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The photo from my phone I meant to attach instead of all those doubles..

New construction starting on both sides of 1st and 4th, on the west side of 4th. Does anyone know what's going on in the old rowhomes on the SW corner? Apologies for the double attachment..

I like the new-urbanism chops of Crawford Hoying and SunCal. I like the design chops of Daimler and Kaufman, and the financing chops of Georgetown.

This building = another tower crane in Columbus. Hard to keep track of how many there are now! It looked this weekend like they were about to put one up at the Taco Bell site as well. From my roof in Italian Village there are more than you can count bc you can't tell if some things are tower crane's or cell towers, exposed building systems, etc.

I think the new version of this is so ugly. The previous version was better. I'm getting really tired of the ultra-gaudy faux victorian mid-rise. It's barely palatable as a low-rise structure, but when you design a larger structure with such gaudy building faces it just looks ridiculous. A lot of this looks like it belongs in a circus, like a fake storefront for the whack-a-mole stand. It's also really really awkward to blend new with this gaudy crap. On the flip side, I thought that the big modern addition dwarfing the IBEW was really cool and almost looked like they belong together. That's bc one is an authentic historic building while the other is an authentic new build in a neighborhood where that happens. There just aren't enough rich old baby boomer grannies in Columbus to fill all of these faux victorian condo units.

The Fifth Street Arcades have been an absolute retail grand slam. Dick Pace really exceeded anyone's expectations there, and we should all go support those retailers.

I'm loving the cargominiums and Poindexter expansion.

Honestly wish they'd do a larger library in this location, but it's still a great upgrade. More space for community programming would be a good way to ease any issues of gentrification in this area - plus it makes the area attractive for more senior housing, which seems to be following these libraries.

Is this approved??

If you look a little closer at the "Millennial Tower" you'll realize it's primarily a parking garage with some space on top of it. They may be waiting for other developments to create parking demand to drive the core of their project.

They could push the height of the building off of High Street.

This area is going to redevelop with or without the historic facades. I think façadism is a good precedent in this area that will ground new development to the surrounding context.

I think you're right that it has geographic opportunities, but I don't know if it's necessarily underrated. It's definitely still struggling, but there is a clear upward trajectory now. I think Bethlehem is doing better lately.

Delaware Valley is so chock full of great little burgs.

The new Grandview Mercantile design is best described as generica. The prior design needed refinement but not completely thrown out.