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I haven't seen this in any news reports, strangely. Building permits are issued, and dirt is being moved on this parcel near Polaris. It's just south of IKEA and Top Golf, and the new Drury Inn. It's going to be a five story Hyatt Place hotel. That makes 16 Polaris hotels open/under construction vs Easton's eight.

https://newshub.columbusairports.com/storage/production/20200124173904-2019-record-breaking-columbus-air-service.pdf They released the numbers yesterday.

Final numbers for 2019: CMH: 8,637,108 (+6.1%) LCK: 308,780 (+0.5%) Combined: 8,945,888 (+5.9%) LCK had a great last three months apparently. 61,647 Oct-Dec vs just 55,122 those three months last year. That's +11.8%.

Columbus is now 52nd (2019). But, have you ever looked at ParkScore's map for Columbus? Zero Ohio State parks are included. The Oval, South Oval, Lincoln Tower Park, Chadwick Arboretum, The Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, Fred Beekman Park, and the Bloch Cancer Survivors Plaza are not included. This would add not only acreage, but ball fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, etc. Even looking at the Scioto Audubon Metro Park it's not mapped properly. Only half the acreage is mapped, and it's missing the dog park and obstacle course. Walnut Woods Metro Park isn't even close to being mapped properly. It's missing probably over 1,000 acres and at least a playground and dog park. My guess is the cities more highly rated have much better rates of accurate mapping. I agree Columbus should be doing better with urban parks, but ParkScore should be taken with a large grain of salt.

Not sure but it's the most convenient to Silicon Valley. I hope we're focused on building corporate connections more than tourist connections. I'm not surprised the Seattle route is doing well enough to add another. I think a San Jose route would be critical in continuing our tech build up.

We need more flights to San Francisco and another to San Jose.

Labor costs twice as much in both those cities.

I assume it's from the airport.

Rickenbacker's foreign-trade zone climbs in national ranking, clears $10B mark for goods passing through "The foreign-trade zone based at Columbus' Rickenbacker International Airport is growing, with $10.4 billion worth of goods moving through warehousing and distribution channels in the zone in 2018, according to a new federal report. That’s a more than 12% increase over 2017, when $9.26 billion worth of goods moved through the zone. That means more businesses are taking advantage of the zone’s ability to defer or reduce customs duties. The report, from the International Trade Administration, was released in November. An FTZ, as it’s called, is a U.S. site that is legally out of customs territory, meaning that goods may be brought into the site duty-free and without formal customs entry. The Rickenbacker zone, known as FTZ 138, is now ranked No. 7 in the country, out of 195 total active zones, for the amount of merchandise received, a two-spot jump since 2017. The No. 1-ranked zone in 2018 is in Gramcery, Louisiana, followed by Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and South Carolina. FTZ 138 currently has 16 businesses participating." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/12/17/rickenbackers-foreign-trade-zone-climbs-in.html?iana=hpmvp_colum_news_headline

Such a weird season. We very well may lose to Detroit tonight one night after absolutely dominating the best team in the league. It wasn't just 3-0. The Caps couldn't do anything. It seems Torts has figured out the Caps the last couple seasons after being humiliated the previous five+ years against them. I just wish he could get his teams up for games against lowly opponents as well. After beating the Caps a week ago, and then taking a hard 1-0 OT loss to the Pens, there's no reason we should have lost at home to Ottawa. OT or not. Tonight's showing against Detroit I'm hoping gives me some answers on who this team is, and where they're capable of heading.

The Dispatch has renderings:

The map shows Hudson Street as being a Greenway Trail. It's just a road with sharrows. That is not an acceptable East-West connector. Hopefully this new plan will include legit off-street, minimal crossing multi-use paths.

They also said they want to literally build upon what is already there. The retail and garages were built to be able to be built on top of. Then they want to fill in any remaining surface lots. So the 20,000 units they said they want to be a part of Easton will come not only on currently vacant land, but also among Easton's already developed parts. I'm with cbussoccer. There was tons of discussion on this just a few months ago. Go reread the articles.

I do agree that MSA and CSA are silly metrics, but you can't just mix and match. At that point you don't have anything meaningful to compare. Because by adding the Akron MSA to Cleveland's you gain some of Cleveland's suburbs that should probably be part of its MSA, but it also nets you parts of a region that is wholly its own in Akron. It's why MSA with county boundaries only doesn't work for some cities. But adding MSAs together doesn't work either. I wish the Census Bureau would go all in on Urbanized Areas. Yearly estimates, GDP numbers, etc. Urbanized Area is the closest apples-to-apples comparison we have. However, when working with what we do have, it's important to use what is defined. Otherwise you end up with strange and inaccurate comparisons.

"Accurately defined". The same definition is used for all MSAs and CSAs.

Do you ever wonder why Cleveland has the most dense built environment in Ohio? It's very likely because it had to. The same number of people had to fit in less area. It may have pushed density out further, but until fairly recently distance from the CBD was a very real limitation. Therefore, the lake caused more density, and when looking at land area instead of radii that include water, it's why Cleveland is the most dense city in Ohio. It wasn't because Cleveland was just in tune with urbanity or some strange coincidence.

Yep. Buffalo up there, too in midsize lakeside metros. I've never bought the lake decreases density argument. If anything it's the opposite.

Pickerington Central wins the Division I state football title for the second time in three years! Another Central Ohio public school bringing home the title over a Cincinnati/Cleveland private school; this year being Cincinnati Elder. https://www.thisweeknews.com/sports/20191206/high-school-football--demeatric-crenshaw-helps-pickerington-central-take-division-i-title

Thank God we're finally getting outside developers. This has to be one of the last places I would have expected any proposal, and yet here we are with a development that beats the pants off NRI, Schottenstein, Edwards, and Waggenbrenner, oops I mean Thrive. And those people have prime land they've owned for years and years that they're underdelivering on. First, the nice Long Street development from the Denver company. Now this. Even the identical King/High developments have good form. Let's hope we get more eyes here, because our hometown boys aren't cutting it. Their underdelivering, I'm convinced, is part of the reason we couldn't land Apple, Google, or Amazon when we were so close. Let's hope we can sneak a handful of wins in here at the tail end of this boom!

You're linking to the imgur album. Get the photo in its own tab and then you don't even have to "insert". Any link that ends with .jpg will automatically imbed itself.

Not sure. I know the rails are pretty well used as almost every time I go to that Giant Eagle a train is passing by. I assume most heavy rail systems share people and goods transports. Not sure how much cooperation/payments/engineering is needed to accomplish that though. Perhaps someone more familiar with heavy rail systems could chime in?

IDK about expansion as there's no room for a third set of rails. However, a train station platform would fit here...

As Giant Eagle's lease expires, state's discount liquor shop may be on the move "Giant Eagle, which operates Last Call in its former grocery space at 777 Neil Ave. in Victorian Village, plans to leave that site when its lease expires in January. The last day of operation is expected to be in mid-January." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/11/21/as-giant-eagles-lease-expires-states-discount.html Hopefully we hear of a redevelopment soon after!

https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/projects/inpatient-hospital

Arizona State has had interdisciplinary research buildings since at least 2008 when I went to school there. There were plans for multiple buildings known as Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Buildings. I think they are up to ISTB 6 with 7 under construction now. They also have the Biodesign Institute with a similar initiative housed in three buildings (A, B, and C). Some good stuff has come out of these. Let's hope Ohio State's version is a step ahead.