Landmark Comments:

• It would be neat to memorialize landmarks that are important to Oakley’s history, but are sadly no longer standing, or not in their original form. Like the racetrack, the old theater, the original bookstore, etc. Some places are still here and will stand the test of time, but for those that haven’t, it would be so neat to ‘resurrect’ them in our murals.
• Not listed on the landmarks including the now departed Ambassador theater could be considered. It was an major location in “downtown” Oakley and had some distinctive design features. Call it the “gone but not forgotten” element. How many Cincinnati neighborhoods had not one but two local theaters? I don’t know of any others except for maybe downtown.
• Consideration of the now gone corporate headquarters (Cincinnati Milling Machine) building that existed in close proximity to this location . The lobby ranked with the interior of Union Terminal (The Museum Center) as symbolizing an era.
• I did not include MadTree. While a vibrant element of Oakley today it was originally a cardboard factory with typical “smokestack” architecture and not anything really distinctive, but then that in of itself symbolizes the now departed manufacturing/factory town era of Oakley. These murals should provide an vehicle to capture and preserve the past.
• If there are paints and/or coatings that would make the graphics graffiti-proof they need to be included in the overall design and execution of the plan. Sadly it is something to dealt with and compounded with the fact this artwork will be ground level and vulnerable.
• Again, I like any of the options. Landmarks make a lot of sense given how strongly associated they are with Oakley, though a part of me wonders if it's somehow overkill to have a lot of murals of landmarks a couple blocks from the actual landmarks you can see?