August 28, 20186 yr Mold in Turner Hall: https://www.wcpo.com/news/education/higher-education/uc-news/university-of-cincinnati-freshmen-staying-in-hotel-after-mold-discovered-in-dorm-room
August 28, 20186 yr Author EXCLUSIVE: Kroger teams with UC on Innovation Hub lab By Steve Watkins – Staff Reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier Aug 28, 2018, 2:46pm EDT Updated 45 minutes ago Kroger Co. is teaming up with the University of Cincinnati to run an incubation lab at UC’s 1819 Innovation Hub. Downtown Cincinnati-based Kroger (NYSE: KR), the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, will use the space to come up with new innovations and improve what it has. The company has become known for its innovation prowess, developing high-tech advancements such as temperature control systems, digital shelving and its “Scan, Bag, Go” technology that allows customers to scan grocery items as they shop. https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/08/28/exclusive-kroger-teams-with-uc-on-innovation-hub.html
October 3, 20186 yr Here’s what’s new for UC basketball fans at revamped Fifth Third Arena’s concession stands University of Cincinnati basketball fans will be in for some new food experiences when they attend games at the overhauled Fifth Third Arena this season. UC’s $87 million renovation of its on-campus arena will feature new concession stand offerings for men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball when the arena re-opens next month. UC and concessions partner Aramark are bringing a decided hometown flavor to the revamped arena’s concession offerings. New to the main concourse are: *Frisch’s Big Boy: Big Boy burgers, fries and chicken tenders near sections 118 and 119 *Skyline Chili: Coneys or kids’ meals will be available at three Skyline locations in the arena, including near section 117 *Taste of Belgium: Chicken & waffles and pretzels with beer cheese will be available near section 113. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/10/03/here-s-what-s-new-for-uc-basketball-fans-at.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 5, 20186 yr Get a look inside UC’s 1819 Innovation Hub The University of Cincinnati held a grand opening on Friday for the 1819 Innovation Hub. Also known as iHub, the building is meant to serve as the front door to the university. It was built inside a former Sears, Roebuck & Co. department store at 2900 Reading Road. The $38 million project is home to UC’s Office of Innovation as well as the Procter & Gamble-backed UC Simulation Center and tenants including Cincinnati Bell, Kroger, CincyTech, Village Life Outreach Project and Live Well Collaborative. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/10/05/get-a-look-inside-uc-s-1819-innovation-hub-photos.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 8, 20186 yr ^I like everything about how this building turned out, except the nickname "iHub" which feels like it's trying way too hard to be "techy" but is a decade or two behind the times.
October 24, 20186 yr Very interesting. When I worked UC about 10 years ago, the leadership seemed to openly hate Crosley Tower but since it would be so hard to demolish, they accepted the fact that they had to live with it. There was a proposal at one point to paint the exterior. It appears that they are now using the same "chunks of concrete are falling off of it!" scare tactic that ODOT/KTC are using for the Brent Spence Bridge to claim that it's unsound and needs to be demolished. It's crazy that it could take up to 5 years to demolish.
October 24, 20186 yr I think you misunderstood. It won't take 5 years to physically demolish Crosley. The process of building its new replacement and demolishing it will take that approximate 5 year timeline.
October 24, 20186 yr I'm probably an outlier, but I love Crosley Tower. Brutalist buildings are being torn down at a fast clip the same way Victorian buildings were demolished earlier in the 20th century. I never understood why these types of buildings get bashed so much, while the truly offensive International/PoMo monstrosities like Atrium One/Two or those maroon towers on Covington's riverfront don't. I guess those are so corporate and bland that they don't even register. I wouldn't want a whole city of Brutalism, but having a few crazy buildings like that around is nice. Once they're gone they'll never come back (which I suppose most people would be fine with).
October 24, 20186 yr ^I agree. I also like the UC College of Law building. Both are very different, unique buildings. Having classes in Crosley was terrible, though. The only issue I have with the Law College is that the building is a gateway/entry building to campus on a really prominent corner, and it just hides behind trees. I've also heard the Law College building is incredibly inefficient with energy usage.
