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An update on things at City West: City West dispute heating up Business Courier - by Dan Monk Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 1:18pm EDT - Last Modified: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 1:29pm EDT They are a long way from friendly, the two sides battling for control of City West. The $200 million mixed-income housing community in the West End is caught up in legal controversies that pit the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority against The Community BuildersbizWatch , a Boston-based nonprofit. Both were involved in developing City West, which was an attempt to replace two of the city’s oldest low-income housing projects with a vibrant new neighborhood that would attract all races and income levels, home owners and renters.

^It's actually 585 feet away if they preserve the stop at 12th and Vine.

Groups can put out slates of whoever they want their members and sympathizers to vote for. It doesn't mean they are followed blindly.

It's still there and it's still open although Blockbusters closed a few months ago. Krogers seems to say the same thing every year: That they're going to start on the rebuild "this" summer. And nothing ever materializes.

There is already a zoning exemption for properties located along the streetcar route that reduces the parking requirements for new construction and renovations. More buildings can be saved if parking requirements are reduced. Maybe if the streetcar was already in place, they wouldn't need to take 1314 Vine for the garage.

Or they could build a streetcar...

I think your point is that it makes no sense to be a "single-issue" voter. But I think you have to remember which council members are serious about the streetcar (either for or against) and which ones are just using the issue to pander to their base.

If they want to save the buildings so badly, they should move them somewhere else and rehab them.

Here's a map of streetcar lines from 1925 that may help. http://homepage.mac.com/jjakucyk/Transit1/map70.jpeg

It's back! (Or so they say...) :-o Liberty Way project gains new life Written by Sue Kiesewetter Enquirer contributor LIBERTY TWP. - A proposed $500 million development at the Liberty Way intersection of Interstate 75 that could bring thousands of jobs - but has lain dormant for three years - may be revived. Developers have not given up on the Liberty Town Square, a mixed use project that would cover 110 acres with a cinema, luxury apartments, restaurants, offices and retailers. "It's just a matter of the economy coming back and giving us a little help," said Bob Hutsenpiller, president of Hutsenpiller Contractors Inc., a firm working with Miller Valentine and Columbus-based developer Steiner + Associates. Liberty Township Trustees on Monday approved a two-year extension on the preliminary plans for the project. Without the extension, approval would have expired next month.

That would make too much sense. Also this would allow FWW to convert into a large scale underground transit center and the ability to build on top of it.

Great photos Randy! #4 looks like it could be Main Street in OTR.

Great photos Sherman!!

A better flyer for the event: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=389125&id=161391477261092 Their website (still under construction): http://www.americancanbuilding.com/

I've changed the thread title with the hopes it draws more constructive debate and less comparison banter.

Add to this one. The whole thing was originally 2 condo towers and an office building anyway.

And there probably won't be for a while. At least on the office front. :(

Surprisingly there seems to be less parking in the current plan than in its previous incarnation: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,160.msg140168.html#msg140168 <----2006 http://cincinnati.com/blogs/developingnow/files/2011/06/Oakley-Station-Illustrative-Site-Plan-03-31-11.pdf <----2011

Read the latest Banks Project Monthly Report Here: http://thebankspublicpartnership.com/sites/default/files/MonthlyReport_MayDRAFT3.pdf

WVXU did a segment of Impact Cincinnati interview focusing on the Banks project and the Riverfront park: http://www.wvxu.org/impact/impact_archiveview.asp?ID=6/16/2011 Looks like they plan on starting the above ground part of Phase II (the block west of the Freedom Center) after the parking garage is competed.

Nice Pics Sherman!

Impressive! I think the Highline's a great adaptive re-use. But honestly, do the models come with phase II??? :-P

Don't count on anything significant west of I-75 until the rebuild is competed. Hopefully they narrow parts of the interstate in Queensgate to allow for decking.

^Ha! Try loading a game off a tape drive of an Atari 800!!! You had to wait for the whole thing to play into the computers tiny little memory.

But selling a narrative is important. That's the thing the Enquirer is trying to do, scuttle the project by billing it as a waste. What supporters need is to sell the story of the benefits of the streetcar in a way that people can identify with. Facts and figures unfortunately don't do that, but selling the idea of what life can be like with the streetcar and even with a regional rail network, that can change minds.