Endorsements are quickly becoming hot currency in the Issue 11 race. For more than a year, the people pushing baseball on Broadway Commons used literature listing a string of endorsements for its site and a few names under the riverfront competition. Now Baseball on Main is winning endorsements of its own.

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Cincinnati City Planning Commission. Riverfront backers argue the planning commission never even considered its site. Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission. Again, riverfront backers argue this group never gave its site a fair airing. The planning commission endorsed the site twice and offered 22 reasons why the second time. Stadium economic consultant ZHA. ZHA said Broadway offered the best short-term economic boost for Over-the-Rhine and downtown but did not officially endorse a site. Cincinnati City Council. Hamilton County Commissioner John Dowlin. Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The 1996 AIA board endorsed the site, but the AIA as a whole has not issued an endorsement. Some AIA members view that as an endorsement; others don't. Cincinnati Park Board. Cincinnatus Association. Hamilton County Democratic Party Charter Committee of Greater Cincinnati. Mt. Adams Business Guild. Walnut Hills Area Council. Mt. Auburn Community Council. Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce. Over-the-Rhine Foundation. Downtown Residents Council. Blue Chip Republican Club. Findlay Market Association. Corryville Community Council.		Cincinnati Reds. Hamilton County commissioners Bob Bedinghaus and Tom Neyer Jr. Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. Downtown Cincinnati Inc. recommended the riverfront as the best site for the new ballpark. All but one of DCI's standing committees agreed. The small business development committee tied. Hamilton County Republican Party.

CONTEXT: The 1996 study, by Walter Kulash of Glatting, Jackson, Kercher, Anglin, Lopez, Rinehart of Orlando, Fla., is the only independent transportation study of the sites that's been made public. Mr. Kulash said in a recent interview that "both sites work well for transportation in different ways."

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