Has anybody heard what's going on at the old Pro Bowl site? It appears they have graded the northern portion and it looks like ground plumbing is installed. I'm curious, any clues?
All very interesting, it is a very flat area I could imagine a grass field airport over there. It is strange that I never heard of this airport, as I grew up near by. Colonial Village and Church Hill Downs were all there when I was a kid. New homes were still being built over there behind Dwight Rich when I went there in the late 60's.
I know it is an old rant of mine but I walked the river trail over to Potter Park the other day for the first time in a while. I noticed that the old Knapp's warehouse building was still under construction, which looks pretty good. What does not look good is the river bank they clear cut last winter. I was thinking they must have had some reason to do so but the whole area in now weeds and shrubs growing around the stumps. One of the two trees they left is dead and the other doesn't look healthy. I thought they must be planning landscaping there,but it looks really bad now. Does anyone know about the plans for this area?
Also they had posted trail improvements coming signs along the trail in that area. Has any trail improvement project begun? When are these projects set to get underway? All I have seen is the signs.
I hope that you are right about the river bank stabilization, but the trees the were cut down are on the other side of the river from the river trail, in front of the old Knapp's warehouse that is being redeveloped. I believe that it is private property on the south bank. I have been thinking they would landscape the area they clear cut, but nothing has happened there since they cut down about 40 or 50 large mature trees and everything else in front of the building all the way down to the rail bridge. It just looks bad now, maybe they have not gotten that far yet, as work is still being done on the building.
Thank you I'll check with the folks you mentioned. I was just hoping that there was at least a good reason to cut down so many nice trees. Maybe a building already standing in a flood plan can be redeveloped if it has not been flooded before.
As someone that appreciates the international style and quality of materials of the current City Hall, I've got to say I prefer the Beitler or Karp and Associates options. Hopefully history can actually be respected to some extent for once...
Boji's just looks like some generic, over-sized mass lacking the versatility I'l like to see personally. I wish I could make it to the meeting tonight regarding this.
All of the proposals look bad to me. They all remove the public square (Beitler puts a circle drive in it), and none of them answer the question to why these can't be built elsewhere (I assume the answer is that the city will give more money for this location, which is senseless).
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Huh, I still can't see the airstrip on the map. I'm looking at the dark purple area, the blue area above it, and the orange area above that.
It's tucked on the far lower left, super easy to miss. It's in the shape of a tilted cross
Oh thanks! I see it now. Yeah I was looking in the wrong area.
Has anybody heard what's going on at the old Pro Bowl site? It appears they have graded the northern portion and it looks like ground plumbing is installed. I'm curious, any clues?
All very interesting, it is a very flat area I could imagine a grass field airport over there. It is strange that I never heard of this airport, as I grew up near by. Colonial Village and Church Hill Downs were all there when I was a kid. New homes were still being built over there behind Dwight Rich when I went there in the late 60's.
I know it is an old rant of mine but I walked the river trail over to Potter Park the other day for the first time in a while. I noticed that the old Knapp's warehouse building was still under construction, which looks pretty good. What does not look good is the river bank they clear cut last winter. I was thinking they must have had some reason to do so but the whole area in now weeds and shrubs growing around the stumps. One of the two trees they left is dead and the other doesn't look healthy. I thought they must be planning landscaping there,but it looks really bad now. Does anyone know about the plans for this area?
Also they had posted trail improvements coming signs along the trail in that area. Has any trail improvement project begun? When are these projects set to get underway? All I have seen is the signs.
I hope that you are right about the river bank stabilization, but the trees the were cut down are on the other side of the river from the river trail, in front of the old Knapp's warehouse that is being redeveloped. I believe that it is private property on the south bank. I have been thinking they would landscape the area they clear cut, but nothing has happened there since they cut down about 40 or 50 large mature trees and everything else in front of the building all the way down to the rail bridge. It just looks bad now, maybe they have not gotten that far yet, as work is still being done on the building.
Thank you I'll check with the folks you mentioned. I was just hoping that there was at least a good reason to cut down so many nice trees. Maybe a building already standing in a flood plan can be redeveloped if it has not been flooded before.
As someone that appreciates the international style and quality of materials of the current City Hall, I've got to say I prefer the Beitler or Karp and Associates options. Hopefully history can actually be respected to some extent for once...
Boji's just looks like some generic, over-sized mass lacking the versatility I'l like to see personally. I wish I could make it to the meeting tonight regarding this.
All of the proposals look bad to me. They all remove the public square (Beitler puts a circle drive in it), and none of them answer the question to why these can't be built elsewhere (I assume the answer is that the city will give more money for this location, which is senseless).