Posted October 19, 200915 yr Not sure if this was known or not but right behind the site of P&G's new child care facility (7th street and Broadway) there is a 7 or 8 story abandoned warehouse. It is a brick building with great visibility to 71. I saw it was being demolished today. Is this just going to be parkig or is a new building going up there?
October 19, 200915 yr Not sure. I was wondering what was going to happen... construction equipment (more like demolition equipment) was lined up Friday as I was leaving town.
October 19, 200915 yr I noticed that this weekend too. If it is indeed being demoed, can't say I'll miss it. The building and the water tower atop of it was only used for Coke advertising... I'll walk by it on my way home and snap a pic. "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
October 20, 200915 yr Just a guess but the P&G facility may include an outdoor playground area and if so, that would be a logical place.
October 20, 200915 yr It's being constructed to the left of the machinery (you can see some of it in the last photo).
October 20, 200915 yr I'm guessing it's more parking for those being moved from Governor's Hill in 2010. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/06/22/daily39.html "It's just fate, as usual, keeping its bargain and screwing us in the fine print..." - John Crichton
October 21, 200915 yr That sucks. I liked the ever changing Coke signage out my window! Also, I can remember that Sprite can water tower since I was a little kid.
October 21, 200915 yr Yeah, they really needed to tear down the last remaining building in that area. Give me a break.
October 21, 200915 yr They are just preparing the area for all the new local businesses the casino will bring!
October 21, 200915 yr Yeah, they really needed to tear down the last remaining building in that area. Give me a break. Do you know anything about the building? Condition etc? Maybe it had to come down.
October 21, 200915 yr F THIS SH!T. PG think they can just DESTROY this for what??? some fuckin playground? gimme a break. I love the coke mural gateway for downtown and the vintage water tower. This was a totally cool special building, and this is a tragedy. There new childcare facility is an ugly piece of crap too. this part of downtown is a wasteland.
October 21, 200915 yr are you guys for real? That building was an absolute eyesore and dump. I am all for preserving most older buildings but think we can all agree that it is better for some to be torn down. IMO, this was one of them. I also don't mind parkig on the fringe i.e. by and underneath the highways if it means less surface lots in the core.
October 21, 200915 yr I actually would love for a larger Mr Clean in downtown! The Fountain Square location is kind of hidden and smaller. You can't believe how hard it is to find a good place to get your auto washed. As for the building, it was all but abandoned for years, but one that could have been rehabilitated with little effort. The new P&G facility sucks ass. I posted photos of it here -- http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,21003.0.html
October 21, 200915 yr I think people underestimate the opportunities available for the even the renovation of multi-story warehouses. In Rochester, they just completed a renovation of a multi-story mill shaft. The building originally looked unstable and ready to come down. Now they are nice condos near the Erie Canal. http://www.mpnnow.com/monroe_county_east/x1373201028/Schoen-Place-grain-silo-nears-completion Since buildings in Cincinnati--like the one razed for P&G--are not protected at all by historic districts or overlays, a firm could certainly do some interesting reuse of similar buildings...those that are left. One in Lower Price Hill comes to mind.
October 21, 200915 yr If the casino is not built, Broadway Commons should instead be replaced with a sprawling, suburban 50-bay Mr. Clean carwash.
October 21, 200915 yr I second comments re the absolute aesthetic crapulence of the recently constructed child care facility. It has all the charm of a 1970's era soviet bomb shelter.
October 21, 200915 yr If i remember correctly the reason Dunhumby chose their building was because it was one of the last warehouse buildings in downtown. This building should have never been demolished. It could have been used for a number of things, but now adds to the endess amounts of surface lots in DT.
October 21, 200915 yr While i think the old building was pretty cool looking...and i liked the mural that was originally on the wall...i'm not a fan of the "new" murals that are going up...the ones that are just big Vinyl ads hung on the building. The building didn't look to be in good shape...i drive past it every day as i'm coming in off of 71 onto Gilbert. As far as the PG facility...i don't think it's nearly as ugly as the Cincinnati Cooks building near Music Hall, nor as out of place.
November 26, 200915 yr Photos and history! http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,21357.0.html
November 26, 200915 yr I watched this same thing happen in Indianapolis. All the low-mid rise warehouse buildings downtown demoed for stupid little buildings in the 1980-90's Fastforward and those tacky buildings are now gone and replaced by luxury townhouses and condo (in huge oversupply in Indy, they have a 72 month supply right now of condoes betwween 250-750K. Cincinnati is headed for the same predicament. However, in that really bad glut market, the condos that sell the fasted? The Real Silk lofts and Glove Factory lofts built in original warehouse buildings. In fact they are some of the most expensive condos downtown and some in the glove factory have been bought and combined to create multi million dollar huge lofts that have great view of the downtown. Even the very few small warhouse buildings that didnt get demoed are highly sought after single lofts. While the new development like 3Mass sit largely vacant Cincinnati seems on a path to make the SAME mistake. OR someday P&G moves to another city and we become Detroit!
November 26, 200915 yr You can't believe how hard it is to find a good place to get your auto washed. Mr. Bubbles in pendleton. True hand wash with old fashioned water and soap.
November 27, 200915 yr Cincinnati seems on a path to make the SAME mistake. OR someday P&G moves to another city and we become Detroit! That's what I would consider sensationalism. Cincinnati's economy isn't solely based on P&G's success or consumer care products. Of course it would hurt, but that wouldn't change the enormous presence of Macy's, Kroger, UC, and many others as MAJOR employers.
December 1, 200915 yr Cincinnati seems on a path to make the SAME mistake. OR someday P&G moves to another city and we become Detroit! That's what I would consider sensationalism. Cincinnati's economy isn't solely based on P&G's success or consumer care products. Of course it would hurt, but that wouldn't change the enormous presence of Macy's, Kroger, UC, and many others as MAJOR employers. Yeah, I'm calling sensationalism here as well. Let's not get carried away here. Too much has been lost, but our appreciation and knowledge for what we have here [amazing historical architecture] doesn't fly under the radar ... and to compare it to Indy may be stretching it, well not may - but is.
December 7, 200915 yr Queen City Discovery takes a look: http://queencitydiscovery.blogspot.com/2009/12/always-coca-cola.html
December 17, 200915 yr All that's left... The wrecking ball takes a few swings: ...and some water to keep down the dust and debris:
December 28, 200915 yr What is this obsession with building childcare center and educational facilities of concrete masonry units? It's incredibly utilitarian and prison-like. These are children not professional wrestlers throwing chairs. The effing warehouse had more transparency than that new bunker.
December 29, 200915 yr ^A Warehouse that was being used only as a parking garage and aside from the crappy coke advertisements on the side looked like crap.
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