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God damn I hate the Enquirer. It's the Fox News print edition. "Governor throws hissy fit" is hardly neutral reporting. GOP: Budget offer met with 'hissy fit' Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland can either cut a deal with Ohio Senate Republicans to fill an $851 million budget hole in December or risk having to slash public education funding in a year when he is running for re-election, two leading Senate Republicans said Monday. "We offered this as an alternative, expecting a discussion and instead it produced a hissy fit on the part of the governor,'' Seitz said. "The governor said it would be his plan or nothing." http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091130/NEWS0108/912010335/1055/NEWS/GOP++Budget+offer+met+with++hissy+fit+

Except that the ability to go that high in the past wasn't limited by technology, it was limited by economy. Perhaps "collapse" works in both meanings here.

^Train your children to eat hair, and you'll have achieved a balanced ecological system.

I agree with you as well. There is a sweet spot for everything.

^Well duh, nobody wanted in on the 3CDC development zones before there was 3CDC, because it was before there was 3CDC! Before there was a critical mass of capital that no one investor was willing to commit. And that is the point, a critical mass of capital investment. I understand that you see things from your Realtor perspective. But OTR as a whole is spotty, one street might go for $200 per square foot, and the next one over might go for $50. And this guy is definitely asking about a "spotty" part of the neighborhood. Thus, I think conservative advice would be best for him. If he were asking about buying a property near 14th and Vine, perhaps he could be more bullish. I don't think anyone would lose money at this point investing anywhere in the Basin. But I am not convinced yet that "all boats are rising with the tide" there. As you point out, stuff is also creeping down the hillside from the north. But that also proves my point. Some of that gentrification is 15 years old now, and those lower hillside streets are still quite unpredictable.

^Isn't that where people park to go to Hamburger Marys? There are always shady people wandering around that parking lot and intersection at night.

Don't fret. It was always that way.

^ I like it.

I tuned in right when those carebears were dancing to Carly Simon. That was some weird shit right there, so I turned it off.

You are right, it's arresting in small doses. But you can't live inside of it. It's like decorating your house with H.R. Giger. In my opinion, at least, you can only appreciate the macabre from a place of true beauty and security, otherwise it just becomes corrupting. I didn't know what word to use other than industrialization, I wasn't so much referring to 19th century machinery as I was just general human...crap.

What a cool story. I even started reading the comments section, then thought better of it. I wanted to end the story on a good note.

^ My mom and I were actually talking about this the other day, since I'm in Ohio for Thanksgiving from Orlando. I proposed that the gloom of winter can be turned into something ethereal and kind of cool, in the right kind of built environment. Like this shot of Prague: There's something about gloomy weather and industrialization that just don't go together.

I'm so glad we live in America... ...instead of soviet Russia. Wait. What?

I told ya it would be a whopper.

^I'm not sure what you're trying to say. You just underscored exactly what I just posted.

^Pretty much it has to do with financial planning. It is near impossible to do long-term planning and line up bonds and other funding sources for capital projects if the money weren't separate from operations.

Because of math. Stuff is creeping north via "beach heads" at Vine and Central, Main, and next Washington Park. This is intended. But it will only creep as fast as absorption rates, which are in the low 100's of units per year.

Don't worry, there are only three expenditures some right-wing think tanks will endorse. War. Highways. Faith-based initiatives.

^ I had a roommate in college who neglected this as well. I eventually wrote him a note and then asked to make sure he understood it. It was as confrontational as I could muster at 18 years old. It's funny how much emotional maturing you do between 18 and 30. Now I'm sure I'd just yell at him before he even left the stall to wash his f*cking hands.

I'm taking a physiology course right now. Please no more letter-number combinations. My brain will explode.

That a pretty picture, but ask what the vacancy rate is? That paints another picture, doesn't it. Considering four buildings in that picture have vacancy rates at 50% or higher. This paints yet another one, doesn't it. Make sure you post your sources. Q3 2009 CBD Vacancy Rates Atlanta 13.6% Cincinnati 14.8% http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20091025/BIZ01/910250315/Perks--potential-in-office-space-shift http://www.ajc.com/business/atlanta-s-vacant-office-176491.html

Let's keep this in perspective. Cincinnati's buildings are very small. What we consider the "newer end of Cincinnati's skyline," the clump of buildings around Atrium and Chemed, barely crack 100 meters. We're talking suburban Atlanta. Our skyline seems impressive because it is dense and diverse, and it sits on a highly constrained stage, where every vantage puts the buildings right in front of your face. And the current tallest, which sets the scale for everything else, is incredibly skinny. So, when a totally average new tower comes along, it betrays all those little tricks.

Thank you Bengals for ruining my family's rare Sunday dinner.

It's not a rendering. It's not "my interpretation." It's just the elevation photoshopped onto the picture. If you're hoping for a slim, elegant tower you're going to be disappointed.

Start here: http://www.3cdc.org/