Posted August 2, 200717 yr Wilmington really surprised me. The city is in fantastic shape; very few building look to have been neglected as you'd see in most other Ohio cities. Wilmington must be doing something right. Another Rush tune that Wilmington inspired (you'll see why): [youtube=425,350]3ZQAoNwsp4I Clinton County Courthouse The municipal building was designed to reflect building that once stood on the site All the worlds indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each anothers audience Outside the gilded cage Living in the limelight The universal dream For those who wish to seem One must put up barriers To keep oneself intact
August 2, 200717 yr Well, it's Wilmington. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 3, 200717 yr The mural with the hot air baloon is finished now :-) You should come back and take pictures again! haha. If I have time I might try to. I really think that Wilmington is a city on the rise... you really have to be an insider like myself to realize all of it, but its happening. We may not be skyrocketing in population, but business is a boomin!
August 3, 200717 yr What's going on with the Denver Hotel? My wife and I used to like to eat at the tavern there a few years ago when it was "Putter's Back Nine" or something like that. Then the hotel closed, and then a couple of years ago it reopened along with the tavern, but the menu was really limited (burgers and wings, basically.) It seems like a neat hotel that the local area can't really support with business...
August 3, 200717 yr I like the Rush reference. "All the World's a Stage" is also a good old Rush live album from '76.
August 3, 200717 yr What's going on with the Denver Hotel? My wife and I used to like to eat at the tavern there a few years ago when it was "Putter's Back Nine" or something like that. Then the hotel closed, and then a couple of years ago it reopened along with the tavern, but the menu was really limited (burgers and wings, basically.) It seems like a neat hotel that the local area can't really support with business... The General Denver keeps getting better. Every time I have been in there they have had people at the bar or college students eating dinner. I think its a popular Sunday after church type place. I've been to a couple banquets there and the hors dourves were awesome. I think their current goal is to redo all the rooms upstairs and open them up for reservations. and I'd say the menu has matured since the last time you were there: http://generaldenver.com/general_denver_menu.pdf
August 5, 200717 yr I like Wilmington. It's a pretty town. exurbkid...Sprawl will eventually reach Wilmington. (Hell, it's already happening!) As an insider, do you think this will have a positive or a negative effect on the downtown?
August 22, 200717 yr Grasscat, Wilmington will be one of the biggest combatants to sprawl if I have anything to do with it! lol. I could give a long speech or a short speech, I'll TRY to stay brief, since the whole world doesn't revolve around Wilmington... brief: The people who care about downtown have already formed a few organizations to keep downtown pretty, clean, attractive, and NOT vacant. Wilmington's downtown district is their passion and they will do anything to keep it lively. Our Harry Potter party was one of the best in the nation... thanks to several downtown wilmington organizations. If they keep it up, Wilmington could become a model for other town on how to compete with sprawl. LONGGGGG (but with graphics! :mrgreen:) I went through yearlong program called Leadership Clinton and got a lot of inside information about the town. They are aware of the sprawl issue, but aren't really acting on it yet. If you go into the more residential neighborhoods, Southridge, Lakewood, Denver, you'll see more houses filling in spaces between existing older houses, raising the density level in the innercity. If you werent aware, Wilmington is yet again bypassing 73 to the northside of town. The call it the Wilmington Bypass (how clever). It starts at DHL/Airborne and goes above the town limits and connects again at 73 west. The Municiple 'people' in Wilmington plot the city's growth to head north and stop at the bypass in the next 25-50 years and eventually spread to connect with I-71 at 68 with R&L Carriers and Robert's Convention Center. I agree with that, but I believe that as organizations (YMCA, Red Cross, Sports Complexes, etc) in the heart of Wilmington overcrowd, they will be building their headquarters on the southside of town on 134. Thats where the National Weather Service, Southern State Community College, The Clinton County Jail, Laural Oaks, and big Corporations that are in connection with DHL and Airborne are all located. This is the projection (i made it myself... i pray that i become a planner!) All that enclosed by green will definitely become residential. Whether it is sprawled out in nasty subdivisions or in a grid is up to the community leaders. It has the potential to be in a grid because city officials didn't put houses at the ends of some of the streets, encouraging their expansion. The area enclosed in blue has already begun its expansion to be a comercial district. The purple lines drawn are new roads that have been put in since Google took photos. Lowes Drive is the one closer to downtown, and Davids Drive or Fife Avenue (Its an extension of one of the two) is the one in the middle of those fields. A Kohl's is already in the planning stages for developing across from Walmart. One of my friend's moms has the megaplan for that entire section... it will become an entertainment and restuarant district out of downtown :-( but, its in a high traffic area out of the grid, there isn't much that could be done about that. The Yellow and Red, yep, you guessed it, The Airpark is extending its facilities and has new office buildings waiting for tenents over there. In 6 years, after I'm through my junior and senior year and planning school (at UC of course), I'm hoping the city of Wilmington will hire me, or create a position for me so that I can prevent the Warren County-effect in Wilmington. I care a lot about the town, and i hope that i will be prepared enough after graduating to take on the task. I already have my 25 year plan drawn out in paint and on photoshop, haha... my siblings think I'm a geek. Any more questions? Wilmington is full of progressive enthusiests... so I'm really hoping that when I come back from UC they will be happy to have someone who went for college to draw out their ideas and put them in action.
August 22, 200717 yr You sure are up on your county seats.. I've never been to Wilmington, this is a nice surprise. Their downtown buildings have a lot of character.
August 22, 200717 yr ^^So what you are telling us is that a new bypass will facilitate sprawl, and you are the only one taking action?
August 22, 200717 yr No, the bypass will cap the sprawl if it happens (and for you pesimists, when it happens) Like I said, there are a lot of progressive thinkers in Wilmington... there just isnt a City Planner position or anything, yet. I was just saying in my last two paragraphs that if there were to be an open job like that when I graduate college, I would be estatic... I wasnt saying that I was the only one who is taking action. I'm not even taking action, I'm just reading and learning and observing and fantacizing. I've seen drawings for a master plan for the city, but they were drawn in the 1950's and havent been followed. I'm just saying that I am a YOUNG person who is deeply interested in the well being and growth of this community.
August 22, 200717 yr I think it's only a matter of time before we start to see Cincinnati sprawl in Wilmington. I know two kids that I went to school with that commuted everyday between Wilmington and Montgomery/Sycamore Township.
August 23, 200717 yr The relative lack of southern Columbus sprawl has always amazed me. I think it will be quite a while before Wilmington meets Greater Columbus...
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