Topic: let's all go to a reds game

[mrnyc]

i finally made it to check out great american ballpark 

this is from last tuesday night 7/24/07 vs the brewers.

rookwood


hyde park i hydely knew ye wacka wacka


old skool


heading down




nice views


over the river
 

hey don't forgetta the goettafest is coming up -- we'll want pics! 


my old kentucky lifestyle mall home
 

guess were we went to eat 
   



purple people only




hey cleveland those cranes are not lake birds 


blue moon of kentucky aquarium


river action




hill peeps


no ribs for you!


schmoopy




a good uo type view


here we are






the requisite 'density' pic








olde reds


modern reds -- i really liked these 


so i heard they call it toothbrush ballpark, i can't imagine why 






play ball!


an unfortunately rare strikeout & the chili game
   



his mom got him ken griffey, jrs foul ball right in front of me, no kiddin that was cool! 


   

yes i live in manhattan and still the ascent = wow. nice ballpark view of it too! 
hello cleveland? bueller?


got cheese?




what do we have to do to buy a few runs? 


well i didn't get the griffey foul ball, but i did get a great pick of mr. redlegs with my niece 


adam dunn got a hr, so my dragons season ticket holder father-in-law was happy








yay we had a great day at great american 


*** sorry to say the reds lost 5-3. belisle, who looked so good when i saw him in his last start in shea, only lasted 3 innings this time. overall, the stadium was nice, but given new stadium knowledge it should have been so much better. ***

[The_Cincinnati_Kid]

Great pics from some not-too-often seen angles!

[ColDayMan]

Nice!

[Florida Guy]

Looks like a nice park.

[MyTwoSense]

the apartment building labeled "nice view" what building is that?

The ascent building is hot.  I love the strategically placed "world class signage".

[mrnyc]

^ i dk but someone will -- it's in cinci on the east side of I-71. very newyorky in style innit?

[ColDayMan]

the apartment building labeled "nice view" what building is that?

Adams Place, and it's condos.

[David]

Awesomeness. Please tell me you stayed longer than the 7th inning.... LOL

[mrnyc]

^ hey now -- you can check the stats that dunn's hr was in the 8th....

but yeah we did leave early, just before the 9th -- i know fielder scored for the brewers in the 9th and we missed that.

anyone know when they built adam's place?

edit: never mind -- emporis says 1992. i sure didnt remember it for some reason. here's some emporis info:

- The plaza in front of the condominium building contains an abstract red steel sculpture by artist Alexander Liberman entitled "Canticle". 
- This is the only high-rise building in Cincinnati located directly on the Ohio River. 
- Although technically located in the East End neighborhood, Adams Place is in the far western section of the neighborhood and is essentially part of Downtown. 

[MyTwoSense]

anyone know when they built adam's place?

looks like it was built in '92.  I wonder what the place looks like on the inside. 

[David]

^Blue walls and wall-to-wall carpet!!!

[buildingcincinnati]

Belisle sucks.

Glad you enjoyed your trip to our ballpark.  I did those mosaics too.  Those are probably the coolest things in an otherwise average (but nice) ballpark.

[UncleRando]

I've heard that Griffer owns the top level or so of Adams Place...can anyone confirm/deny that?

Love the ballpark shots...especially this one, highlighting one of my favorite areas of the ballpark.  This new addition gives the ballpark a more complete feel.

[Quimbob]

windy day ?

[MyTwoSense]

I've heard that Griffer owns the top level or so of Adams Place...can anyone confirm/deny that?

When I was look up the building date there were a few articles about him purchasing a unit, but not much detail.

[David]

Photoshop - "select all", Edit-Transform-Skew

[mrnyc]

but i thought that one conveyed "moving down the highway in a speeding car" rather well? 

err.....ok ok so i don't have photoshop - only the worthless software that came with the camera.

[David]

Oh, didn't know you were going for that look

I realized it's the distort, not skew. My bad.

[CiNYC]

wierd, I've only been to two games at that stadium and one of them was that night.  We were just below and to the left of you, by third base.  Nice pics.

[edale]

I've heard that Griffer owns the top level or so of Adams Place...can anyone confirm/deny that?

When I was look up the building date there were a few articles about him purchasing a unit, but not much detail.

A kid from my school lives in that building and griffey lives down the hall.  I don't know what floor though.

[mrnyc]

i owuld think it's one of the top penthouses up there.

wierd, I've only been to two games at that stadium and one of them was that night.  We were just below and to the left of you, by third base.  Nice pics.

small world -- we were about ten rows above the third base/visitors dugout. i still have my ticket: sec 117, row y, seat 9. good seats -- i see they are $30, but my cinci in-laws had free tix for all of us they got from work.

[SDronen]

Griffey finds local home at Adams Place
Business Courier of Cincinnati - April 21, 2000by Dan Monk

The newest Griffey family in Cincinnati has settled into a luxury Adams Place condo purchased for $540,000, a deal that netted the seller a 24 percent mark-up in less than two years.

Ronald Crossland bought the condo for $411,500 in June 1998, according to Hamilton County records, before closing the deal with Reds centerfielder Ken Griffey Jr. April 12. Neither Crossland nor Griffey could be reached for comment, and the exact floor or unit at the 79-condo tower purchased by the Griffeys could not be determined.

 
What sold Griffey and his wife, Melissa, on Adams Place, according to local real estate sources, is the standing plan to construct a pedestrian walkway over East Pete Rose Way, allowing Melissa to walk the couple's two children to Dad's baseball games at Cinergy Field through scenic Bicentennial Commons and Sawyer Point.

Adams Place condos are marketed for between $250,000 for lower-level units to the $1 million penthouse units on top; the units between typically fetch from $300,000 and $500,000. The Griffey condo has a solarium and outdoor deck, sources said.

The search for a new home for Junior was wrapped up fairly quickly, considering he didn't even know he'd be playing for Cincinnati until the Feb. 10 trade with the Seattle Mariners. Griffey and his local Realtor, Barbara Horter with Sibcy Cline, also looked at some single-family homes in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky prior to purchasing the Adams Place condo, sources said.

Adams Place recently sold out all 79 units, marking a first for the tower that opened with high hopes in 1993. Stalled sales in its opening years forced a good deal of tumultuous relations between the original developer, Benenson Capital Co. of New York, and the city of Cincinnati, as well as numerous revisions of the overall plan. Towne Properties of Mount Adams joined the project as a marketing agent several years ago.

Disagreements between Benenson and the city spilled over into Hamilton County courtrooms several years ago, a legal saga that is still continuing, which means the pedestrian bridge probably won't be built anytime soon. No matter, since Griffey signed a nine-year, $116 million contract. Griffey's family is expected to live at Adams Place during the summer months Junior's son, George Kenneth Griffey III, or "Trey," isn't in school at home in Orlando.

If you're doing the math, rough numbers estimate that with Junior's $12,888,888 average salary, divided by the 162 games the Reds will play this year, he makes a little under $80,000 a game. At that rate, it would take Junior a little less than seven games to raise the cash to buy the condo, in gross figures -- paying it off sometime in the bottom half of the seventh inning of that seventh game.

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2000/04/24/tidbits.html

[UncleRando]

I knew I heard it somewhere...thx for the affirming info guys!