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I'm with OldMojo: Nooooooooo!!!!!! Cable-stayed bridges are everywhere now. If they want a distinctive design, they should look elsewhere. I vote for a slick deco/truss design akin to the Sydney Harbor bridge. Something stately that complements Cincinnati's historic character.

Michael, do you know what plans are for parking? If these places were all renovated and filled up, there's absolutely no way there'd be enough space on the stree for even half or a third of the residents. How is that going to be handled? Or is the issue a non-issue right now, and will be addressed at a hypothetical later date? BTW, if anyone's interested, there are photos of the area from 2004 about halfway down the first page of this thread...

^In other words, an abuse of their power. They presume to speak for their constituents on matters they were not elected for, didn't run on, and have no power over. That kind of pomposity is what led me to vote against Alicia Reese in 2003...she was a disappointment anyway, but I'd never vote for someone who would presume to speak for me on matters they have no business in. Guess I'm a curmudgeon that way...

^Amen to that! It's a great location, and it's visually interesting from every angle. It could be such a great little community, could be a center of life that flows out into the surrounding community - instead, it's a lifeless hole that depresses the whole area. But wow, so much potential...

You have a link for that story?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Pass me what that guy is smoking. Hey, if that became part of the goal, maybe they'd give the building a public observation deck! Please, please, please, emulate those structures in that regard!

Our company posted the required signs on the doors, and let me just say, I wish there were a Legislative Aesthetics Committee that could review things like required signage...I'm assuming they put out a suggested sign that we just printed and put on the entrances, but Jesus, they're ugly and utilitarian and completely and utterly destroy any effect you're trying to make to welcome people into your place of business. U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi...gah. Or maybe requiring these grating signs for a period of time - say, a year or two, while folks get used to the new rules - and then sunsetting the Jarring-Ass-Sign provisions, and replacing them with smaller, less concussive versions...maybe a set of six acceptable color schemes, say...

Any idea what for?

I can say that, for myself, installing a gate of any kind would cause me boundless visceral hate for the entire project. This is the frickin' city. I understand cutting off access to close off a street to through-traffic for a host of reasons. But gating it, allowing access only to those we want to have access, while keeping others out? I would despise that.

Is that the place where the spotlight has been shining every night? I was occupied with driving, so I couldn't pinpoint it, but it was roughly that area...

DAAP: Dumpy and Disjointed. But I've never been inside - could be a whole new world!

Ink - they should show up when you hit the ALT key...

I use IE 7.0 at work, IE 6.0 at home on my PC, and Safari 1.0.2 on my wife's iBook...probably most of my time is spent on the iBook, but a good bit on the others as well...

Yeah, anything vintage! Oh, and I'm sorry, I forgot to thank you for that gem!

Definitely, Quimbob - please, please, please, a thread of these shots? Even if they're snapshots of people, just the details in the background would be so cool to see! Pretty please? I'd happily spring for a [insert beverage of choice] at the next meet in partial recompense for the unlimited coolness the thread would be!

Wow - what a game! Beating KC! WOW!!! Congratulations!!!

Brrr...that sure looks cold. Man, I ain't looking forward to that! I'm sitting in front of a fire right now!

"Jimbo Fisher" - that's an awesome name...

What about the cancer thing? I'd like that to stop.

Could it just be because they don't think they're just one or two pieces away from really competing? Like, you don't sign a 40-year-old center fielder when you're rebuilding on a multi-year horizon...but a 33-year-old veteran, with playoff experience (including winning a losing in a world series) who hit .292 last year? Sounds like a guy who can be a key ingredient to a rebuilding cycle...

I'd buy a Denorfia, just because...

And an end to racial strife? Oh, and no more cancer. Sorry...I'd like light rail as well...

It was a thread: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5954.0

From your title, I was trying to figure out why a radio station was involved in this, and then where WOAH broadcast from! I'm a little slow sometimes...

Amen...here's something I wrote back in December 2003: We made the mistake of trying to go to Kenwood Towne Center on Saturday afternoon. I was amazed - there was not a single parking space to be had. We spent probably fifteen minutes cruising around the lot along with dozens and dozens of other cars. This wasn't a question of not wanting to walk, it was a question of there being absolutely zero spaces, but two or three vehicles in every row, circling like vultures. Kenwood has 5,600 parking spaces (the lot that had been torn up on Montgomery Road was supposed to be opened by now - we didn't get to that side, so I don't know if that's the case - supposedly they weren't going to lose any parking</a> due to the redesign, though) - all filled to the gills. Just crazy - I can only imagine how many people were actually in the mall. The lines at checkout were probably horrifying. We ended up just leaving, dropping movies off at Blockbuster, then seeing a spot open up on the street near Hyde Park Square, browsed around a bit, got some lunch, then walked all the way to Rookwood...it was a great idea on the way there, but hefting back towels and sheets and sweaters and such was far less appealing on the 3/4 mile walk back to the car. ...I'd neglected to mention in that how damn long it took just to get out of the mall and back to parts south - surely a half hour, at least, just going down Kenwood from between Montgomery and Galbraith, back to I-71. Just straight-up gridlock. But yeah, it's downtown with the congestion issues, can't have shopping there!