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The Meta property is now fully engaged in site work all the way down to Morse Road. The QTS sites look like they'll be operational by year's end. The Microsoft property continues with land improvements. Amazon has many buildings under construction north of Central College on the East side of Beech. They're all multi level buildings. Now they're clearing the land on the West side of Beech up by 62. Driving the entirety of Beech is quite the site seeing trip. Especially with the Intel cranes visible on the northern stretch.

You don't see how the world's largest retailer couldn't even last a decade might point to how difficult it is to survive in such circumstances? Even with magnitudes more density, public transit, and a large government office parking lot across the street Walmart couldn't make it work.

That Walmart closed over two years ago. Also, you don't have to go to DC or Tempe. The campus Target functions well.

https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/projects/projects/96808

A 40,000sqft grocer needs parking guaranteed. This isn't a bodega for daily shopping needs. It also needs space for large deliveries. I do agree it can be integrated better. Check out this Whole Foods in Tempe: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dF9oUWEmKW3kxyUC8?g_st=ac

It looks like if the Nicholas's bad corner were the entire building, and 14 floors tall. Yikes!

From the Dispatch

Looks like Chambers is getting yet another five story apartment building.

Looks plenty big enough to me. Dug in the way Lower.com, Huntington, and Nationwide are, and with walls or pines on a steep slope next to the tracks it would be both a large outdoor venue, and intimate at the same time.

I was told the underside of balconies can't/shouldn't be painted.

I posted them in the previous comment.

Spaghetti Warehouse replacement apartment complex to include bar, homage to site's past "Two apartment buildings, one of them with a bar, would replace the Spaghetti Warehouse building on West Broad Street under new plans that pay homage to the property's history. The plans provide more detail to concepts presented in October by the property's owners, who demolished the Spaghetti Warehouse building in February to make way for the development. The plans call for two seven-story buildings housing a total of 250 apartments in a complex called The Macklin, in honor of a hotel that once stood on the property." https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/real-estate/2025/04/15/an-inside-look-at-the-complex-planned-on-spaghetti-warehouse-site/83098498007/

Spaghetti Warehouse site is now called the Macklin:

Looks like Jaggers, a fast food burger joint owned by Texas Roadhouse, wants to open a location in the parking lot next to Marcella's at Polaris.

They can't even stain it? That seems dumb for the kind of exposure it gets.

I see they don't like to paint the underside of their balconies either.

New Albany International Business Park land is not cheap. The New Albany Company has probably made close to $1 billion in land sales profit since 2016. Tax abatements are only for improvements. These companies are still paying what was being paid even with a 100% abatement. The construction and installation jobs don't go away when the centers are "complete". They've also bolstered our trades economy. The demand from these has forced upgrades and expansions of energy, transportation, and network infrastructure. Vertiv is a local company on the verge of becoming Fortune 500 largely because of these data centers. The trope that these only employ 30 is nonsense. Look at the aerial of the "completed" AWS site in New Albany. There are nearly 200 cars behind the gates. If these places had such high supply:demand of labor, their job boards probably wouldn't always have dozens of openings. I find it hard to believe that hundreds of communities across the US continue to lure and capture these investments with no benefit to the community.

Here's one from the Dispatch, too:

"Pushes Back" and "Delays", but the Dispatch headline is "Backs Out". Lazy, incompetent, or just negative? They've already spent hundreds of millions on land. They already have equipment on site in New Albany where they plan to do site work and infrastructure work. They have not backed out.

I believe Chase does this for the apartments surrounding the McCoy Center.

Yeah that's been on the books for a few years now. Even better this will be in both directions.