[jmecklenborg]

This thread is pretty disorganized - photos from about 4 different walks around town.


























Hillside regrading and new retaining walls above Columbia Parkway:






They appear to have built a new second wall in this area uphill from the original wall:




They really blew it with this bridge. It looked fine before and then somebody who designs strip mall signs got ahold of it.




New apartment buildings on Madison Rd. in Madisonville:




This is one of the bridges installed this year that sort-of improve the terrible pedestrian/bike situation in Newport:







A gate to keep people from walking across the hotel's parking lot:







...and some nearby netting to sort-of discourage people from simply hopping this thing instead of taking a 5-minute walk around the hotel:




New music venue in Newport, KY:







New pedestrian bridge-to-nowhere:







The new KY 8 with its traffic circles has proven to be so bad that they've already modified it with this right turn only modification:




Parking under the new music venue:







I have no idea what the rigid foam is for:




Artistry apartments going up:







These cranes aren't anchored into the ground. Instead they just pile weights on the base:










This building was renovated in the early 1990s and still looks good:







After 4+ years of construction, the Autograph opened right in the thick of the pandemic:




They are valet parking cars for the hotel under the Third St. viaduct:




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Western-Southern butchered Lytle Park:




Tunnel ventilation:













Look at this ugly hotel:







One of the trees they chopped down:




Western-Southern in a nutshell:























































From what I understand this is where P&G's executive offices remained after the much larger 1980s buildings were built:

























































































































Site of a landslide in 2019 or so:

















































































































































Look at this thing:













Look at this 1970s renovation:


















































































This extra-tall house is a bit of an anomaly for the area:




























Wow, look at this driveway and rear parking lot. They're living large:




















































Macy's redevelopment:




























Last but not least, the locally famous "Loveland Bike Trail" is part of the Ohio to Erie bicycle trail and is almost complete. It is a paved (no gravel) rec trail stretching about 325 miles between Downtown Cincinnati and Downtown Cleveland. There is a 60~ mile gap between Columbus and Cleveland but otherwise it's almost completely unbroken.

The first section to be completed near Cincinnati was in Loveland, a suburb about 20 miles northeast of the downtown. For that reason, the whole trail has taken on the name "Loveland Bike Trail" even though Loveland is just one town that it travels through.