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bumper
MUSA Citizen Joined: Feb 01 2010 Location: over here Status: Offline Points: 307 |
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this is lookin like a smarty marty half a$$ job,did alot of this in lebanon just to come back later to redo..$$$$ ain't that right judy...
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middleman
MUSA Immigrant Joined: Jul 12 2011 Status: Offline Points: 23 |
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Workers at the job today said there are drain holes in the bottom, and will be many more before it is over.
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409
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 27 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1014 |
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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Demolished the pool in record time, didn't they? Hope everyone is happy with the city's decision. Put me down for a "no" on that. Another bit of the city's history just bit the dust. Gettin' a little desolate over by the park about now with Roosevelt and now the pool gone. Guess the city leaders are enjoying their town theme as a desolate landscape. Now, they get their projected doggie park I guess. Until then, perhaps another dump site for more mattresses and garbage and perhaps another fence to remedy the created problem no doubt.
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409
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 27 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1014 |
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Crews worked Saturday morning to cut a drain slot (approx 4' x 50') and to open up a seam that was deteriorating.
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middletownscouter
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 11 2010 Location: Sunset Park Status: Offline Points: 501 |
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Thanks for the pics 409. When I walked home from church on Sunday I walked through the old Roosevelt property (side note: the fence has done an effective job of keeping that place junk free) and up by my neighbor's so I could look down on the site and saw those trenches. My only thought was that I hope they are planning on grading that land so it slopes down to those trenches they cut to allow for drainage, otherwise I don't think they're oging to have enough impact and the ground where the pool floor remains intact will still be prone to supersaturation with poor drainage.
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Bocephus
MUSA Citizen Joined: Jun 04 2009 Status: Offline Points: 838 |
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Its allmost seems like the drain slots were an after thought maybe some one from the city reads this forum? And would the most logical place to cut the drains be in the deep end of the pool any way? Last time I noticed water still runs down hill
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middletownscouter
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 11 2010 Location: Sunset Park Status: Offline Points: 501 |
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Rolls downhill from that parking area into the flat spot that used to be the whole pool, and it will cause the saturation issues if the entire piece of land that used to be the pool is kept flat. If they put slight grading in to channel the water near those trenches that can alleviate maybe. But at that point you're not talking about the water going up or downhill but in-hill as it moves through the ground itself.
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409
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 27 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1014 |
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Bushes are gone as well as most of the front fencing. Stairway to ?.
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acclaro
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jul 01 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1878 |
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Greenfield or brownfield. Too bad Cincinnati State doesn't have a swim team. Read Ms. G's statement about the history of certain aspects of Middletown, the fondness and attachment people had of historic ties and significance. City too worried about aging population and senior citizens than youth. Certainly says alot about Middletown...and its historic society as a whole. Let them eat cake....and swim in a canal or gravel pit. ad nauseum.
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409
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Bocephus
MUSA Citizen Joined: Jun 04 2009 Status: Offline Points: 838 |
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Wow memorbilia some one should have grabbed that sign.Shame on the people that are responsible for this.
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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Would have made a good restroom facility for the park perhaps???? Water pipes close by to have accomodated this? Too late now.
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sunwyn
MUSA Immigrant Joined: May 27 2009 Status: Offline Points: 18 |
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This is just depressing. I am so glad I am moving out this town soon. It is nothing like when I was growing up here.
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Mike_Presta
MUSA Council Joined: Apr 20 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3483 |
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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Mike_Presta
MUSA Council Joined: Apr 20 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3483 |
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I thought City staff was running lean and mean, "cut to the bone"??? Who is doing their regular duties while these guys are running around demolishing swimming pools and reparing bike paths???
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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Voleye
MUSA Immigrant Joined: May 09 2009 Status: Offline Points: 37 |
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Thats the best the park has looked in a long long time. Its about time we can put to bed fund raising and wasting money on the pools. A chapter is closed. (about 15 years too late) |
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409
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VietVet
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And so, it is done. Like the old hospital area, the former parking garage/Swallens/ the old YMCA/Sorg sites and the former Roosevelt school, we now have another area where activity once thrived and now, there is empty space, complete with a desolate, barren, "empty lot" wasteland to view. Nothing really planned to take their place. Just "greenspace". The city is getting good at bulldozing. Not so good at replacing that which was bulldozed. What will we do with all the emptiness being created in this city? How exciting......how progressive.......how disgusting IMO. The longer this city keeps people like Gilleland in control, the more desolate this town is going to be. "Re-inventing" this city is one thing. Tearing down structures and leaving open "nothingness" in it's place is another story. How many sites have been torn down and how many of those sites have seen a replacement usage? Little to none. Is there any indication that the city leaders have any plans at all of using any of these empty sites? JMO
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Voleye
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Just playing devils advocate. The pool is gone, nothing that can be done with it now. What would you like to see there? Would you like the city to try to sell the property to someone? Make it a smaller version of Smith Park? Let it grow into "woods"? What would you like to see happen with the property and if the city is going to keep it where do they get the funding to do what you want them to do with it?
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VietVet
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Is the Baker Bowl over at Smith Park still used? If so, how about a downsized version of a Baker Bowl in that spot? Wonder if Baker Concrete would do the work at that site as they did at Smith Park? (Or is the vandalism and graffitti still an issue at Smith?) Or is skateboarding dying out?
OR The city provided some free music concerts (other than the Broad St. Bash) during the summer season with different venues, didn't they? Don't they have a portable bandstand? Still doing that? Haven't heard. Wonder if the community would be interested in the city setting up a portable screen on this bandstand with a sound system and showing outdoor movies during the evening hours in the summer? The former pool area might be a good place for viewing, don't know. Might give the families of Middletown some cheap entertainment on a weekend evening. Might do the vendor thing at the movies like the Bash does too. Always the comment that there is nothing to do in this town. You could also do this at Douglas and at Smith if enough interest. Just a suggestion. |
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409
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Almost done.
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viper771
MUSA Resident Joined: Mar 16 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 221 |
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It doesn't look too bad actually.
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VietVet
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Hey! 409's "almost done" pictures present an idea..... looks like a great place to have a concert with the remaining structure centered for the bands and a large open area for lawn chairs. Oh.....wait.....that's already been tried......Bicentennial Commons which was last used ......uh......how many years ago? (On a positive note, we do have the successful Bash stage downtown though.)
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ground swat
MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 31 2011 Status: Offline Points: 367 |
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Thnx again 409 for your fine reporting skills. The ace reporter from this site must be washing alot of cars over at the office.
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