Posted October 1, 200915 yr If you think Cincinnati sucks, you apparently haven't been to the city's newest DESTINATION!!! Cincinnati is known for their art deco; the city's new outlet mall is no exception! Since Union Teminal has structural problems, they've built a new one (it is a lot busier too!) Interior murals replicate those in the rotunda of Union Terminal in both quality and design The view of the Ohio is only...say...29 miles away Trendy shopping like Hanes! Oh...the details!!! Carved by hand in authentic EIFS! Plenty of parking! The only reason I'm coming back (unfortunately) There is nothing more unique that the Queen City herself!
October 1, 200915 yr LMAO. This is why I love UO. On a further note, this place is soo much better than the inner city. So clean and spacious with their huge parking lots. ;-)
October 1, 200915 yr I find JCrew's clothing difficult to iron. Makes getting ready for work a pain. Therefore, I give this thread a failing grade Is the directory sign the only thing that won't dissolve from acid rain in this thread? Unless it's made of plastic.
October 1, 200915 yr Wow, a fake Cincinnati for people who hate Cincinnati. haha, mind if I use that quote for something? Ink, you beat me to it, this thread is great! I drive by this crap every thursday night and combined with the I-75 construction traffic, it screws up my commute royally. I was planning on doing a QC/D article on this and Ikea/West Chester. I haven't even been here yet and already you got me hating it.
October 1, 200915 yr LOL I was just cracking up here at work, my co-worker came over and just started laughing as well. And then went, "Boy, that was a really sad thread!" I LOVE J-CREW!!! I am wearing a pair of Gap blue-jeans (only because the J-Crew jeans smell like pigs and cows), a pink J-Crew polo, J-Crew socks and a pair of loafers.
October 1, 200915 yr Finally, a reasonable plan for Over The Rhine! Now all it needs is a trolley!!!!!
October 1, 200915 yr Wow, a fake Cincinnati for people who hate Cincinnati. Bingo. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 1, 200915 yr All this whining about the outlet mall is deranged. And I think that's about the most diplomatic way I can put it. 29 miles away is damn better than 70 miles away, which was the previous alternative. Get over it.
October 1, 200915 yr All this whining about the outlet mall is deranged. And I think that's about the most diplomatic way I can put it. 29 miles away is damn better than 70 miles away, which was the previous alternative. Get over it. Whats deranged is your thought that a mall 29 miles away from Cinci with the name "Cinci" in it is OK.....and that is stealing jobs and revenue from Cinci. Get over that!
October 1, 200915 yr The fake Union Terminal turned food court is just about the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in a suburb anywhere.
October 1, 200915 yr Whats deranged is your thought that a mall 29 miles away from Cinci with the name "Cinci" in it is OK.....and that is stealing jobs and revenue from Cinci. Get over that! You can't possibly be serious. Monroe will mostly be competing with the existing Jeffersonville outlets (and at worst, the Cincinnati suburbs) not Cincinnati itself. So like I said, it is absolutely deranged to be complaining about an improvement of 40+ miles closer. Listen, I'd be thrilled if new retail were being built in Oakley instead. But it's not. So I'll gladly take the 80 mile round-trip reduction in driving time. Out of curiosity, I wonder how many of you complainers are married? I think it's really easy to spew a bunch of trite cliches about a facility specifically intended to cater to women in an internet forum that appears to be overwhelmingly single or gay men.
October 1, 200915 yr Well, it all but closed Cincinnati Mills Mall, although that is in a suburb. An example of sprawl killing sprawl...
October 1, 200915 yr Whats deranged is your thought that a mall 29 miles away from Cinci with the name "Cinci" in it is OK.....and that is stealing jobs and revenue from Cinci. Get over that! You can't possibly be serious. Monroe will mostly be competing with the existing Jeffersonville outlets (and at worst, the Cincinnati suburbs) not Cincinnati itself. So like I said, it is absolutely deranged to be complaining about an improvement of 40 miles closer. Listen, I'd be thrilled if new retail were being built in Oakley instead. But it's not. So I'll gladly take the 80 mile round-trip reduction in driving time. Out of curiosity, I wonder how many of you complainers are married? I think it's really easy to spew a bunch of trite cliches about a facility specifically intended to cater to women in an internet forum that appears to be overwhelmingly single or gay men. And those suburban malls compete with who? It's all sprawl man! What does married have to do with anything? Since when is shopping catered specifically to women?! Your one hell of a "profiler"!
