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[Unionstation13]

I love cincinnati!

Edited by Unionstation13, 06 February 2007 - 09:56 AM.

[ZachariahDaMan]

Welcome Unionstation, I recognize you from Urban Ohio.

[mercuex]

okay so there's a lot about charlotte and but really nothing about how great cincinnati is ... why is that? im looking at the UC planning department in DAAP; I saw that the architecture program was ranked 3rd by Design Intelligence so I figured the planning dept cant be that bad either. Anyone know any specifics?

I've been doing a great deal of picture-viewing of cincinnati and it looks like my kind of town. A city with fully 4 seasons, nice downtown, planning to put in streetcars, lots of culture but not ginormous either.

[Justiceham]

Just came back from Cincy and it was cooold. Very nice architecture in Hyde Park and great restaurants. I found the people to be most friendly as well. I took some shots of the skyline and it was a nice change to see a city that takes advantage of density (ver nice infill) and isn't all about height. My favorite view is coming around the bend before the Ohio river on I-75. Out of nowhere, it hits you with the mix of lights and such, especially at night.

[kkaplan]

PghUSA, on Apr 4 2006, 03:47 PM, said:

^^Interesting info metro, but your right we kind of got sidetracked on all that.  Back to the interesting things happening in metro Cincy!

KWhatza? How can ya spend a couple years in Cincy and not hear Queen City once? They use it on the news, in the paper, and it's on at least 1/5 of the signs.



Before I had lived in Cincinnati, I had never been to a city with double and tri-level bridges like the Brent Spence Bridge and Western Avenue Viaduct. I was in awe at the steep hills of century old brownstones and flats. I quickly developed a liking to it's hold on the past, and how it so accurately shows how early American cities looked, i.e. Over-The-Rhine.

For those of you that don't know, Over-The-Rhine is a poverty stricken neighborhood that was originally settled by German immigrants. They called it OTR becuase it was across the Miami & Erie Canal from the city's center. In German, OTR can be translated to over the water.

Personally, I like the new Fort Washington Way corridor, and the confusing Ronald Regan/Innerstate 75 interchange. I was further intrigued by Cincinnati's lost subway that was wasted away after lost funds. It replaced, and filled the old Canal, but is now covered by Central Parkway. My favorite structure is Tower Place, my favorite neighborhood is Northside, and I always have to visit the Clifton area.

[JP9]

any updates on Queen City square phase 2?

[NorthCoast]

JP9, on Apr 5 2007, 08:41 PM, said:

any updates on Queen City square phase 2?

Sounds like its still on the table but they are still waiting for enough leases to sell to actually start construction. Word on the street is that it actually might end up being even a little taller than at first thought.

[fortyniner]

I was born and raised in the Queen City of the South, Charlotte, but my dad was born and raised in the Queen City of the West, Cincinnati.  I used to love heading to Cincy to visit my grandfather.  I used to always ask my dad to bring us into town on the wire bottom bridge.  Cincy had a great skyline and streetcars!  I even remember the traffic signals being horizontal instead of vertical. Used to go to the zoo and Cincinnati Gardens, when the Royals played there.  Went to Crosley Field and remember the plateau in left field.  Especially liked Union Terminal, and remember it when steam locomotives were the norm.  Still pull for the Reds and I'm excited about the Banks project.  It does seem to the casual observer that northern Kentucky is the beneficiary of the condos with the great over the river skyline views.
Cincy has a proud history and was the hub of activity for the underground railroad during the War of Northern Agression.
Charlotte, on the other hand, purportedly (no document now exists) was the site of the signing of the Mecklenburg (County) Declaration of Independence.  This signing date is on the N.C. state flag, and this document was said to have preceeded the American version in Philly by over a year.  The largest gold nugget ever found was found near Charlotte.  Today the skyline in Charlotte is one of the nation's best.  Light rail will open its first 10 mile link in November, and streetcars are part of the future planning.  The Cincy metro is larger than Charlotte's, and there is no zoo in the city.
I'm glad to see streetcars returning to the more northern of the Queen Cities.  High rise condos in both cities point to a bright future for these core cities.
If there were a sister city program for domestic cities in the USA, I would nominate the 2 QC's.

[doogur]

monsoon, on Apr 3 2006, 06:00 PM, said:

And 180 years ago it was the location of the nation's first gold rush and one of the largest cities in the USA at the time. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything though.

According to Wiki, Charlotte only had 8,000 residents in 1880.

[doogur]

The aforementioned poem by Longfellow is titled "Catawba Wine"

Catawba Wine

This song of mine
    Is a Song of the Vine,
To be sung by the glowing embers
    Of wayside inns,
    When the rain begins
To darken the drear Novembers.

