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This thread is getting toxic. Please make sure you're making rational, fact based arguments about the income tax, wealth, etc. Thanks!

I don't have all the details to form the full timeline but initially the Port was charged with developing the site, then the Port partnered with 3CDC. Then they selected Corporex to do the development portion of the project. That fell through some time around 2005/2006. Afterwards the Banks Working Group was organized. They selected Carter/Dawson after a national search. The master development agreement was approved and then work finally started around 2008/2009.

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2004/02/23/daily45.html

Yeah it sucks. Walnut will probably be done with major construction by the end of the year. Main will finish up in middle of 2015 according to the track laying schedule.

3CDC was the developer and they didn't get it done.

One day we will stand at the western edge of the park and wonder why there's such a big parking lot across the street.

Maybe they are holding out for Shake Shack!

I find the lack of construction for Phase II of the Banks offensive. What is the hold up!!!?

The image does move very fast so its hard for the casual person to actually notice the error. I'm sure those that did catch it just would assume it was some image associated with another part of Cincinnati. I'm willing to bet we'd find that skyline in the popular San Diego section of Cincinnati. :-P Hopefully along with its weather!

So a Kroger Marketplace is going to be the "highest and best use" for a prime piece of real estate at a high exposure corner in the city? Are we taking our economic development cues from Newport?!

Osborne is apparently filling the same role Jason Barron had for Mallory.

In order to get the pdf to display you have to download it and then open it.

They need to re-examine the entire project and its not just because VMT's are declining. Since dunnhumby is relocating that building at Central and 3rd can now be demolished meaning the ramps can be tightened to further narrow the highway's bloated footprint on the western edge of downtown.

Once the property closes the city is going to pursue a marketing study to help determine what can go in the theater.

The Mayor of Bellevue just announced that the city is in contract to purchase the historic Marianne Theater on Fairfield Avenue!

EXCLUSIVE: Great American Tower on the selling block Western & Southern Financial Group subsidiary Eagle Realty Group is looking to sell Queen City Square, the more than 1 million-square-foot downtown office development that includes 303 Broadway and Great American Tower, the city’s largest office building. Great American Tower at Queen City Square is a 41-story, 805,000-square-foot, LEED Gold-certified office building. Completed in 2011, the tower is home to its namesake, Great American Insurance Group. Queen City Square tenants also include Frost Brown Todd LLC; KeyBank; Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease; Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc.; Lafayette Life Insurance Co.; IFS Financial Services, and Analytic Partners. Queen City Square is about 90 percent occupied, according to information from commercial real estate research firm Xceligent Inc.

^ Is there any reason why the downtown bound streetcar track cannot veer southwest from Kirk Alley, go under Clifton and use Ohio Ave to reconnect to Race Street?

Looks like this may be close to resolving in favor of moving the project forward: Pogue’s developer: We’ll pay to move Paragon: EXCLUSIVE Flaherty & Collins Properties, the developer that wants to tear down the Pogue’s Garage in downtown Cincinnati and build a 30-story apartment tower, is willing to take on the cost of moving the building’s only tenant, Paragon Salon. David Flaherty, CEO of Indianapolis-based Flaherty & Collins, said in the interest of getting the project moving forward, it would cover the cost of assisting Paragon with its move to a new location, taking the burden off the city. Mayor John Cranley said earlier this week that the city would not put another dollar into the project at the corner of Fourth and Race streets, even though it was up to the city to resolve the lease with Paragon, which ends in 2017.

To oppose every project that improves downtown so that in 2017, he can say, "I fought for the neighborhoods instead of wasting money downtown." True. Also, somehow I feel it has to do with his boosters and or future plans. He doesn't want the core to thrive, he wants to keep pleasing the outer ring. Which is kind of more in line with what you said. But what do you think of him being anti-urban and pushing a more suburban agenda to please voters on a possible future run for congress or senate? Cranley is not anti Downtown he is negotiating a new deal. Look at the great deal he got for his Price Hill Development. He has a new Client now. The one he still owes $70,000 on? I thought only Liz Rodgers doesn't pay her loans. I seriously doubt that Cranley owes $70,00 on a loan to the city. The LLC might owe that, but it just proves my point in the banks thread. Clowncil makes awful deals. Yeah and the decision to build a profitable railroad is also an "awful deal"... Next time try to back up your arguments, assertions and accusations with facts instead of colorful phrases. This thread is being watched. Thanks!

The elimination of the director position in the Planning Dept. is a backdoor way to merge the department with another one, most likely Trade & Dev. It's 2002 all over again... Oh and Winburn proposed exploring selling the city's railroad operation and spinning off the Water District (which was blocked by a COAST charter amendment in 2009. So if it were to happen it would have to go to a vote.)

Word on the street is that an email went out prohibiting parking on the west riverfront parking deck starting at the end of March to monthly pass holders.

It all strangely goes back to that endorsement editorial they wrote on him....

^He's the Enquirer's meteorologist.

Building a skybridge to Burnet Woods is a very antiquated "solution" to the pedestrian safety issues at that intersection. What needs to happen is some serious traffic calming at the Clifton/MLK intersection.

I was out and about this morning taking some pics of the neighborhood: See more on Flickr.