October 1, 200915 yr Although I don't necessarily like the way real estate prices in New York have driven out a lot of mom-'n-pop businesses so only large chains can afford retail space, making the city (especially Manhattan) seem too homogenous and suburbanish, I nevertheless love the idea of outlet malls (and box stores)! I wish we had one here!! I just hate all the holier-than-thou elitism that declares them to be such a blight. In fact, I'm looking forward to the opening of the Costco in Harlem...whenever that is. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 1, 200915 yr Although I don't necessarily like the way real estate prices in New York have driven out a lot of mom-'n-pop businesses so only large chains can afford retail space, making the city (especially Manhattan) seem too homogenous and suburbanish, I nevertheless love the idea of outlet malls (and box stores)! I wish we had one here!! I just hate all the holier-than-thou elitism that declares them to be such a blight. In fact, I'm looking forward to the opening of the Costco in Harlem...whenever that is. You can go to seacaucus (outlet mall ground zero) or long island for an outlet mall.
October 1, 200915 yr Although I don't necessarily like the way real estate prices in New York have driven out a lot of mom-'n-pop businesses so only large chains can afford retail space, making the city (especially Manhattan) seem too homogenous and suburbanish, I nevertheless love the idea of outlet malls (and box stores)! I wish we had one here!! I just hate all the holier-than-thou elitism that declares them to be such a blight. In fact, I'm looking forward to the opening of the Costco in Harlem...whenever that is. You can go to seacaucus (outlet mall ground zero) or long island for an outlet mall. why shouldn't I be able to take a city bus or subway to one? Or even walk? Build one in Manhattan! http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 1, 200915 yr Out of curiosity, I wonder how many of you complainers are married? I think it's really easy to spew a bunch of trite cliches about a facility specifically intended to cater to women in an internet forum that appears to be overwhelmingly single or gay men. And those suburban malls compete with who? It's all sprawl man! What does married have to do with anything? Since when is shopping catered specifically to women?! Your one hell of a "profiler"! I am probably walking into some "fresh" here. :| The outside world (ordinary consumers and citizens outside UO) think of the aesthetic or planned-development qualities of something like an outlet mall as COMPLETELY a background thing. Totally disregardable. You guys focus on these things. The rest of the world doesn't even pay attention. To anyone outside UO, this discussion would be like critiquing waiting room music. Most people just don't think anything when they see "a fake Cincinnati for people who hate Cincinnati." It makes most sheeple think vaguely of Cincinnati, but that's as far as it goes. At least 95% of the visitors to this place will just think "ohhh! price too high!"
October 1, 200915 yr Sheeple? I love that! Yes we play things up a bit too much and Rusty you are right, it really is just splitting hairs, but it is in good fun. I just wonder how long until the outlet mall model takes the big retail dirt nap too.
October 1, 200915 yr Don't get me wrong - the endless hair splitting is exactly why I come here. It's fun. I'm just saying that the intended target of all of this tilt slab warehouse stuff masquerading as a destination are common folks who generally have no clue. They just know that vaguely the place is Cincinnati-ish somehow but they have no idea "why".
October 1, 200915 yr I don't think it looks THAT bad (aside from that terrible little tent/roof thing...), and yes it is an improvement of going all the way up to Jeffersonville. It does appear to have been built thriftfully, but I guess it is an outlet mall after all. It serves its purpose, and I doubt anyone even really considers the design, or its use of Cincinnati motifs.
October 1, 200915 yr Cincinnati projectile vomited towards the north and out of the bacteria that festered and grew this place resulted. On a serious note, I want Cincinnati's name removed from this vile project! Why can't it be called West Chester "premium outlets"?