October 24, 20186 yr I love brutalism and hate how much of it is being torn down. With that said, Crosley is terrible. It is a perfect example of all the bad aspects of brutalism (of which there are many) and essentially zero of the good aspects. The interior spaces are horribly tight, it's not laid out in a logical manner and isn't very adaptable, it doesn't have enough bathrooms, the quantity of windows is a joke, the entrances are inhospitable, the garage entry is especially crappy, the exterior is a patchwork of repairs as a result of the nature of monolithic concrete construction, it doesn't relate whatsoever to its surroundings, it presents itself as a closed off fortress and nothing more, etc. I hate seeing good brutalism disappear as is happening all too often, but this isn't good brutalism. It's bad architecture.
October 24, 20186 yr UC Marriott Kingsgate has been sold to AJ Capital Partners. Its looks like the Marriott will be rebranded as a "Graduate Hotel" a brand that AJ Capital has been producing around alot of major college campuses. Not sure I agree with the re-branding since this hotel is used by just as many in the hospitals as it is used by the university. Only time will tell but UC got 23 million out of the deal.
October 24, 20186 yr Well I hope UC takes this opportunity to reimagine the Crosley Tower/Rieveschl Hall/Langsam Library area and bring it up to par with the rest of campus.
October 24, 20186 yr Just now, savadams13 said: UC Marriott Kingsgate has been sold to AJ Capital Partners. Its looks like the Marriott will be rebranded as a "Graduate Hotel" a brand that AJ Capital has been producing around alot of major college campuses. Not sure I agree with the re-branding since this hotel is used by just as many in the hospitals as it is used by the university. Only time will tell but UC got 23 million out of the deal. It is oddly a pretty popular wedding reception and high school dance venue.
October 24, 20186 yr I could see them moving a lot of the non-lab space of Crosley Tower and some of the classroom space of Rieveschl to the current (soon-to-be old) College of Business. Then they move all labs from Crosley into Rieveschl, demolish Crosley, and build a more modern building in its place to accommodate (and add to) the lost lab space and additional classroom space. I think the only new-ish lab space the University has on the main campus is in the Engineering Research Center, which isn't really used outside of the College of Engineering.
October 24, 20186 yr Just now, ryanlammi said: I could see them moving a lot of the non-lab space of Crosley Tower and some of the classroom space of Rieveschl to the current (soon-to-be old) College of Business. Then they move all labs from Crosley into Rieveschl, demolish Crosley, and build a more modern building in its place to accommodate (and add to) the lost lab space and additional classroom space. I think the only new-ish lab space the University has on the main campus is in the Engineering Research Center, which isn't really used outside of the College of Engineering. The old business school building, will become the new law school building with a renovation and addition...
October 25, 20186 yr The University of Cincinnati entered into an agreement to sell its Kingsgate Hotel and Conference Center for eight figures. The UC Board of Trustees on Oct. 16 approved what it is calling a sale/lease of the Kingsgate Marriott at 151 Goodman Drive in Corryville to Chicago-based AJ Capital Partners. The purchase is set to close in December or early January, pending a due diligence period. More Below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/10/24/exclusive-uc-pens-multimillion-dollar-deal-for.html Looks like the Kingsgate Marriott will be making a switch soon. https://www.graduatehotels.com/ Edited October 25, 20186 yr by tonyt3524
October 25, 20186 yr 17 hours ago, jmecklenborg said: It is oddly a pretty popular wedding reception and high school dance venue. UC was probably pushing that to get high schoolers onto campus. Where I went to college there would be unpredictable school groups crowding the cafeteria all the time -- all the way down to 2nd and 3rd grade.
October 25, 20186 yr I didn't think of that. Having high school dances in a university's ballroom is a pretty brilliant marketing tactic, although by the prom it's a little too late. My introduction to the UC campus was sitting in my mom's car parked at a meter on Clifton Ave. while she attended night classes.
October 25, 20186 yr Just now, jmecklenborg said: I didn't think of that. Having high school dances in a university's ballroom is a pretty brilliant marketing tactic, although by the prom it's a little too late. My introduction to the UC campus was sitting in my mom's car parked at a meter on Clifton Ave. while she attended night classes. Did she leave you the keys and ask you to move the car if the meter maid came by?
October 25, 20186 yr Just now, jmecklenborg said: My introduction to the UC campus was sitting in my mom's car parked at a meter on Clifton Ave. while she attended night classes. Ahahaha, stuff like that is why I have no sympathy for my early-mid 20s employees when they whine about being bored at work. They don't even know bored! 2018 "bored" is NOTHING like 1988 bored.
