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Yeah this has been a lot of anticipation for what's just going to be a short glass office building.

If I were vacationing in Arizona for the first time, I would stay in Sedona. It's interesting in its own right, and it's 2 hours from Scottsdale/Phoenix, 2 hours from the Grand Canyon. I am going to Phoenix in a month to see my boyfriend and HE doesn't even like it. (He lives in Tempe.) I would never go there otherwise. Everything everyone has said here about it is pretty accurate.

It is perhaps not a random act of the universe that his name has "tool" in it.

This is pretty much what my company was. Except that we got 2 weeks to start, which they touted as being incredibly awesome and generous, and a big reason to work for them. America is crazy.

You got it.

That courthouse addition looks like a giant child came over and tried to copy his father's work.

Amazing. (Amazing)2 Every time I trudged across a snowblasted parking lot outside a strip mall in Warren County, with the excitement brewing in anticipation of the 20 minutes I got to spend sitting on Mason Montgomery, I couldn't help but think fondly of Warren County's innovative county government.

If this information is accurate, then something about this block is just not attractive to developers for residential. To be honest, if I were a developer I'd probably be much more excited about riverfront, OTR and east downtown opportunities.

Oooh look, density! Thanks!

Here we have the actual, tiny, fringe minority of ultra liberals. These are the people that the FOX News movement has somehow scared America into thinking make up half the population. In reality I've met maybe three of them in my lifetime. Meanwhile, the "heartless rich people" redeveloping the neighborhood are probably 90% Obama supporters. Sad, frustrating, fascinating all at once.

That will be a huge improvement in quality over the first phase.

When I follow projects like The Banks I remind myself that our national economy is not exactly robust. It's a great time to build if you've got the money, but nationally our long-term growth prospects are still iffy and we have a lot of debt. Urban core growth might be very real, but so are these macro problems.

You might be talking about some medical office space being wedged along the triangle of land on the 71 Northbound ramp?

It's like a mini-mt. adams... how many douchebag bros are there in Cincinnati? Hundreds of square miles of quaint, provincial little suburbs cranking out kids into fairly conservative parochial and public high schools. I would respectfully argue that Cincinnati is one of the most efficient producers of bro's in the country.

Honestly I don't think he's corrupt or anything like that. I think he came in naive and smitherman pounced on that. Sillyman saw a weakness and turned him.... Like he's done with many others.. And now look what he's become. A regular on Brian Thomas and 700wlw. It's only a matter of time before he's speaking at COAST rallies. I respectfully disagree, Sittenfeld was politically calculating from the beginning. He took great care not to take any positions on nearly any issue, particularly controversial issues (especially the streetcar). I believe that he planned to go right from the very start and use City Council as a launching pad to run for a higher office in the future. This. It's pretty obvious.

I don't know if somebody got nasty or what, but the Enquirer has already erased all of the comments that were posted on that article already. It was just COAST and a few other of their screen names yelling 'boondoggle'. The media in this town is so predictable. Faux outrage and then the Enquirer creating a false equivalency through a Horstman article designed to get hits. After these two steps, let AM radio take over This is how its going to play out. -As usual Fox19, WKRC, WCPO, and WLWT will be late to the game and write a shabby article giving way too much weight to Cranley/Smitherman/Winburn/COAST -Dusty Rhodes will write an unfunny tweet -Tom Luken will write a LTE thursday or friday -Cranley will write an opinion piece, probably the same one word for word that Thomas used on his blog and give it to the enquirer -Smitherman, Cranley and/or Finney will be on 55KRC the rest of the week. Then they will be on Bill Cunningham and/or Scott Sloan thursday and friday. Saturday morning 1 of the two will be on Darryl Parks and/or That Lisa Wells show -Barry Horstman will write a article Monday suggesting something shady and possibly illegal is going on to outrage the suburbanites Watch it unfold It is fascinating how this small group of men run this little sideshow. Tragic that so many people call Cincinnati's elected council the "circus."

Someone like John would have to chime in on this.

When I'm back in Cincy, this is one of the first places I'm curious to try. I hope she succeeds.

I am looking forward to trying Mahogany's. We tried Crave for lunch. It was acceptable, but nothing about it was memorable.

I didn't know people even really read TV station websites...

1. San Francisco 2. Washington, DC 3. Cincinnati 4. Asheville, NC 5. Miami 1. Paris 2. Sydney 3. London 4. Lubeck, Germany 5. Stockholm

They do build the outer limit of the First Amendment brick by brick, don't they?

So, are you going to tell us? I honestly don't know the reason. I think it is mostly poor management but maybe also because of how the financing was originally arranged, that it could only be profitably managed for a 10 year period. The other problem with these properties is that the storefronts were converted to residences and that is staying. It makes absolutely no sense to have a bedroom in a first floor storefront window facing Vine Street. But that is a legacy of the original funding which was from the Federal Government and was for residential only, not mixed use. America has a distressingly large ratio of commercial floor area to residential. I've often wondered how we would sustain converting all of OTR back to its ground-level-storefront original use without addressing the larger issue of miles and miles of decaying retail land use along most of the region's state routes. Do we even need one floor of commercial activity for every 2 or 3 floors of residential, with our modern small household size? I doubt it. Probably more of a function of reduced household sizes and increased home square-feet than a radically reduces need for retails square-feet per capita.

Ohio minimum wage = 7.70/hour at 40 hours a week, that's $308 a week, averaging out to $1,334.67 a month. Before tax, of course. After tax you're looking at maybe $1050. Maybe. Fair market rate for Hamilton County for an efficiency is $471. You now have under $600/month to pay utilities, buy clothes, feed yourself, pay for medical expenses, try to save, et cetera. Now try to imagine raising a kid on minimum wage, where the fair market rent for a 1BR is about $560 a month and for a 2BR is about $720 a month. I'm not saying that there haven't been problems with the way subsidized housing has been handled, but that fact doesn't change the very real need for subsidized housing. Subsidized housing is better for our city than increased amounts of homeless folks, no? Moreover, the dream for OTR for a very long time has been a mixed-income neighborhood. I think you can't currently have that without subsidized housing if you want the exterior quality of the buildings to be up to snuff across the neighborhood. If you don't have the money, don't have a kid. You don't have a constitutional right to reproduce. This country's social policy is stuck in the gear of crazy. We treat substance abuse as a crime instead of a health issue, we dole out social assistance to people because they reproduce irresponsibly, the people who are responsible enough to use birth control end up lowering their own reproduction rate below replacement, people who pay for health insurance are usually subject to copays that deter them from frivolous use of limited health resources...meanwhile we offer no-copay medicaid clinics and no-refusal emergency rooms to a population that uses it superfluously. I could go on. But I'll just get my post off-topic'd.

I have to agree. In Cincinnati, at least, it totally changed the entire feel of the city. People walking down the street on their lunch break in sunny suburban office parks...in February.