The Scioto Greenways project Downtown is big. It cost $36 million and involved removing a dam, restoring the river channel and moving tons of dirt. Now, workers are finishing the little things before the park’s grand opening next week. On Wednesday, Jim Pardol was on his knees, holding a slim paintbrush — the kind you use to paint a picture — touching up the nicks in the black railing on a concrete retaining wall running along the Scioto River. A wall that runs 700 feet. He was going to have a busy day. “Making sure everything matches,” said Pardol, who works for D&J Enterprises in Cincinnati. It’s coming together, this project that is designed to draw people down to the river with its...
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