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It appears to go 2018 Population : 2010 Population : Growth %/year : Density in Square Kilometers : Coordinates Not sure why they chose those to put those figures together; especially in the context of passing peak Cleveland population.

Great start! This area is going to be electric in a few years!

Looks like this is the hotel portion of phase one. Good find!

That's too bad. This should have been Westerville's Bridge Park. Otterbein has plenty of room to densify their campus. Not sure why they claim they're landlocked.

Here's a view from the Leveque garage from a photographer Beth Akerman:

From Instagram:

Tower crane for the 15th and High project: Looks like "Building A" will be 91 feet tall:

Pursuit and the Candle Lab as well.

Was reminded of the 2010 Downtown Strategic Plan and its recommendation to build a field house on the Convention Center East Lot between Third and Fourth Streets on Nationwide Boulevard. It got me thinking of a concept I had/have. More than just a field house, of course. According to the auditor that lot is 294,030 square feet. That means two levels of underground parking could hold approximately 1,500 parking spaces. On top of that a hotel with a floor plate of 75,000 square feet and 35 floors tall could hold 1,000 hotel rooms. JW Marriott? Say this building has 100 feet of Nationwide frontage, and runs 750 feet parallel and along Third. On the Nationwide and Fourth corner could be a 20 floor hotel with a 15,000 square foot floor plate that could hold 150 rooms. Ritz-Carlton? This leaves approximately 200,000 square feet for a field house. But who wants to stay in a nice hotel like those two and have views of a 200,000 square foot bright roof? Enter: a green roof. This could have say a pavilion of sorts overlooking Nationwide Boulevard. Trees, grass, flowers. A miniature Columbus Commons available for events e.g. small concerts or American Ninja Warrior. Then you could have outdoor sand volleyball courts, tennis courts, basketball courts etc. Available to the public as a park when not rented. All this of course would be connected to the existing Convention Center complex underneath Third. I figure this would cost around $600-$700 million. I wonder if anything of the sort is still in the works?

Westhaven is not in Nashville. It's in Franklin. It's more akin to Evans Farm than Grandview Yard.

That's too bad to hear. It is new to them, so hopefully they can improve. We need more developer competition. As for all this new build stuff... I will never live there. I'll continue to rent my cheap house in the uncool crescent as I save for a house to buy. The only apartment I lived in was a '60s all brick building in Westerville. Privately owned, small "complex", and excellent build quality. I couldn't see myself renting from someone who knows you only by your unit number and being able to hear your neighbors whisper and flush their toilets just for the privilege to live in a "hip" area. I sure hope those Wood Co units going for $4,000 don't have build quality and service issues.

I was going to say, I read the following article earlier. Never knew Borror was Dominion. I was just a kid/teenager back then, but my impression was Dominion homes were not of good quality. https://getinsight2050.org/borror-embraces-trend-toward-urban-projects/

Thank you. Their website doesn't list that as a service. What developments were they responsible for?

Yes, they went from exclusively property management to adding urban development and their projects seem to be of good quality design, use, and build. It will be interesting to see how they continue to grow as a development company. Hopefully more towards Wood Co and Pizzuti than towards Edwards and Waggenbrenner.

The articles are saying the 500,000 square feet of offices will be on all their remaining Arena District lots combined, not just this one parcel. If Easton is serious about their next phase, and there's no doubt in my mind that they are; then just one of their buildings will have more than 500,000 square feet of offices. Four floors in a "booming" downtown is simply unacceptable.

That's what I was thinking. This thing is moving so fast it's hard to keep up. Of course, FC Cincinnati's stadium just got new renderings yesterday, and they're already under construction. I don't know too much about the order of events with these things. Would the FAA filing come before engineering and building permits? How long before if so?

It's not even hindsight though. A lot of us questioned their limited height, especially on the second building after the first one sold out so quickly. Study after study, statistic after statistic is saying Columbus has very low vacancies, a huge apartment and housing shortage, and no signs of slowing down; and yet our developers continue to propose, and build very underwhelming projects. Some have been outright trash e.g. Edwards at Gay and High. I really don't get it. Easton is going to steal downtown jobs here soon. You don't just say your next round of development is 20-40 floor buildings without at least some talk as to how to fill such buildings. My guess is Easton's developers are in intermediate stage talks with employers to locate to Easton. Existing employers or new ones to Columbus; either way downtown is going to continue to miss out with our small minded developers. Wexner had to go to NYC to find the Georgetown Company to get Easton done and rolling. Perhaps it's time some other visionaries look elsewhere to get some projects of significance on the board.

FAA applications are in for the stadium.

The Beeker complex extends Italian Village development to the north "A few years ago, a new apartment building would have been a shock at E. 5th Avenue and Summit Street, a neighborhood of storefront churches just outside the hubbub of the Short North. But now, The Beeker, a five-story apartment and retail building that just opened on the southwest corner of that intersection, seems like the natural next step for Italian Village development. A 14-unit condominium complex called the Four X Five is rising a block away, a five-story apartment building is planned across 5th Avenue, and a meadery and distillery are a short stumble away. The Beeker, built by the development company Borror, includes 89 apartments above commercial space that in the fall will include a Zaftig Brewing Co. brewpub, DiCarlo’s pizza and another tenant to be named." https://www.dispatch.com/business/20190716/beeker-complex-extends-italian-village-development-to-north

That article was updated. The initial building at Vine/Neil will be four floors. Chipotle will occupy the top three floors. The apartments and garage will be separate. The 500,000 square feet is spread across these lots and their lots along the railroad tracks and Spring. What happened to the Nationwide that built three skyscrapers in a couple decades?

OK here's another article with more info. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/07/16/nationwide-realty-plans-200m-expansion-of-the.html?ana=fbk Not just 130,000 square feet of offices. There will be ground floor retail or offices, 150 apartments, and a 650 space parking garage.

From Wood Companies:

I guess I figured the whole highlighted lot would be phase one. Even if not, it's over three and a half acres. 500,000 isn't much for that, either.

That's a giant lot for only 130,000 square feet.

Agreed on all, however, what I was saying is I think Columbus has a boom like Austin/Charlotte on the way.