tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post8507373299885060889..comments2023-09-05T03:42:45.586-04:00Comments on Queen City Discovery: End of the Hudepohl BreweryRonny Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028420637930256541noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-56008448180308452882019-06-18T14:07:19.007-04:002019-06-18T14:07:19.007-04:00I think you make some great points. I think the is...I think you make some great points. I think the issue with Queensgate has been that it's been focused on for decades as an "industrial" area. Go too deep and no one seems to want to live or build livable space amongst all that industry. Given that the PORT now owns the Hudepohl site, I would wager that more industrial space is what's coming (not a knock on the port, that just seems to be their specialty). Ronny Salernohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028420637930256541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-56391511276548705012019-06-18T11:15:29.924-04:002019-06-18T11:15:29.924-04:00That area shouldn't be the middle of nowhere. ...That area shouldn't be the middle of nowhere. It's a stone's throw from downtown. Sure, access is currently a bit wonky, but that could be improved, and whatever they are cooking to redo under/around the Brent Spence may already be looking at that. <br /><br />Elevar renovated an old building near there. Channel 19 saved the Stowe School. The building with the stripes that was used for low-risk jail overflow must have been at least partially rehabbed at that time. And there are still functional office buildings in Queensgate. Pretty much the only other major issues around that area are whether there are EPA problems with the old junkyard, the NIMBY aspect of the Barron Shelterhouse on Gest, and whether there is a lot of noise at night from UPS trucks...unless there are treacherously haunted artifacts at the museum annex.<br /><br /><br />I don't know for sure, but I think there may be some pushing to clean up 8th and State/LPH, with the intention of creating an improved corridor between the Incline District/EPH and Downtown. <br /><br />I never quite understood why Queensgate flopped so hard. Downtown couldn't expand too far east because of Mt. Adams or too far south because of the river, so why didn't it grow west? If it was because of train traffic, that isn't the issue it used to be. <br /><br />I just can't see wasting the old Hudepohl lot for a warehouse. I still think it's going to be apartments or condos, but I could see an office or mixed-use/lifestyle complex. Probably not a hotel, since the hotel that's already in Queensgate seems to have struggled.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-47060797816221954012019-06-17T15:52:18.403-04:002019-06-17T15:52:18.403-04:00I have a feeling that whatever comes next will be ...I have a feeling that whatever comes next will be some simple industrial warehouse or something. <br /><br />I think the toughest thing about the building being saved was its location. Even if you could save it, it was kind of out in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps a city with vision could view that as an opportunity and develop the building and area into something useful, but well... this is a city that got excited about a Domino's Pizza opening downtown. <br /><br />RIP Hudy building. Ronny Salernohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028420637930256541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-84969699379189150222019-06-17T13:40:39.268-04:002019-06-17T13:40:39.268-04:00As a Westsider, I hate to see the Hudepohl buildin...As a Westsider, I hate to see the Hudepohl building and the iconic smokestack go. I hope whatever goes into that spot gives a nod to recreating the architecture, but I suspect they won't. It'll probably be another modern, boxy, balconies-jutting-out-at-all-angles-to-maximize-rent stack of lofts. Perhaps the Hudepohl building truly couldn't be saved, but if it could have, then whoever comes next deserves to spend exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege of having their view of the downtown skyline ruined by that idiotic ransom-letter-font spelling of "Cincinnati" on the Convention Center.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com