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Honestly, it still baffles me that one small item in this whole news story is being used to paint West Chester in a bad light.....no public transportation. Anything to make West Chester look bad. Well, have at it you guys. I'm sure if a cow farted out here, it would cause a car to fly off a cliff in France. Enjoy your website. I have no use for it anymore. Go ahead and cancel my membership.

LOL! Rando, I REALLY have to laugh at your obvious oversight in really READING the news article. I mean, come on - DID you read it? West Chester did NOTHING to invite these workers to the area. They were originally supposed to be in a hostel within a mile of the park. At the last moment, without the opportunity to let the workers know, Kings Island made arrangements for them to be placed in a complex in West Chester. According to YOUR logic, if a community invites me to come live there, it should be responsible for taking care of my transportation needs - is that what you're saying? Oh....don't lie to me. These workers did NOT live on UC's campus previously. This is a first-time experience for them. Nice try, though, trying to make me look like a fool. I'm not an idiot......well, actually I AM an idiot - for coming to this pathetic website all the time, and putting up with the jealousy of everyone who just can't stand West Chester, period. It's really quite sad. Everyone in Cincinnati wants us to respect them, but they don't respect us. Amusing. Quite amusing.

Hold on a second. West Chester isn't against public transportation. It's just that the Cincinnati bus system only runs an express route out here during rush hour. But that's not West Chester's fault. They need to get more routes out here. Regardless, I don't see how West Chester should be made to look like the bad guy in all this. It sounds like KI messed up - not West Chester. Let's keep this in perspective, okay?

Oh come on, Sandusky isn't that bad. It certainly doesn't suk at least. ;-) LOL! Sorry, just a bit of humor at your spelling. No offense intended. Anyway, I'm sure the Enquirer probably just.....well, I don't know what it just. The more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense to refer to Columbus as "upstate". Granted, down here we always refer to Dayton as "up in Dayton" and Columbus as "up in Columbus". Same with Cleveland and Toledo, but the way they have their headline worded just makes it sound weird. Then again, I've never heard of Cleveland as "the north coast". I mean, as if there is a south coast. I hardly look at the Ohio river as a "coast". A shore maybe, but not a coast. So why not simply refer to Cleveland as being on Ohio's only coast. Oh well, ignore me.....I'm just rambling.

Cynical...? How so? I hope I haven't gone and made yet another fool of myself by posting a stupid comment.

Getting off the subject of the building designs....I saw something really cool on the news this evening. In New York, they have created a waterfall coming out of a building and pouring into the harbor right next to it. They also have a sheet of water coming from below the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge, right next to the support. How cool would it be to do something similar in the park portion of the Banks?

Okay, so if it's all up to the developer and city to finalize what the project will look like, why bother getting input from the public? Rando: When I talk about plans for a specific parcel, I thought the blueprints and design of the building were crucial to the shape and size of the foundation and where footings will be placed. When ground was broken for GAI, they already had the blueprints drawn up. We know what the building will look like. I thought groundbreaking was the start of the digging process so that the foundation and footers could be constructed. THAT'S all I'm talking about. Is groundbreaking a different term that relates to something else?

This is probably a stupid comment, but.....define "suburbs". I lived in Price Hill from 1965-1972, and then moved to Delhi between 1972-1986. Does that count as living in the city? I mean, Delhi isn't part of the city, but it's also not the suburban sprawl that so many people talk about. I later moved to Oakley, which was equally as far from downtown as where I lived in Delhi. From Oakley, I moved to West Chester. My dad lived out here when I needed a place to stay, and I'm kinda stuck here for now. If I were to move back to the city, where is the dividing line between the suburbs and the city? Sorry...stupid questions, I'm sure.

Aww, now come on - don't tongue lash me too hard. I'm all for the Banks. Perhaps no I don't know anything about project development. I didn't realize this was an ongoing design thing. I thought the designs WERE already finished for this. I was under the assumption that once ground breaking took place, it meant the plans were finalized for that specific parcel. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It may not logically make sense to me, but whatever. As for thinking Northern Kentucky is Paris, I'm not sure where anyone got those words to insert into my mouth. I'm not anti-Cincinnati. I'm anti-"lack of imagination". What I meant regarding the Ascent is that it is unique architecture that has been nationally acclaimed. It gets a bunch of praise in the news. What kind of praise are a bunch of low-rise red brick buildings going to receive? None, if you ask me. Yes, they are short and squatty.....meaning, they remind me of a bunch of legos stacked on top on one another. That's all I meant.

I can't comprehend how they don't have the final plans already done for this thing. I mean, at this stage of the game, shouldn't they be showing us what it will actually LOOK like, instead of just conceptual drawings? I mean, how many sets of "conceptual drawings" do they have to show the public in order to give us "an idea" about how it will look. Just show us the final plans, for crying out loud. THAT'S what the public wants to see. Besides, haven't they done the groundbreaking already? How could they do that without already having the blueprints in place. With that off my chest, I have to honestly say those renderings are horrid. And quite frankly, EXACTLY what I expected we'd see when they first proposed the project 10 some-odd years back. I KNEW we weren't going to end up with anything special to look at, and I was right. People didn't listen to me back then. Oh well......Cincinnati always wastes its potential on short squatty red-brick buildings. Why does Covington get modern architecture, and we get this nonsense?

Wow. I used to live in one of those brick buildings on Allendale in the early 90's. Funny how things have changed around there. I'm not sure about Van Lieu's comments, though. It's not like a park around there. The buildings are close together, parking is a mess, and it's a lot longer to downtown than 5 minutes. Nevertheless, it looks like an interesting project.

It does sound good, doesn't it Ronnie? Except when you look at how that entire section is already developed, so there will never be a building of significant height built there. How convenient that the opportunity existed for so long, and look what we ended up with. Not to mention....that height limit of 1050 ASL comes out to be under 500' above street level where QCS2 is slated to go up. Wonder how they got away with THAT one.

I may be wrong, but don't the outlet malls basically carry overstocks and old/outdated merchandise that is being discontinued? Oh wow....I had other posts, and this is showing as the first one I've made here. Hmmmmm.