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I think a 70->33 connector is already in planning stages, right? Also, New Albany wouldn't have to block a new outerbelt from bisecting it. It's only ~5 miles from the current outerbelt. A new one would surely be further East. Probably the SR310 corridor.

Looks like Megabus is returning to Columbus starting next Wednesday! To and from the COTA/Greyhound terminal in the Commons Garage. us.megabus.com

In another thread I mentioned a Kemba, Chick-fil-A, and a Torchy's are going in front of the Target and Ohio State outpatient facility along Hamilton Road. Across Hamilton Road from here is a fairly new Fairfield Inn and Suites situated along the 161E exit ramp to Hamilton Road. Between that hotel and East Dublin-Granville Road across Hamilton Road from the Target outlots is going another hotel. No branding yet, but I'm guessing another Marriott brand or a Home2Suites-type place. I'd say they're definitely targeting the construction workers for all the developments happening in the 161 corridor.

Any movement at the North High Brewing project at the old armory on the other side of the post office from this project?

They're also building a new one at Hamilton Quarter, and moving their Polaris location from Sancus to across from the mall on Polaris Parkway. It'll be in the former Max & Erma's spot; currently a Mackenzie River that opened in 2016. The Max & Erma's had been there since '97 so maybe their lease is up now? This location is across Lyra from a new Sheetz that hasn't started yet, and the Twin Peaks going in where Lewis Center Kitchen was. That little part of Lyra is already a traffic nightmare. They need to reconfigure that curve. The Hamilton Quarter location is one of the outlots in front of Target. It's going next to a currently under construction Kemba, and in front of a new build Torchy's Tacos that hasn't started yet.

Interesting that Stonewall can work with this seemingly first time company for something like this, but Equitas put zero effort in to the check cashing building. Maybe Equitas can rethink it. Hey, there's an open space with a drive through a block south...

Urban Areas from the 2020 Census have been released. These are not apples-to-apples as they changed the definition, but here are the changes since 2010: Cincinnati: 1,686,744 (+61,917) - 752.3 sqmi (-35.4) Cleveland: 1,712,178 (-68,495) - 713.8 sqmi (-58.2) Columbus: 1,567,254 (+199,219) - 516.2 sqmi (+5.7) Densities: Cincinnati: 2,242 ppsm (+179) Cleveland: 2,399 ppsm (+92) Columbus: 3,036 ppsm (+356)

https://www.qtsdatacenters.com/data-centers

Server warehouses you mean 😉. These are AWS data centers. I also noticed today that back in April QTS bought land in front of Google across from Meta, and just south of the Amazon fulfillment center for $15.6 million. They are a nationwide chain like DBT going in down the road. I see two of their locations are in Phoenix and Hillsboro aka other Intel locations. Strange not to have heard anything official yet.

71 already is three lanes between Columbus and Cleveland... Has been for at least five years I think. It's between Columbus and Cincinnati that needs the work.

The third lane goes to the Franklin County line as of this year. Next year they're starting on something that doesn't really make sense to me. They're going to three lanes in the 3.2 miles 71 crosses through Pickaway County between Franklin and Madison counties. Then for some reason they're skipping a 2.1 mile section, but starting back up to add three lanes for five more miles almost to SR 323. From there it's another 9.7 miles to where it's three lanes for 9.4 miles through Jeffersonville. Then it's 33 miles to SR 48 where it turns to three lanes through Cincinnati. I'm not aware of any plans for these two sections (or the 2.1 mile gap), but the Honda factory may change that.

https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2022/11/07/passenger-rail-ohio-latest

https://flycolumbus.com/storage/production/20221207103922-sample-flight-schedule-from-columbus-dec-6-breeze-updates.pdf

It's just an 85-unit townhome development that's been in the works for years. It got approved in February. Not sure when or why Rapid 5 latched on. The development will have a multi-use trail that will connect to the Westerville Community Center. That's standard for Westerville. It's kind of near one of the "five":

You beat me to it.

This building is only a quarter of a block.

Tower crane coming for Galaxy at Polaris.

This development turned from four buildings into one large building. 301 multifamily units 12,200 sqft of ground floor retail 453 space internal parking garage

The grass lot and other building are owned by Day Companies. It is Waggenbrenner who's doing this demolition. They own this property, the single family home on Broadway behind the Day Companies lot, and the entire retail strip between Grandview Theater and the condo building at the SW corner of 3rd and Grandview.

The fill dirt was being stored on NRI's property south of Goodale before being moved to Twin Rivers. Carvana bought the property at Polaris. They never bought this property.

Suburban Centers is The Hadler Companies, and they own way more than that: https://hadler.com/portfolio/

That's been owned by 10TV since 1994. It had been a Coca Cola bottling facility since the '40s. This is just fill dirt being moved from the Swan Street extension project to this site that sits in a flood plain. Not sure if there are plans beyond that.

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