October 25, 20186 yr A lot of high schools (including mine) do combined Junior/Senior proms, so it wouldn't be a complete waste even if all of the seniors had already made a decision for the next year.
October 25, 20186 yr 18 hours ago, jmecklenborg said: It is oddly a pretty popular wedding reception and high school dance venue. I went to a bat mitzvah there once about ~15 years ago. I remember thinking it was an odd choice for a venue, but it was very nice! The only other time I was in there was for an Uptown Consortium luncheon a few years back. Hope the new owners can keep the quality up. Just now, jmecklenborg said: I didn't think of that. Having high school dances in a university's ballroom is a pretty brilliant marketing tactic, although by the prom it's a little too late. My introduction to the UC campus was sitting in my mom's car parked at a meter on Clifton Ave. while she attended night classes. Damn this is way too relatable. My mom worked at UC and back in the day they NEVER cancelled for snow. So guess where I’d get to hang out when my elementary school called a snow day? My mom’s office, which used to be in a trailer by the Shoemaker Center. I think I was the only kid who hated snow days growing up.
October 25, 20186 yr Just now, jwulsin said: Did she leave you the keys and ask you to move the car if the meter maid came by? I think we parked up in McMicken circle too, a few times. For whatever reason that little booth that is still there is like this iconic thing in my mind. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1296289,-84.5205814,3a,24.5y,39.38h,84.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbIypr_O8GCm5krpO_E3XsA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Yeah, speaking of pre-phone childhood boredom -- my dad was always a jerk with this stuff and if you had a game or practice and if he had something to do that day he'd drop you off 1-2 hours early and pick you up 1-2 hours after it was over. What did you do during that time? Just stand around by a chain link fence because YOU HAD to be there when he came by to pick you up. I have on particularly bleak memory of being dropped off early and picked up late from a practice that had been cancelled at Colerain High School. So I just sat there on a curb in the parking lot for like 4 hours. When I was a kid that's when the parents started idling in their minivans at bus stops waiting for junior to arrive, then they'd drive them the 9 houses back to their house.
October 25, 20186 yr Quote I'm probably an outlier, but I love Crosley Tower. Brutalist buildings are being torn down at a fast clip the same way Victorian buildings were demolished earlier in the 20th century. I never understood why these types of buildings get bashed so much, while the truly offensive International/PoMo monstrosities like Atrium One/Two or those maroon towers on Covington's riverfront don't. I guess those are so corporate and bland that they don't even register. I think Brutalism is being torn down at a fast clip the way Victorians were in part because they are responsible for so much urban destruction themselves. Boston City Hall was a crime against humanity. I do like some examples of Brutalism but on the whole its a very tough style to love, doubly so given its history in failed urban renewal schemes.
October 25, 20186 yr I get sick of hearing about that place. It's only talked about because of where it is. If it was in Syracuse or Harrisburg or Tallahassee nobody would care. The Cincinnati EPA is pretty similar, it similarly destroyed a brick street 19th century area. But it's not part of the national conversation, even though it's pretty much the exact same thing.
October 25, 20186 yr Just now, jmecklenborg said: I get sick of hearing about that place. It's only talked about because of where it is. If it was in Syracuse or Harrisburg or Tallahassee nobody would care. The Cincinnati EPA is pretty similar, it similarly destroyed a brick street 19th century area. But it's not part of the national conversation, even though it's pretty much the exact same thing. Saying it's only talked about because of where it is, is like saying piazzas in Italy are only talked about because of where they are. Yes, that's the whole point. In a dense cramped downtown all the sudden there is a sea of hardscape with a brutalist building looming over it in a very Orwellian way. If it was in a less dense urban city, it wouldn't matter or have the same effect, exactly like the EPA in Cincinnati. The EPA is surrounded by fences, lawns, and driveways adjacent to 6-lane road; Boston's City Hall is surrounded by an urban plaza in downtown.
October 25, 20186 yr I'm not a fan of the EPA building either. The fact that this isn't in the national consciousness is because Cincinnati almost never is in spite of its wealth of historical buildings. Historically the area that the EPA covered was very dense by Midwestern standards but not as dense as Boston of course. Boston City hall was the result of tearing down Scollay Square which had a touch of a Piccadilly Circus feel to it for a dead lifeless urban plaza that's overwhelming and oppressive, though as I understand it wasn't that way originally but due to some bad engineering decisions the fountains and performance stage they had to lessen its oppressiveness were deactivated leading to the bleak windswept plaza we have today. Still even with those fountains/stage its a downgrade from Scollay Square. Edited October 25, 20186 yr by neilworms
October 31, 20186 yr Some photos from today inside Fifth Third Arena. Set to open tomorrow with first exhibition game.
