothing stores, etc. That is what I think of when people say retail. If others idea of retail includes offices and such, then my bad, guess I misunderstood

That's what I'm saying. I might be missing the point, but a lot of people seem to be obsessed with retail when their is a project around here. A 'Starbuck's' does sound nice, but I'm thinking " do I really want to open a shop here where there is not a lot of foot traffic right now, and there is also the possibility that I would get robbed once a month?" :shoot: I would have to agree with Haynes on that one. Not that anyone really cares.... :roll:

It might take a miracle to get past the first hurdle.

Next Week. :drunk:

O.K. that's good enough, now let's blow the garage up and get started on Phase 2! :-D :clap:

OH MY GOD!!! This is freakin hilarious. It's always something with this place. Man it makes me want to SCREAM!!! If I park in a parking garage to attend a big event, I expect to have to wait in line to get out. They must have a lot of parking garages with 5 exits in Virginia. Most of the parking garages that I have ever parked in, no matter what city I was in, only had one exit. If you end up being the 999th person in line to get out then that's your bad. Plus, I thought the Transit Center would be where the exit would be placed. I'm probably assuming wrong. But if am was right, then wouldn't that provide a clear shot to get out seeing as how it's not really being used right now anyways?

I agree, if they DIDN'T build it, the same guy would be complaining that they should have built it during construction of FWW, when it does come time to use it more efficiently.

Hello its me, I was just daydreaming again. I wonder if it would be possible ( I don't see why not ) if the people of Cincinnati and Hamilton County could create our own organization or council or whatever to represent directly what we want, which is for these two governments to stop bitching at each other over everything ( and I do mean everything ) that comes up in this city. Call it a revolution of sorts. Sometimes as taxpayers we forget that we are the ones who pay these guys. As a Cincinnati resident, I pay both Cincinnati city taxes and Hamilton County taxes. Needless to say, I feel very cheated on every situation that involves both governments. Have they ever seen eye-to-eye? I would call 'THE BANKS' project (and just about every other project that these two governments have wasted our time and money) a gross mishandling of our funds. Don't people go to court over such things? Since we are the reason they get paid, this new People's Council would reside over BOTH governments. Not really as their bosses but just to remind them of who they are working for, to ride their ass hard until something is done, and to work as a broker of sorts in situations like THE BANKS. I know it is a long shot, but hey I am a dreamer and dreaming is what I do. :-D

Dear all Governments in the OKI Metro area, Since all Metro area municipalities in our great OKI region are affected and benefit from each others development's in all three of our states, I am hereby asking all of you to merge into one big SUPER-CITY so as to prevent a viasco such as 'The Banks' project in Cincinnati to ever happen again. This way, we would only have one government deciding what to do about development's in this very proud region. Hopefully, this would stop the bickering, lessen the tax burden, and maybe you guys could get some shit done around here. Sincerely your endless dreamer and town drunk, Cincykidbc1

County government ownes the property. City government ownes the air rights. Citizens of Cincinnati own a sore butthole from being screwed on the whole deal. :-o

O.K. O.K., I did seem very one sided on my last post. But this is war man!!! :shoot: All kidding aside, I'm all for Metro too. I totally agree that developments on both sides of the river benefit both sides. As a matter of fact, I dream of a day ( maybe 50 years from now when I am 80 ) when Downtown Cincinnati stretches across I-75 and I can eat dinner at a restaurant at THE BANKS facing a beautiful skyline located in NKY. It'll never happen, but one can dream. Imagine the view you would get on the approach to Cincinnati on Northbound I-75 if thier were skylines on both sides of the river. NKY just chaps my ass sometimes. Let me give an example: Remember that decommissioned ( spelling ) nuclear submarine named 'U.S.S. CINCINNATI' that Cincinnati was trying to get docked on the riverfront? ( I don't know whatever happened to that plan ). Anyway, it only took NKY a couple days until they started recommending that it be placed on the Kentucky side. I don't know if they were trying to help or not. Frankly I don't care. The submarines name was not U.S.S. COVINGTON or U.S.S. NEWPORT. It's name is U.S.S. CINCINNATI and in belongs on the Cincinnati side. It might be petty thinking but that's how I feel. The whole issue is probably dead now making this argument moot. That either made sense or it didn't. I could just be retarded.

I devil in me just wanted to add a little fuel to the fire on this whole Cincy vs. NKY thing. Now I could be totally wrong in what I'm going to say and anyone who wants to correct me, please do....just make sure that your right or you'll be the one looking silly :wink: I'm going to add to where Monte started. Not only has NKY ( I think it goes more for Newport than Covington ) constantly tried to lure jobs and people to their side, they most recently stepped over the line IMO when they tried to lure tennant's from FINDLAY MARKET. I know it's healthy for the growth of a city to lure company's and improve tax base and yadayadayada.... But my question is, why do they have to try to lure the stuff from the city right across from them? And also ( correct me if I'm wrong ) the idea for the NEWPORT AQUARIUM came after groups from New Jersey and Houston both made proposals to build an Aquarium in Downtown Cincinnati in 1996. Of course they screwed the pooch on that and Newport ran with it . It's really a shame too because I think the Aquarium proposed for Cincinnati was to be twice as big as the one that's in Newport. And one more. ( correct me if I'm wrong on this one too ) Strangely, after a proposal in 1997 for 'THE BANKS' came out, a proposal for a place called NEWPORT ON THE LEVEE came out around 1998 looking awfully similar to the 'THE BANKS' just much smaller in scale. Now I guess in NKY's defence, while Cincinnati gets the ideas and the diddles with themselves over it, NKY is actually getting them done. Remember the MILLENIUM MONUMENT that was supposed the be built in Newport? Maybe the only reason it wasn't built is because it wasn't proposed for Cincinnati first.