    It is not a song
    Of the Scuppernong,
From warm Carolinian valleys,
    Nor the Isabel
    And the Muscadel
That bask in our garden alleys.

    Nor the red Mustang,
    Whose clusters hang
O'er the waves of the Colorado,
    And the fiery flood
    Of whose purple blood
Has a dash of Spanish bravado.

    For richest and best
    Is the wine of the West,
That grows by the Beautiful River;
    Whose sweet perfume
    Fills all the room
With a benison on the giver.

    And as hollow trees
    Are the haunts of bees,
Forever going and coming;
    So this crystal hive
    Is all alive
With a swarming and buzzing and humming.

    Very good in its way
    Is the Verzenay,
Or the Sillery soft and creamy;
    But Catawba wine
    Has a taste more divine,
More dulcet, delicious, and dreamy.

    There grows no vine
    By the haunted Rhine,
By Danube or Guadalquivir,
    Nor on island or cape,
    That bears such a grape
As grows by the Beautiful River.

    Drugged is their juice
    For foreign use,
When shipped o'er the reeling Atlantic,
    To rack our brains
    With the fever pains,
That have driven the Old World frantic.

    To the sewers and sinks
    With all such drinks,
And after them tumble the mixer;
    For a poison malign
    Is such Borgia wine,
Or at best but a Devil's Elixir.

    While pure as a spring
    Is the wine I sing,
And to praise it, one needs but name it;
    For Catawba wine
    Has need of no sign,
No tavern-bush to proclaim it.

    And this Song of the Vine,
    This greeting of mine,
The winds and the birds shall deliver
    To the Queen of the West,
    In her garlands dressed,
On the banks of the Beautiful River.

[NorthCoast]

doogur, on Apr 24 2008, 12:01 PM, said:

The aforementioned poem by Longfellow is titled "Catawba Wine"

Catawba Wine

This song of mine
    Is a Song of the Vine,
To be sung by the glowing embers
    Of wayside inns,
    When the rain begins
To darken the drear Novembers.

    It is not a song
    Of the Scuppernong,
From warm Carolinian valleys,
    Nor the Isabel
    And the Muscadel
That bask in our garden alleys.

    Nor the red Mustang,
    Whose clusters hang
O'er the waves of the Colorado,
    And the fiery flood
    Of whose purple blood
Has a dash of Spanish bravado.

    For richest and best
    Is the wine of the West,
That grows by the Beautiful River;
    Whose sweet perfume
    Fills all the room
With a benison on the giver.

    And as hollow trees
    Are the haunts of bees,
Forever going and coming;
    So this crystal hive
    Is all alive
With a swarming and buzzing and humming.

    Very good in its way
    Is the Verzenay,
Or the Sillery soft and creamy;
    But Catawba wine
    Has a taste more divine,
More dulcet, delicious, and dreamy.

    There grows no vine
    By the haunted Rhine,
By Danube or Guadalquivir,
    Nor on island or cape,
    That bears such a grape
As grows by the Beautiful River.

    Drugged is their juice
    For foreign use,
When shipped o'er the reeling Atlantic,
    To rack our brains
    With the fever pains,
That have driven the Old World frantic.

    To the sewers and sinks
    With all such drinks,
And after them tumble the mixer;
    For a poison malign
    Is such Borgia wine,
Or at best but a Devil's Elixir.

    While pure as a spring
    Is the wine I sing,
And to praise it, one needs but name it;
    For Catawba wine
    Has need of no sign,
No tavern-bush to proclaim it.

    And this Song of the Vine,
    This greeting of mine,
The winds and the birds shall deliver
    To the Queen of the West,
    In her garlands dressed,
On the banks of the Beautiful River.

That poem is referring to wine made from grapes grown in the vineyards that used to be in Mount Adams...around where Eden Park is today.

[andrew.w]

Okay, I'm supposed to be packing right now. So while I would like to make a comprehensive list of ongoing projects in the metro area, I am only going to post a list of Cincinnati related development websites for right now:

Urban Ohio: Southwest Ohio Projects & Construction: the section of Urban Ohio which most deals with Cincinnati development; decently active and updated daily. Also see their Cincinnati photo albums.

UrbanCincy

Cincinnati Forum at City-Data.com

Cincinnati.com: Development and construction updates can most likely be found under "business" and "news."

3CDC (Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation): organization which has been responsible for much of the recent development in the Over the Rhine and northern downtown neighborhoods.

City of Cincinnati Official Website