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Off hand I think it was around 750 or so.

Queen City parking garage to open Feb. 1 An expanded parking garage at Great American Tower at Queen City Square will begin monthly parking at the start of February. The garage will add more than 1,600 new parking spaces. Ampco System Parking, manager of the parking garage, currently is accepting requests for monthly parking contracts that would start in February. Read more: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2011/01/14/queen-city-parking-garage-to-open-feb-1.html

How many buildings? Just those 3?

Is the Johnny Rockets at Newport on the Levee still there?

Why you should be riding the Metro By Krista Ramsey January 14, 2011 At the 11th hour, police officers' and firefighters' jobs were spared in the new city budget. Metro bus service wasn't. Last year's cut to the system resulted in a 12 percent reduction in services. The new city budget scrapes an additional $1 million off Metro's skin-and-bones budget. Cutting public transportation may not tug at heartstrings or draw protesters to budget hearings, but make no mistake: Lack of commitment to a comprehensive system is one of Greater Cincinnati's fatal flaws. Good public transportation is crucial to economic recovery. Metro should be expanding to support job growth and worker retraining. Instead it is contracting. Citizens wonder how they can help resolve economic problems. With Metro, it's easy. They can ride.

Over a year later, the waiting continues...

^^^^Some of these properties are currently being renovated into some cool loft style apartments!

Can anyone confirm if this project is 100% completed or are there more planned phases?

Bump. We should be putting Mercer Commons related information here. I will merge from Gateway Quarter thread soon.

Discussion about City West has been moved to the City West thread: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,1743.msg536165.html#msg536165

They allow busking on certain city streets at certain times. I forget where and when but in general there are a few streets downtown where they can perform during the day.

^ Cool!

Looks like something is going on at the old Sully's spot downtown: a new bar at 7th and Race?

More info on Japps reopening here: Mixologist Molly Wellmann To Open Own Place It's really all about the experience. That's the first thing out of Molly Wellmann's mouth as she talks about her new bar. Wellmann, who has a dedicated following of imbibers in Cincinnati, is opening a bar in the old Japp's space at 1134 Main Street in Over-the-Rhine in early summer. She's keeping the name Japp's, but intends on bringing something different to the Queen City. "This is going to be classy but unpretentious," says Wellmann. "I won't have a single TV in the place. It's all about the liquor and the conversation."

They will have all the Oklahoma classics including freedom fries! :laugh:

The article mentions they're having some difficulty coming up with the wording of their charter amendment. If I recall, Issue 9 was worded to encompass all rail because it was hard for them to define "streetcar" without including all forms of rail transit. I assume they are running into the same challenge again. Either way, once the contracts are signed then the project is grandfathered and when gas is $4 this spring, I think another way of travel will be on everyone's mind.

I forgot to put one of these :-P after that. :-(

Wasteful spending for a tower that will cause office vacancy rates to increase in downtown!

Makes sense until they figure out what they want to do with it.

It is planned to some degree. Years ago when the Sierra Club was heavily opposing the highway bridge over the Little Miami, the biggest concern was the indirect expansion of I-74 to the east side. These projects seem innocent as separate entities but what would stop it from being designated a Federal Highway in the future in order to get federal funding? Either way, the plan is to make this route highway grade more or less, designating it as I-74 eventually makes it easier to improve and maintain.

Not till 1/11/11 at 11:11AM!!

These are from 12-31-2010:

We've pinned success in this country for too long on the "growth, growth, growth," model that now we are suffering from a 30 year oversupply of single family housing and now commercial retail space. This is the long term price this country is paying for endless unsustainable expansion.

Hey how about we talk about the Banks a bit more instead of placing bets on how far off topic we can take the discussion? Thanks!!

The proposed alternative (which took years off lobbying the ITE to adopt). http://www.ite.org/bookstore/RP036.pdf