I was at the Reds game today. I sat in the SUN-DECK ( in right field ). It directly faces QCS. Anyway, I kept looking up, trying to imagine that Phase 2 was already build. I could almost see it towering over the stadium like it was really there. I don't care what anybody says, I saw it in my mind and I think it's going to be AWESOME. :clap:

I've been thinking about that strip in front of GABP too. I think I mentioned in another post somewhere that I thought they could do something really cool there. (Or at least something that I thought would be cool.) I was thinking that if they had to build a new flood wall there or even if they didn't, that it would be cool to have a huge lighted sign or lighted letters inside the wall ( or outside the wall ) spelling CINCINNATI or QUEEN CITY or even YEATMAN"S COVE. I thought it might look neat from the Kentucky side. I don't know, maybe it's cheesey. You could rip me on it if you want, it won't hurt my feelings. I was also thinking that they could kinda go historical and place a tavern called 'SQUARE AND COMPASS' by Main St. The original SQUARE AND COMPASS was owned by Griffin Yeatman whom Yeatman's Cove is named after.

This is exactly what I was saying about Government Square. This is getting really stupid now. Give me a pencil and paper. I'll use the original plans as a guideline. After my sketch Ill get to work on my MAYA software and BOOM, DONE. A month at tops. And that's in my SPARE TIME. I'm not trying to sound like I'm an artist or designer or anything, but I'm getting really impatient about this freaking project. A year to design a parking garage that's probably going to be 2 levels in most spots? Give me a break. Two years to build it? NO WAY!! If this takes 3 years I'll go down there with a shovel and bags of concrete and start on it myself. Anyone with me? :drunk: O.K. I feel better now that I got that off my chest. You know, we'll probably wait 5 more years after the garages are done to see anything built on them. And then they'll probably end up putting one of those cheap steel buildings there.

Thanks PigBoy!!! I think. My brain hurts now. :-P

Wait a minute. I'm a little lost. All of a sudden everyone's pointing fingers at Cincinnati for not getting this stuff done. I know the Cincinnati side of the purple people bridge is their fault. But isn't the Suspension Bridge and the new I-75/I-71 Bridge the responsibility of Kentucky? ODOT will most likely help out with the new Brent Spence, but the Suspension Bridge seems to be Kentucky's baby. Now if the OHIO River belonged to OHIO like the name entitles...... I never understood that crap. It's called the OHIO River, but belongs to Kentucky. What was it? Compensation to the south?.... Hey we feel bad and all for you guys losing the war and everything.....Here, take our river!!! :-D

Oh well, I quess that means that P&G will just have to build a 1000 foot tall expansion tower so they can be seen again. :-D

Have any of you ever watched a pro baseball take three strikes without even swinging the bat? And you think to yourself, I could have done that for a million dollars!! Or have you watched a pro quarterback throw a stupid pass that gets intercepted? And you think to yourself, I could have done that for a million dollars!! My point is, someone got paid a lot of money to come up with this very simple design. Most of us probably could have done the same. Sure it looks a lot better (IMO). But given how long we waited for a design I was expecting something you could launch the Space Shuttle from. Man, I'm in the wrong business.

It almost suck just as much if you were on the street below and one fell over and dumped all that crap on you. O.K. this is just nasty. Remind me not to walk under the the Porta-Potties when I go to the REDS game on Wednesday.

If anyone wants a set of these lights, I just saw them at a clearance sale at Wal-Mart. $2.99 a set. They were in the outdoor section in camping supply's. But it probably cost the city $200,000.

My Prediction: UC 132 - UK 35 :evil:

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP!!!!!!! Let us have our freakin casinos and everyone will see what it can do for all of us. If you don't like casinos then don't go to the damn things. Don't ruin it for everyone else. This public service announcement is directed to Ohio Legislators.

No, it's only the people that seem to focus more on the NEGATIVE than on the positive. NEGATIVE:- Not the design that everyone dreams about or see's on sci-fi movies. Oh well, I quess we'll have to get over it. - Doesn't have retail. So what?! Why does everything have to have retail? I don't get it. POSITIVE:- One less open lot downtown and they'll get rid of one of those ugly ass parking garages. - Phase 2 will become the tallest building in Cincinnati. I think I can live with the negative's on this one. I admit that I am NOT an expert on these kinds of things. I'm an average person making a modest wage printing labels for Jim Beam. I will base my opinion as such. There are just those people who think that they're experts on every subject. I just read the crap and roll my eyes. Here's my opinion on QCS: I think it's fine. True, it's not spectacular but I'm not picky. I can't wait till 2007. Maybe the IN-BETWEEN TAVERN can move into QCS so that that site can developed sometime in the future. I will add that they might want to think about developing the top floors into Condo's or Penthouse's and adding an observation deck. (That's just my opinion.)