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Sea of parking lots?

Now in 13th with 6,294 votes... This will be a tough one to win as Soudan Underground Mine State Park is blowing away all of the competition with a whopping 204,932 votes. No email address is needed to vote. It's just a matter of clicking and refreshing. Don't mean to be a debbie downer, but open polls like this don't really mean anything, and the $100,000 is negligible to the budget. If it were to win $1,000,000, it would be worth it to coordinate voting.

I don't believe that dollar amount is realistic.

Two cinemas say they will battle it out in Cincinnati Business Courier - by Tom Demeropolis, Courier Staff Reporter Date: Friday, July 8, 2011, 6:00am EDT - Last Modified: Friday, July 8, 2011, 9:15am EDT Two state-of-the-art theaters are set to be built two miles apart in Oakley and Norwood. The projects will add 32 big screens to Cincinnati’s center, at a time when theaters are working harder to pull in visitors. Yet the operators and developers for both projects say they are moving forward with their plans. Jeffrey R. Anderson Real Estate Inc. of Norwood and Lansing, Mich.-based Neighborhood Cinema Group are scheduled to start construction before the end of the year on a 65,000-square-foot, 16-screen cinema announced in April at Rookwood Exchange. That’s planned as a $100 million project in Norwood with ... http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2011/07/08/two-cinemas-say-they-will-battle-it.html

Parked on top of my Target in Orlando. Got so used to it, it felt provincial to use a grocery with a front lot.

To me the single most important aspect of a city feeling large and important is... Pedestrian activity. We are human beings first and foremost. The apparent activity of other human beings will always be the foundation of our impression that we are somewhere important.

They'll just call it Riverfront Park.

Haaahahahahahahaha! Smyjunas is such a piece of shit.

It is nearly impossible to walk six miles per hour. The forward momentum of a biped at six miles an hour causes the walking gait to become grossly inefficient at that speed, which is why we change to a jog or run. I myself am nearly six feet tall and walk/jog my neighborhood with a GPS and never break 5 MPH average. The article was a total lie. As long as the paper doesn't acknowledge it, it's a disprovable argument. Does a tree falling in the forest make any noise if nobody hears it? Does Barry Horstman exceed human physiology when walking in downtown Cincinnati if nobody watches? Don't even acknowledge the Enquirer. It's not journalism.

Wow, talk about burning bridges!

The Current buildings are shameful. Rock bottom quality. Cheap and desperate. For those of us who have followed The Banks, it's like taking 10 years to bake your wedding cake and then frosting it with fresh turds. To the layman, though, he'll never really notice. It got things off the ground. As for the pathetic communal space inside the donuts, it's offset by the fact that the true "amenities" are the city itself, and the world class park that is being created at great expense, a true civic amenity.

Their irresponsible reporting is still hard at work. The headline is just one word away from "Streetcar won't have big impact."

Really? News to me. This is correct, they are still finishing casting for the second season which will start in 2012. Which makes me cry. This is the most epic fantasy TV series ever. That statement is not correct. TRUST ME. What is correct: The 2nd season will start sometime in Late March/April 2012. However, there are many moving pieces, still to be worked out. It's very expensive and number of episodes is still to be decided. How was what I said not correct, if we said the same thing?

Really? News to me. This is correct, they are still finishing casting for the second season which will start in 2012. Which makes me cry. This is the most epic fantasy TV series ever.

Wow there has seriously been nothing but forum masturbation in this thread for weeks now. Who gives a shit if it takes a bit longer to do the utilities? Nobody knows exactly how long it's really going to take, and they never did. Is it a project with a good ROI? Do you support it? Yes? No? That's all that matters.

Naw, the people who don't like being around other people live in Idaho. Many people want to live in a large, newer house with private parking, some privacy, access to shopping, and especially, quality schools. They also want utilities and access to jobs. For many of these people, the answer is a single family house in the suburbs. Other people want to live in cities with fairly funded, quality infrastructure and contribute a diversity of lifestyles to a national economy that is not a loss-leader. But I suppose they do keep some people around on this forum just to keep the rest of us entertained.

If anyone's seen the HBO docudrama "Too Big to Fail," it's mentioned at one point in the movie that an executive told Hank Paulson to use the federal treasury to "buy up all the empty houses and burn them." Maybe we should have.

Unfortunately this speculation is irrelevant as income distribution estimates do not turn up until the 1930's. For what it's worth, the GINI estimate in 1929 was 46. In 2006 it was 47. Since the lowest occurred in 1968 at 34, all "gains" in income distribution due to the creation of the welfare state were erased between 1970-2005. Therefore today, regardless of your political perspective, we have debt, an *increase* in income inequality, and no economic growth. The ONLY available wealth to pay down the debt resides with the wealthy. Increasing their tax is a mathematical inevitability.

I think it will be clad in beige granite.

^This sounds like a bunch of hand-wringing. I've worked with Parsons Brinkerhoff on projects and I can't believe that between them and the city's leadership someone simply forgot to calculate a reasonable cost of utility relocation. As has been mentioned, step back from your collective noodling and think about the myriad road projects occurring right this minute around town. The Beechmont-Five Mile intersection reconstruction? The Ohio 28 widening? Can anyone tell me anything about their budgets? Where are those forum threads? Is a Beechmont Avenue dollar not the same value as a Streetcar dollar?

^ I'm not entirely sure what any of this information has to do with the feasibility of construction? We build things and break them down and rebuild them. Things get moved around. Things cost money. It's all part of life. Am I missing something?

^ Good thing municipal utilities came along before car culture. If putting all that stuff under our Sacred Travel Lanes today were a novel idea, it would be laughed out of town.

Update: The streetcar was way ahead, but the poll has shifted wildly in favor of The Banks, by something like 20 percentage points in one day. Perhaps someone got wind of it and started a voting rout for some reason? Polls always fascinate me.

Some random poll on Business Courrier. Since I had to choose, I actually voted for Over-The-Rhine, thinking most people would as well...and was surprised at the results! http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/poll/results/52241

What happened to stuff like this? Why is everything starting to look like this? Hell. remember when The Banks was going to look like this? And everyone was like "OH GOD NO! IT HAS NO CHARACTER!" Then we got this. In the first picture our GDP was 6 trillion dollars, and they build a gorgeous brick condo tower. In the bottom picture, our GDP was 15 trillion dollars, and we got an army barracks with chain link fence balconies on the most valuable land in Cincinnati.