Roosevelt school is unfortunately down and gone--the spot is barren/re-planted.

We now have a parking lot behind, a green space track/football field, and a nice sidewalk path that could also be converted into a driving lane.

 

What could be put in place adjacent to Central Ave. that would tie all of this HUGE new mid-town green space opportunity to the re-birth of the Sunset Park swimming pool/tennis courts/bball courts/park complex to create a major entertainment/gathering spot?

 

A stage/bandstand somewhere to showcase the former park dept. music series? Dog park?

The area is perfect and prime for something to be used by and to involve every sector of our community.

If we can give away approx.1 mill $$ to Mr.Verdin, and the same to Duncan, along with the grossly inflated property purchases and demos, e can study and come up with something positive for this important area.

 

Forget about the former downtown for now:

PAC is on it's own

If Kasich wins, there probably will be no train

the Main St.Project seems to be on hold

The Cincy St.project seems to be on hold

The Manchester Inn is shaky at best

Sorg Opera House is a disaster

BiC Commons is all but forgotten

 

Let's move elsewhere for golden opportunities

 

Come on, mtown--lay off the pointless taunting, and join in to help move forward!

the area has been seriously over-emphasized with little progress lately

You may remember that a charter school was interested in using it last June, which is my guess why they didn't want to wait any longer. Here is an article on that: http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=128D6BB5A3ADDD88&p_docnum=1

 

 

Still--no one really wanted it, or no real deal could be reached apparenty/

Just seems that it could have been marketed much more aggressively by the school system and/or the city ED Dept.

 

Obviously they really wanted this building down, despite the huge whole that will be left in the middle of Central Ave. With all of the historic buzz downtown, why was this less important?

 

I know--shut up Spider!

 

 

Notice that one of the building inscriptions reads: "True nobility is based upon character." When they tore down McKinley, they kept the entrances with their inscriptions for use on Rosa Parks. Both were/are beautiful buildings, very sad to lose. Either could have been transformed into the senior center or housing.

Thst was another main location for the scheduled after school fights.

               Mr. Willoughby's!! (sp).

 

I remember getting swats from Mr.Rettig one day. He was so excited about the opportunity, that he went to the classroom next door to get Gordon Lindsay so that he could watch since they were both friends with my family. So--as I bent over and took the punishment, they were both laughing like never before. Didn't hurt though.