Posted July 31, 200717 yr i finally made it to check out great american ballpark :clap: this is from last tuesday night 7/24/07 vs the brewers. rookwood hyde park i hydely knew ye wacka wacka old skool heading down nice views over the river hey don't forgetta the goettafest is coming up -- we'll want pics! :laugh: my old kentucky lifestyle mall home guess were we went to eat :wink: purple people only hey cleveland those cranes are not lake birds :wink: blue moon of kentucky aquarium river action hill peeps no ribs for you! schmoopy a good uo type view here we are the requisite 'density' pic olde reds modern reds -- i really liked these :clap: so i heard they call it toothbrush ballpark, i can't imagine why :laugh: play ball! an unfortunately rare strikeout & the chili game his mom got him ken griffey, jrs foul ball right in front of me, no kiddin that was cool! :-o yes i live in manhattan and still the ascent = wow. nice ballpark view of it too! :clap: hello cleveland? bueller? got cheese? what do we have to do to buy a few runs? :-P well i didn't get the griffey foul ball, but i did get a great pick of mr. redlegs with my niece :wink2: adam dunn got a hr, so my dragons season ticket holder father-in-law was happy yay we had a great day at great american :clap: *** sorry to say the reds lost 5-3. belisle, who looked so good when i saw him in his last start in shea, only lasted 3 innings this time. overall, the stadium was nice, but given new stadium knowledge it should have been so much better. ***
July 31, 200717 yr Nice! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 31, 200717 yr the apartment building labeled "nice view" what building is that? The ascent building is hot. I love the strategically placed "world class signage".
July 31, 200717 yr ^ i dk but someone will -- it's in cinci on the east side of I-71. very newyorky in style innit?
July 31, 200717 yr the apartment building labeled "nice view" what building is that? Adams Place, and it's condos. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 31, 200717 yr ^ hey now -- you can check the stats that dunn's hr was in the 8th.... but yeah we did leave early, just before the 9th -- i know fielder scored for the brewers in the 9th and we missed that. anyone know when they built adam's place? edit: never mind -- emporis says 1992. i sure didnt remember it for some reason. here's some emporis info: - The plaza in front of the condominium building contains an abstract red steel sculpture by artist Alexander Liberman entitled "Canticle". - This is the only high-rise building in Cincinnati located directly on the Ohio River. - Although technically located in the East End neighborhood, Adams Place is in the far western section of the neighborhood and is essentially part of Downtown.
July 31, 200717 yr anyone know when they built adam's place? looks like it was built in '92. I wonder what the place looks like on the inside.
August 1, 200717 yr Belisle sucks. Glad you enjoyed your trip to our ballpark. I did those mosaics too. Those are probably the coolest things in an otherwise average (but nice) ballpark.
August 1, 200717 yr I've heard that Griffer owns the top level or so of Adams Place...can anyone confirm/deny that? Love the ballpark shots...especially this one, highlighting one of my favorite areas of the ballpark. This new addition gives the ballpark a more complete feel.
August 1, 200717 yr I've heard that Griffer owns the top level or so of Adams Place...can anyone confirm/deny that? When I was look up the building date there were a few articles about him purchasing a unit, but not much detail.
August 1, 200717 yr but i thought that one conveyed "moving down the highway in a speeding car" rather well? :wink: err.....ok ok so i don't have photoshop - only the worthless software that came with the camera.
August 1, 200717 yr Oh, didn't know you were going for that look :D I realized it's the distort, not skew. My bad.
August 1, 200717 yr wierd, I've only been to two games at that stadium and one of them was that night. We were just below and to the left of you, by third base. Nice pics.
August 2, 200717 yr I've heard that Griffer owns the top level or so of Adams Place...can anyone confirm/deny that? When I was look up the building date there were a few articles about him purchasing a unit, but not much detail. A kid from my school lives in that building and griffey lives down the hall. I don't know what floor though.
August 2, 200717 yr i owuld think it's one of the top penthouses up there. wierd, I've only been to two games at that stadium and one of them was that night. We were just below and to the left of you, by third base. Nice pics. small world -- we were about ten rows above the third base/visitors dugout. i still have my ticket: sec 117, row y, seat 9. good seats -- i see they are $30, but my cinci in-laws had free tix for all of us they got from work.
August 2, 200717 yr Griffey finds local home at Adams Place Business Courier of Cincinnati - April 21, 2000by Dan Monk The newest Griffey family in Cincinnati has settled into a luxury Adams Place condo purchased for $540,000, a deal that netted the seller a 24 percent mark-up in less than two years. Ronald Crossland bought the condo for $411,500 in June 1998, according to Hamilton County records, before closing the deal with Reds centerfielder Ken Griffey Jr. April 12. Neither Crossland nor Griffey could be reached for comment, and the exact floor or unit at the 79-condo tower purchased by the Griffeys could not be determined. What sold Griffey and his wife, Melissa, on Adams Place, according to local real estate sources, is the standing plan to construct a pedestrian walkway over East Pete Rose Way, allowing Melissa to walk the couple's two children to Dad's baseball games at Cinergy Field through scenic Bicentennial Commons and Sawyer Point. Adams Place condos are marketed for between $250,000 for lower-level units to the $1 million penthouse units on top; the units between typically fetch from $300,000 and $500,000. The Griffey condo has a solarium and outdoor deck, sources said. The search for a new home for Junior was wrapped up fairly quickly, considering he didn't even know he'd be playing for Cincinnati until the Feb. 10 trade with the Seattle Mariners. Griffey and his local Realtor, Barbara Horter with Sibcy Cline, also looked at some single-family homes in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky prior to purchasing the Adams Place condo, sources said. Adams Place recently sold out all 79 units, marking a first for the tower that opened with high hopes in 1993. Stalled sales in its opening years forced a good deal of tumultuous relations between the original developer, Benenson Capital Co. of New York, and the city of Cincinnati, as well as numerous revisions of the overall plan. Towne Properties of Mount Adams joined the project as a marketing agent several years ago. Disagreements between Benenson and the city spilled over into Hamilton County courtrooms several years ago, a legal saga that is still continuing, which means the pedestrian bridge probably won't be built anytime soon. No matter, since Griffey signed a nine-year, $116 million contract. Griffey's family is expected to live at Adams Place during the summer months Junior's son, George Kenneth Griffey III, or "Trey," isn't in school at home in Orlando. If you're doing the math, rough numbers estimate that with Junior's $12,888,888 average salary, divided by the 162 games the Reds will play this year, he makes a little under $80,000 a game. At that rate, it would take Junior a little less than seven games to raise the cash to buy the condo, in gross figures -- paying it off sometime in the bottom half of the seventh inning of that seventh game. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2000/04/24/tidbits.html
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