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From Flickr. Schottenstein project: Neighborhood Launch is almost filled in: Here you can see the Schottenstein project's location near Neighborhood Launch: And here you can see the 230 East Long building in relation to Neighborhood Launch:

The city owned the Highpoint property. I think they were so giddy that someone wanted to develop around the brand new Commons that they just took the first bidder. They should have broken that down into three or more parcels to be developed separately. Oh well, at least they're not making the same mistake over on the Scioto Peninsula.

My picture from late February, 2018 added on top. Lots of differences!

Perhaps you can take over, because I need to get back to work, too ?

Here you can see Xander on State, the red Oak Street apartments, the Topiary townhomes, and the Library apartment demo.

Here you can see the progress of Jeffrey Park and Weinland Park.

The picture of the Short North @cbussoccer posted came from someone on Flickr that took a ton of pictures of construction progress across Columbus. Here you can see CoverMyMeds' HQ under construction. You can also see the Boat House at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers. That's owned by the city, and with Crew Stadium coming just across the Olentangy I'd love to see a giant mixed-use project there. Something with some height to see downtown. Offices, hotel, and apartments. Anyway, I love seeing the river get low like this. The islands and extended peninsulas didn't exist ten years ago. The ecological rebuilding is coming along swimmingly!

That will never happen because of $$$. It's been proven, I'd say, that the optimal number of teams in US professional sports is 32. They all remain profitable at that scale, and are reasonably popular; with caveats to both of those metrics, of course. MLB will move to 32 teams, and then go back to two weeks of middle of the season interleague with an even number of teams in each league. Playoffs will more than likely remain as they are, but moving the wild card to a three game series. It may even happen as soon as next year. You're going to have a 96 or 97 win team be out of the "playoffs" after one loss. Ludicrous.

Yeah, if winning your division is supposed to be important your last four series should be against each division foe.

Also, why should division winners matter? Is it more impressive that the Twins won the Central or that Tampa won 96 games in the East and Oakland won 97 in the West?

If that's the goal just get rid of the wild card.

Severely disagree. A one game playoff may seem fair to the second wild card team that didn't exist before, but to the first wild card team it's a horrendous set up. Six wild card teams won the World Series when there were just two MLB-wide (1994-2011). Who knows if any of those teams would have won it all if they faced a one-game playoff against a team who might only be there because they have one stud of a starting pitcher? Then if they do get through that they lost their best pitcher for the Divisional Series game one. Or the team with just the one stud pitcher wins the one-game playoff, and gets handled easily in the Divisional Series, because their ace started only one game. There is absolutely no good reason why the wild card series shouldn't be three games. ETA: the reason we're given the MLB season is so long is because of the variability of baseball. That is absolutely true. Then why a one-game playoff? Just asinine that they didn't make it a best of three series like every regular season series.

Looks like Liberty Center's Forever 21 is one of 178 nationwide that could close with their Chapter 11 bankruptcy. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/01/heres-a-map-of-the-forever-21-stores-set-to-close.html

I recommend the Canopy hotel ?

"Despite huge demand for housing in central Ohio, home construction has fallen sharply this year. In the 12 months ending July 31, permits were issued for 3,839 new homes in central Ohio, 11.3% below the previous 12 months, according to real estate research firm Zonda Meyers. Apartment construction has fallen even more. During the same 12 months, permits were issued for 2,751 new apartments in central Ohio, 34.9% below the previous year." https://www.dispatch.com/business/20190928/construction-of-new-homes-and-apartments-lags-far-behind-need-in-central-ohio SMDH. This has been going on for ten years now. Not only has it not been ameliorated, it's actually gotten worse! We need to figure this out ASAP!

None of the insufferable NIMBYs have people who'd want to visit them so they don't see the need for a "monstrous" hotel. The more reasonable people in the neighborhood would probably love for guests to be able to stay in the neighborhood. Not to mention business owners in German Village. Where are their comments?

Can airlines not run direct one way, and not direct on the return? I have no idea how routings work.

A building not done right here won't be able to be rectified perhaps ever. This is probably the most prime development spot in Columbus; it's at the epicenter of tourism, offices, and in-demand neighborhoods. They absolutely should not be cutting any corners. Period. The streetscape and atrium portion of this is absolutely horrific, and it's not even close to being "head and shoulders above most anything that's been built in the past 10 years." You laid out major, glaringly obvious problems this project has become, but then just say we should complain about other projects instead? No thanks. These guys went from underground parking on an unpaid for lot to a street-vibe killing garage. They signed on a hotel, and almost doubled the office space, but still must value-engineer it to this mess of a project? How is that possible with the savings galore this project has come with? They even got $5 million for the atrium. I mean, this is ridiculous, and we shouldn't stand to just accept it.

How far we've come! Great job, Wood! I mean, yikes! This iteration is just awful. This article from Columbus Underground seems to never have been posted here: https://www.columbusunderground.com/market-tower-more-on-parking-public-spaces-and-the-case-for-going-big-bw1 Read through that knowing what they plan on building now and it's a giant slap in the face. Again, if they can't afford to do it right, I'd prefer they not do it at all.

I don't care about height reduction. The increased density is great, but the value engineering has ruined this project for me. The streetscape is hideous with the garage and ugly, useless plaza and atrium. I thought this was supposed to be grand? How can the developers not afford better? They didn't have to buy the expensive land or build as much expensive parking as usual because of the Vine Street Garage. This is a center point between the Arena District and the Short North. If they can't afford to do this right, I'd prefer they not do it at all.

I almost wonder if these people who hear things only know enough to get in trouble as it's said. Perhaps they knew enough about Apple to know it'd be a big project, but had no idea it was being pitched as an Ohio State development i.e. not a downtown tower. I'm sure many comments are made in this realm that are overheard by people not in the know who take them as more than they are, or draw conclusions not based on all the pertinent facts. But I'm an eternal optimist, and what I feel in my gut is that things are happening, so who knows about these rumors? I like to dream there's some truth there. We've been so close to landing some big hits recently. I just feel like eventually we're going to connect on one. I have zero insider knowledge outside of these forums. No friends or colleagues in development circles. And leaks in Columbus seem to be non-existent. It really is quite incredible how tight lipped that community is here. Impressive, really, considering all that's gone, and is going on.

Subway? HQs have been leaving Connecticut's high taxes lately. While they're at it they can let us take some insurance companies off their hands ?