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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.

Thank goodness we don't have (and seemingly won't ever have) any form of transit that would help w the parking crunch!

A walkway and multi-modal hub should be designed so it can be incorporated with a future development at this site. What the city has designed for the multi-modal hub can do that, but the walkway cannot. If the original idea for the walkway was reconsidered, but broken up in two walkways, it could served the planned hub and future development. One walkway could be over the tracks and another over the Shoreway with the transportation hub in between. Ultimately the tracks will be the easier space to cap or do air rights development over, so a more permanent or landmark, shorter, lakefront bridge could be designed over the shoreway.

Agree with Dougal. There are still a lot of possibilities here, and I like the Rosales bridge, but two problems w that: 1, we know we're getting a value-engineered version of the Rosales bridge if that; and 2, why build something that could take other options off the table in the near future. Downtown Cleveland as we know it today is really only 8-10 years old. I think with the truly unprecedented rate of change now that a Cleveland resurgence is sticking, Cleveland probably could pull off something as visionary as air-rights TOD in another decade. Some inevitable factors that must be considered: 1, something has to happen with that Amtrak station; 2, something has to happen with the waterfront line; 3, something will happen with all of the vacant land north of the shoreway; and 4, some drastic changes are going to have to happen with RTA. I don't think we should make this decision right this second. In a dream scenario, it would be awesome to see this site include the Caceres and Canonono proposal, incorporating air rights TOD. Leverage the TOD/TIF matched with some state capital dollars and the next sin tax renewal, and done.

Lol. Touche on "bars with character," which is ironic bc the building stock is perfect, which is the only point I was making. It reminds me of Rainey Street in Austin or NW 16th in OKC, both of which are fiercely preserving their quaint/cottage-like character while getting hemmed in with medium/high-density infill. It's that contrast that says "oh, this is cool and different." Dallas also has a ton of these really cool one-story/patio bars (like the Ginger Bread Man) that are totally dwarfed by adjacent condo high-rises. In that instance, the bland condo high-rise sort of depends on those old hole in the wall bars next door to ground them amongst the surrounding eclectic urban fabric. Unfortunately, you know those bars aren't long for this world, and that's what I'm afraid is going to happen to the North Market area, which was already under development pressure before Wood wanted to build a tower that belongs on 3rd. This is why downtowns are made up of suitable areas for towers distinctly separate from the historic districts. Otherwise how do you arbitrarily decide how to weight those priorities, and what is really your goal with a building code and design standards? I'm just saying right now Wood does not have vested rights to build an over-bearing tower here, so that's outside the realm of higher and better use as currently defined. However, once you let Wood build that big of a tower, then anyone may as well have investment-backed privileges to demolish ALL of Park Street. For all we know that could be the plan for all the parking we know the Wood tower will need.

Yeah this: http://www.riderta.com/sites/default/files/tod/2013-06-07-W25TOD-CPCPresentation.pdf I only bring it up bc others mentioned Columbus' North Market RFP. In my opinion, I'd rather have some human scale TOD, although that clearly isn't happening now.

I used to hound Joe Calabrese. That was a different time. I finally realized, two years ago, that Calabrese doesn't really have all of these fantastical choices that I used to think he had. Or else there would already be streetcar all the way down West 25th to Parma and RTA would be saved by now... I think ultimately, Calabrese's options are a function of this region and our negligible support for transit. But we are thrilled to death with all of the uber-oriented development in all the "good parts" of Cleveland. It's almost urban, even.

Yea, what a shame that Cleveland does not have the same visionaries as Columbus does per our WSM. I like to dream, and here is my dream for the WSM parking lots. First of all, the city should have never closed off W. 24th St. The street should have been kept open, and on both of the parking lots, retail/parking/living should have been built. W. 25th is at its saturation point, and there is not much empty space left to put in retail on W. 25th. Yes, there is room to expand W.25th retail/parking/living if a developer could take over the Lutheran Hosp. parking lot on W. 25th and Jay Ave., but what is the possibly of that in the near future? And there is the shopping center on the SE corner of W. 25th and Lorain Ave., which had a few proposals shown here on UO which did not come to fruition. I think the city of CLE owns both of the parking lots (now one combined lot) on the former W. 24th St., but a much better plan for those lots would have been underground parking for the people living in apts/condo's which could be build on top of ground level retail with parking above for WSM/retail shoppers, and apts/condo's above that. Having two developments of this sort on both sides of the former W. 24th St. would have been much better then what the city has just recently completed. Hopefully, something will happen in the future to remedy the mistake (imo) that the city has made with its current upgrade to the WSM parking lot and lack of a vision. I assure you Columbus has not discovered some vast well of vision that has eluded Ohio's other two big cities, but just to add to your point, Cleveland was first with market-adjacent TOD across Lorain. Not only has that not moved forward, while everything else in Ohio City has, but the Market has doubled down on the parking since then. It could be for the best though. Transit is in a state of free fall in Cleveland, which nobody seems willing to do anything about. If something doesn't happen, the Rapid has maybe another 5 years before it's done. This parking lot is going to still remain as a huge opportunity for years to come, so perhaps the WSM infill will happen in another era once Cleveland figures out transit. Eventually, it will - that could just take decades. I think the free fall of transit in Cleveland right now, from my perspective down 71, is the most shameful thing going on in Ohio right now. I just can't believe how RTA has been abandoned and left for dead, after it had so much momentum 5 years ago.

State programs will just matter that much more. Btw pretty unlikely though considering Paul Ryan and all the moderate Repubs like pretty much all tax credits or they wouldn't exist, and the President-Elect is a high-profile user of the historic tax credit program himself.

I think there are classist undertones, but not the classist undertones that society has taught us to sniff out. The thing about gentrified neighborhoods is that they typically attract the nouveau riche, as opposed to old money, so there's antipathy toward developments that bring in anything other than upper-middle incomes. I think I'm certainly guilty of this, sometimes I'm naive enough to think I've made it, so to hell with all of those slackers who just inherited it (or however this train of thought goes). Practically speaking, upper-middle incomes always have the least amount of real estate on the map (I mean which suburb is really theirs, Gahanna? Hilliard? Some paradise lol), so this group has been trained to be particularly defensive. Paranoid about being priced out by wealthier types, yet unafraid to price out Old Town East / Franklinton folks, and unwilling to pack it up and move out to Bethel Road like the social justice warriors seem to want. For instance, is anyone really arguing that Kaufman's twin tower fortress is going to be too cheap? No of course not. It's a power play by those upper-middle income folks trying to tell people with more money what they can and can't do. Whatever.

Owned by Casto. I've always thought that Giant Eagle strip mall is the last massive redevelopment site in the Short North, and it's also unique bc you can clearly get away with high-rise next to the Thurber Village and Neil/670 exit.