I was really saddened to return to work this morning only to find out that I have a front row seat to the demolition of the historic Dennison Hotel from my window at work…
It makes me really sad that another piece of downtown Cincinnati’s past is being torn down just to make way for another surface parking lot. 😦
Posted by Thadd F. on March 6, 2017
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It’s hard to imagine what Main Street would look like without the Dennison Hotel. 😦
Posted by Thadd F. on February 23, 2017
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They’ve started putting up scaffolding along the facade of The Dennison Hotel after a Hamilton County judge rejected a bid to delay the demolition of the 125-year-old building at Main and Seventh Streets…
I’ve walked passed the Dennison every day for the last seven years. And I can see the top of the building from my office window at work. After living and working just around the corner from the historic building for so long, it’s absence would create a huge hole in the downtown landscape. It’s really unfortunate the owners decided to move forward with demolition instead of renovating and preserving a piece of Cincinnati’s history. I’m going to miss The Dennison Hotel. 😦
Posted by Thadd F. on February 17, 2017
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When I was assembling some of our new items from Ikea, I broke off a screw in a nut…
I walked over to Acme Lock and Hardware on Main Street to get a new screw and nut…
Only to find out that Acme hardware had closed and moved over to Ninth Street…
Just around the corner…
According to DowntownCincinnati.com, the family-owned, full-service hardware store has expanded to 8,000 square feet and now offer tools, paint, home goods and they even have a garden center…
And they have all sorts of pet supplies!
Whoa! They have everything! Where was this place when we were living downtown?
They had the replacement parts I needed, no problem. Woods Hardware is going to be an amazing resource to have just the corner from work. It’s such a welcome and wonderful addition to downtown’s Central Business District. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on January 19, 2017
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This photo popped up in my Timehop today from a year ago…
It was the start of the new parking garage on Sycamore between Seventh and Eighth Streets. And here’s a picture of what that project looks like today…
The garage has been completed, and is open for business. A large part of the building is covered with siding and over half of the building has the windows installed. That’s a lot of progress in a year. It still has a long way to go but it’s still lot of progress nonetheless.
I wonder how many apartment units this building will house, and what will be the starting price for those apartments. Just out of curiosity, I looked at the this this place’s sister property Seven at Broadway to see where those prices started, a one bedroom at Seven started at $1555-1655. YIKES! I imagine these will be in that same ballpark if not a little higher. Also out of curiosity, I looked to see where the starting prices were in our old building, Sycamore Place and our one-bedroom B unit now starts at $1355. With prices like those, it makes our house look like the deal of the century. And I think it really is. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on December 28, 2016
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I think the new apartment building atop the the new parking garage at the corner of Sycamore and Eighth Streets downtown has finally reached it’s pinnacle…
Between Sycamore Place, Seven at Broadway, East 8th Lofts, Renaissance and this building, that’s a lot of pretty pricey apartments in this little corner of downtown. It was fun to live downtown but I’m really thrilled we have our house. 
Posted by Thadd F. on November 10, 2016
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The new parking garage and apartments on Sycamore between Seventh and Eighth Streets continue to rise higher and higher into the sky…
I forgot to walk over and see how the new Holiday Inn was looking over on Broadway Street. But the new hotel in The Banks has really been making a good deal of progress…
And the cutting-edge architectural wonder that was everybody’s least favorite parking garage on Fourth Street…
Now looks like this…
There’s always something new going up or coming down in downtown Cincinnati. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on October 18, 2016
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Back in May, we walked by what used to be the old Bay Horse Cafe on Main Street, and it looked like they were working on the exterior of the building. I snapped this photo but really didn’t think much more about it…
Today, I happened to walk by again. First, I noticed a new coat of paint on the outside…
And happened to look inside to see there had been considerable work done…
Could Main Street be getting another new bar soon? If it does, I certainly hope they bring back that incredible old skool Bay Horse Cafe sign that hung over Main Street for who knows how many years. The sign that apparently and rather surprisingly, I never took a photo of or if I did, I can’t figure out what I would have done with it. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on August 9, 2016
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I walked over to Sycamore Place to pick up a package that got shipped to our old home by mistake. And I couldn’t help but notice that the new parking garage at the corner of Sycamore and Seventh Streets was now opening for public parking…
It’s a whole lot different than what it used to look like, from the old garage to the construction of this new garage. It’s a really big improvement. I wonder when they are going to start construction of the apartments atop this new parking garage? 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on August 5, 2016
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The parking garage at the corner of Sycamore and Seventh Streets continues to rise…
It’s already a massive structure. I wonder how high the actual parking structure is going to rise? And then, there’ll be an apartment building on top of the parking structure. YIKES! 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on May 12, 2016
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