The item is on the Cincinnati Planning Commission’s agenda for April 15. “These temporary practice facilities … are a standard practice among teams in the National Football League as they allow appropriate practice spaces for players when inclement weather occurs and will serve as a much-needed practice space due to an increase in wintertime games,” a Bengals press release explained. Instead of a permanent building, the facility will be a bubble enclosure on the site of a 7-acre parking lot.
Surprisingly, given Cincinnati’s miserable winter weather, they are one of the few NFL teams without an enclosed place to train. Super Bowl runner-ups the Cincinnati Bengals are hoping to get the city’s blessing for an indoor practice facility. H/t to Failed Architecture Who dey think gonna get a new indoor practice facility? The new district would take three to ten years to come to fruition if approved. Sex work in the Wallen also keeps the local residents safe, as people and police are working in the area into the late hours.” “Sex workers will end up in unsafe, if not dangerous, situations when having to travel to one specific building on the city’s fringes, while the Wallen provides a safe, close-knit neighborhood where people look after each other. Among its many points, the open letter raised possible safety concerns if they are displaced from De Wallen, which is the Dutch city’s largest and most famous red-light district. Sex workers, 130 of whom also signed onto the letter, say the city only conducted a surface-level, box-checking consult with members of the industry. Officials have identified eight potential areas for the red-light district relocation scheme. The plan would involve shuttering window brothels in Amsterdam’s historic red-light district and relocating sex workers to the proposed pleasure zone far from the city center. Here’s what you need to know today about sex work, sports, and statues: Sex workers, architects oppose relocation plans for Amsterdam’s red-light districtĪn open letter with signatories that include global architecture collective Failed Architecture is urging architects, developers, and construction firms not to participate in a plan to create a so-called “erotic center” located on the fringes of Amsterdam.