October 31, 20186 yr Mostly, I really like how the renovation turned out... but I wish they had not added the swoopy curved lines to the exterior (as seen to the left of the "Fifth Third Arena" sign in the last photo). Those just cheapen the whole appearance. Hopefully, they're just applied as decals and can be pealed off.
October 31, 20186 yr It was unfortunately paint that they used. But I agree, I felt on the exterior things could've been handled differently on the sides.
October 31, 20186 yr Just now, tonyt3524 said: It was unfortunately paint that they used. But I agree, I felt on the exterior things could've been handled differently on the sides. Well, I guess on the upside, it's always easy to re-paint.
October 31, 20186 yr its a basketball arena and probably volleyball... so maybe those swirly lines are a design element that reference nets. a basketball net and a volleyball net.
November 1, 20186 yr 12 hours ago, RJohnson said: its a basketball arena and probably volleyball... so maybe those swirly lines are a design element that reference nets. a basketball net and a volleyball net. Yeah that was the thought process from what I was told. They're supposed to resemble netting.
November 1, 20186 yr The exterior was suppose to get a whole new metal cladding and in the end the pricing came in way too high. It was value engineered out and the University opt'd for a graphic paint job on the exterior for the time being.
November 1, 20186 yr Just now, savadams13 said: The exterior was suppose to get a whole new metal cladding and in the end the pricing came in way too high. It was value engineered out and the University opt'd for a graphic paint job on the exterior for the time being. Interesting. Thanks for the background. I get that budgets impose constraints. As I said earlier, it seems like the kind of thing that kind be fixed/updated in the future, either with new paint... or maybe they shake the money tree and get the expensive metal cladding.
November 1, 20186 yr Jeff Wyler's expanding into eyewear. They're putting in a boutique in the McMicken Circle parking booth.
November 2, 20186 yr Get a peek inside UC’s newly renovated Fifth Third Arena When University of Cincinnati fans walk into Fifth Third Arena for the first time after its $87 million renovation – their first chance is tonight – they’ll feel as though they’re walking into a brand new facility. The concourses, the seats, the club spaces, the scoreboard, the bars, they’re all new. Yes, it’s the same building it was before but all of the insides are new. There are even areas that are part of the arena now that were actually outside of it before UC began renovating the 29-year-old building in March 2017. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/11/01/get-a-peek-inside-uc-s-newly-renovated-fifth-third.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 23, 20196 yr UC College of Business receives $1.5 million gift A $1.5 million gift from the Kautz Family Foundation will establish the Attic Building Enhancement Fund for the $120 million Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. The donation will help build the Kautz Attic on the fourth floor of the new College of Business, which is scheduled to open in fall 2019. The student-centric space will be a place for creative thinking and collaboration related to entrepreneurship and business education. It will have rooms and furniture that can be reconfigured to fit students’ needs for projects, business pitches, classes and campus events. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/01/23/uc-college-of-business-receives-1-5-million-gift.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 2, 20196 yr UC Health plans $30M in upgrades to Clifton campus UC Health plans $30 million in upgrades to its Clifton-area campus, including a refresh of the main entrance to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and several inpatient floors. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/02/01/exclusive-uc-health-plans-30m-in-upgrades-to.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 12, 20196 yr UC has put out an RFP for construction management of the renovation of Lindner Hall into the new College of Law: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/03/08/uc-seeks-contractor-for-40m-college-of-law-project.html Quote Downtown-based BHDP Architecture has already been selected as the architect of record for the project in conjunction with Perkins + Will, a Chicago-headquartered firm that designed the University of Washington’s Life Sciences Building and UC Health’s Gardner Neuroscience Institute. Perkins + Will will be assisting BHDP with law school planning and design. ... Preconstruction services are anticipated to start in June 2019, with construction stage beginning in September 2020. Substantial completion of work is anticipated for June 2022, with all construction manager services completed in December 2022. Edited March 12, 20196 yr by jwulsin
March 12, 20196 yr Interesting to see that "for about a year, the building will be used as swing space." I wonder if they are so overcrowded that they need all of that extra space, or if they are going to take that opportunity to freshen up other buildings on campus.
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