RiverViewer

Bumping a fantastic thread...say, any chance you could fix the broken picture links?

Didn't get a picture last night, but I looked at it, and the text on the right side is just a listing of the selling points - like: Security: 24 hour keyless entry Smoke detectors/sprinklers DeathBot Patrol Amenities: Spacious Views Breathtaking Closets ...that kind of thing. No companies listed except Joshua One and Sibsy Cline, the current realtor. But if you emailed Joshua One with whatever specific questions you had, I bet you'd get a reply. My neighbor had called the realtor at one point, and got a call back a day or two later from the president of Joshua One - they're quite responsive...

Loads of utterly over-the-top commentary here: http://www.redreporter.com/story/2006/7/13/15430/5675#commenttop You get all sides on that one, no doubt...

Great update - thank you! Well, headed east on Eastern towards Collins, there's no space between the end of Twain's Point and the railroad bridge at the S-curve, because of that Kemper Lane extension. Maybe you could fit a something in that corner, but I don't know how much cost you'd add to handle that hillside. Then after the bridge, halfway to Collins, those railroad tracks run between probably 30 and 50 feet north of Eastern. I don't know how much clearance you need to leave for the tracks, but I know it would make any places built along there pretty shallow. Might not be a problem - a nice wide but shallow design that maximized river views might be a great concept - but it will definitely have to be dealt with. Looks like SORTA owns that land, up to the first house. Interesting...looking at the rest of Eastern Avenue, it looks like Betty Burns (who's a high-end realtor from East Walnut Hills) has been buying up land on Eastern Avenue for at least the last 25 years. I put in 1850 through 2350 Eastern in the auditor's site, and there's just a ton of places down there she's purchased. I. T. Verdin and Johnson Electric also own a bunch (the industrial stuff along the river), but I was surprised to see Betty Burns picking so much up. The dates span from 1981 up through last February. You wouldn't imagine someone would do that if they weren't figuring on something big happening there, eh? But if she started in the 80's, one wonders what horizon she has in mind...

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I don't see anything on either their website or http://www.theoverlookatedenpark.com that gives that detail. I'll try to remember to get a shot of it tonight for you.

We have a bread machine, actually, and it's great - it's a small one, uses one package of yeast to make a half-sized loaf, so it's ready in 45 minutes. Having homemade bread for breakfast isn't really possible - you can save time by doing the bulk raising in the fridge, but it's still a couple hours the next day before you can use it (slowly up to room temp, then punch it down, shape it, rest, let it rise, then bake it). With this machine, I mix the ingredients, turn it on, make coffee, surf the net, start breakfast, and everything's ready by the time my wife gets up. Wonderful. But obviously no substitute for real bread baking! Say, do you happen to have a recipe for the root beer? When I was a kid my great-aunt Sophie used to make root beer, and it was the most amazing stuff...the sharpness of it - the difference between Dad's and Barq's is the same as the difference between Barq's and Aunt Sophie's...I need to talk with my cousins, see if they have her recipe...definitely something I want to try!

If you read back through this thread, all that info's posted with history and everything. The main developer is Joshua One, who are also doing WatersEdge in Bellevue: http://www.joshuaone.com/

Oh good lord.

Any home-cooking foodies out there? Any of you ever bake bread using a starter? I'm hitting Day 5 in the barm creation cycle right now, and let me say, I had no idea how easy this was. The basic idea is that there's yeast bacteria that occurs naturally everywhere in the world. So you can bake bread using Instant Yeast (or fresh yeast or whatever else), or you can bake it using the natural yeast. Once you've got your starter dough, you use a little to bake with, then refresh what's left and keep it growing. There are bakeries with the same starter dough culture that they've used for hundreds of years...it's used to make sourdough, gives it that sour flavor, but can make tons of different kinds of bread. But how do you get starter dough? That was always a mystery to me...but it's really simple - the yeast is already there, you've just gotta activate it. So you take maybe a cup of flour (any kind), mix in maybe 3/4 cup of water, then let it sit and think for a day. Next day, mix in another cup of high-gluten flour (Bread Flour) and half a cup of water, and let it sit for a day. Next day, take out half the dough, add in a cup of flour and half a cup of water. Next day, same thing. By the 2nd and 3rd day, the culture is rising every days. Smells like very strong beer... Then for your barm, you take a cup of the culture, a 3.5 cups of flour, 2 cups of water, mix 'er up, let it sit a few hours, then pop it in the fridge. You now have a starter dough. Tonight's my "make it into barm" day, then the fridge, then bread baking Friday night! I can't wait... I'll make sure to keep you all completely up to date, blow-by-blow, in this exciting adventure...

Definitely agreed...although, as much a step in the wrong direction as it would be, I've gotta say, it would be nice to have a Taco Bell that close to home - I've got to drive a long ways for Taco Bell right now (far side of Avondale, Norwood, Lower Price Hill, Newport), and having one just up the street aargh MMMPH ach! [screams and shouts while RiverViewer is dragged off by an Urbanist Assault Force]

Wow...wonderful...and those dresses are stunning...

...yeah, it's definitely a concern. And he's getting older, approaching retirement age...he certainly deserves a healthy dose of good luck after the assorted buyouts and resizings and such that have hit him over the years - but it's a great job, and hopefully it'll take him to retirement. Our fingers are crossed!

Ah...yeah, I'm moving slow today. Thanks!

Nobody said anything about what he did or didn't deserve...just that he was among the greatest...surely you don't dispute that!

I must be very unenlightened myself...no clue.

All you have to do is show the number 14, and I'm in fucking tears...and I wasn't even raised here...amazing. Go Reds!

No, I don't have any nature of boat. A canoe, that might make sense though... My wife is interested in kayaking now, though...the main question is how uncomfortable it is to sit crammed into that little kayak, legs out straight, that kind of thing...have you kayaked much?

So many buyouts and mergers lately...my father-in-law just got a job with a bank, and one of the big worries was if it was going to get bought out and his IT job outsourced...he had a choice between an Atlanta-based bank and a Columbus-based bank, and happily he chose Columbus...but every buyout story makes me wince... Nonetheless, thanks for posting the story!

I Got 99 Problems, but LeBron Ain't One? Or a different Jay-Z?

CVG has a 5.75 mile radius around it of Class A airspace, which basically means you ain't gonna get clearance to fly there. So roughly, draw an arc from Addyston through Cheviot through the Price Hills to Devou Park or so. All of that's a no-go. I guess we probably hit a little Lower Price Hill, but that's about it. And that's all a little rough - you need clearance even for the Class B airspace that covers the whole area around here. CVG's air traffic control was really nice to us, gave us a nice, long window at a nice altitude, and let us dance around in Northside and circle downtown and all that for a good while. But when it got up near 7:00 or so (I think - not certain on that), they had a bunch of arrivals scheduled and asked us to clear out of the general area - basically, to get north of the lateral or east of 75. We were basically done by then anyway, so that wasn't a problem. In short, we didn't hit the west side because we weren't able to, not because we didn't want to give it some huggin' and squeezin'!

Ooo...with lightening. And Christ, I'm glad we got rid of Riverfront Stadium. Ick.

Great flower shots! And buildings...

Are you taking photography requests, or hooking up a river tour? BTW, I looked around for history on the USS Nightmare, and couldn't find anything more than what might have been part of the back story, on the USS Mitchell or something... Oh, what's the PA Denny?

Hmm...crazy-valuable land, sitting for the time being as a vacant mud hole...you know what, I think the best way to solve this problem is for the city and the county to get involved!

One of the Viaducts?