October 2, 200915 yr Whats deranged is your thought that a mall 29 miles away from Cinci with the name "Cinci" in it is OK.....and that is stealing jobs and revenue from Cinci. Get over that! You can't possibly be serious. Monroe will mostly be competing with the existing Jeffersonville outlets (and at worst, the Cincinnati suburbs) not Cincinnati itself. So like I said, it is absolutely deranged to be complaining about an improvement of 40+ miles closer. Listen, I'd be thrilled if new retail were being built in Oakley instead. But it's not. So I'll gladly take the 80 mile round-trip reduction in driving time. Out of curiosity, I wonder how many of you complainers are married? I think it's really easy to spew a bunch of trite cliches about a facility specifically intended to cater to women in an internet forum that appears to be overwhelmingly single or gay men. I married and I can't wait until the day this fake-ass-artificial shit closes its doors.
October 2, 200915 yr Outlet malls seem to have a tendency to be in the middle of nowhere. My guess is that the middle of nowhere is the only place the can find land cheap enough to make these things viable. The margin on the clothes has to be less than at typical clothing stores, therefore the rent has to be cheaper as well for the stores to stay in business. In order to charge the low rents, the developer has to find cheap land to come out in the black. Just my theory.
October 2, 200915 yr Outlet malls seem to have a tendency to be in the middle of nowhere. My guess is that the middle of nowhere is the only place the can find land cheap enough to make these things viable. The margin on the clothes has to be less than at typical clothing stores, therefore the rent has to be cheaper as well for the stores to stay in business. In order to charge the low rents, the developer has to find cheap land to come out in the black. Just my theory. Your theory is not a theory, its right on point!
October 2, 200915 yr Although I don't necessarily like the way real estate prices in New York have driven out a lot of mom-'n-pop businesses so only large chains can afford retail space, making the city (especially Manhattan) seem too homogenous and suburbanish, I nevertheless love the idea of outlet malls (and box stores)! I wish we had one here!! I just hate all the holier-than-thou elitism that declares them to be such a blight. In fact, I'm looking forward to the opening of the Costco in Harlem...whenever that is. You can go to seacaucus (outlet mall ground zero) or long island for an outlet mall. good god, man. Even I know the answer. You have THE outlet mall...Woodbury Commons, mother F$%^#@!!! They run shuttles out of the Port Authority I think (or charter lines, or something). Crap, whenever I go back home, my wife makes me carve out a day to hit that joint.
October 2, 200915 yr It just another piece of merging Cincy and Dayton into one giant metropolis. Its this type of development that is needed to make the Cincy/Dayton Metroplex become a completed reality.
October 2, 200915 yr I don't know about "is needed", like Dayton "needs" to grow into Cincinnati like it's a preordained blessing or curse, but I realized something else. The name "Cincinnati Premium Outlets" is marketing and copy "magic" at work. It tells a passer-by on I-75 with no ambiguity "this the "THE" big Cincinnati mall." No other title would work in that way. If it was called "Monroe Premium Outlets" or "West Chester Premium Outlets" the average traveler would think "wtf? What is this piddly local thing?" I-75 is a major national travel corridor and they want non locals to stop and get fleeced, er, buy stuff. I think "just a local thing" when driving by the Dry Ridge Outlets and perhaps that is one reason among several why they did not do well. "Dry Ridge" is a meaningless bump in a long road, a local name for a tiny place. It's not "there" unless you're from around there.
October 2, 200915 yr Looks like their is an overwhelming majority of crappy stores there anyway! NEXT!
October 2, 200915 yr At the end of the day, it doesnt matter what it is called. You guys worry too much about nothing.
October 2, 200915 yr At the end of the day, it doesnt matter what it is called. You guys worry too much about nothing. besides, isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery? The Cincinnati theme of the mall should be viewed as an ironically kitschy (kitschily ironic?) homage to the city itself. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 2, 200915 yr Maybe someone stopping there will decide that they need to stop in Cincinnati to see the real things!
October 3, 200915 yr Maybe someone stopping there will decide that they need to stop in Cincinnati to see the real things! No Dan, they won't. lol
October 3, 200915 yr Well the architecture did accomplish something. It got photographed and even posted on the internet [and discussed!]. It must have importance, no matter the opinion.
October 4, 200915 yr and .. please .. where is this location ????? :? :? :? :? Er, well if you don't know where Touchdown Jesus is either, this is off I-75 at the Monroe exit.
October 5, 200915 yr I think most locals are calling it the "Monroe Outlet Mall" And assuming that everyone that shops there "hates Cincinnati" is way off base
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