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Tim Hortons will be opening a new location in the ground floor retail space of this hotel. Should be a nice addition to the area.

COTA riders to have free Wi-Fi by end of August http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170804/cota-riders-to-have-free-wi-fi-by-end-of-august

City council appears to be moving quickly to approve an incentives package assumed to be intended for Foxconn. They are reportedly considering a site near Rickenbacker airport for a major investment/operation... City council crafting incentives for firms with big plans Columbus City Council will consider tax incentive legislation on Monday aimed at attracting large companies that plan to invest heavily in jobs and operations at a time when Columbus is competing to land Asian electronics giant Foxconn. The legislation appeared late Thursday on the agenda for Monday’s meeting, and while city officials weren’t returning calls to explain the incentive, the legislation could be geared toward any company Columbus is pursuing for “new non-retail operations.” Companies seeking the incentive also must create at least 1,000 new, non-retail, full-time positions, with the jobs paying at least $15 an hour, and generate at least $1 million in net-profits tax to the city a year. http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170727/city-council-crafting-incentives-for-firms-with-big-plans

Speaking of Foxconn, ... Foxconn building Wisconsin plant; is Ohio next? Wisconsin got the good news Wednesday that Asian electronics giant Foxconn will build a massive plant in the state, but sources say central Ohio is in a very strong position to attract a separate project from the electronics manufacturer. A source close to the situation said Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou flew to Columbus Wednesday evening, right after a White House event with President Donald Trump to announce the Wisconsin project, so Gou could meet at a Short North restaurant with members of the Columbus Partnership and other business and community leaders. “This will happen in Columbus,” said the source, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the topic. “The (Foxconn) chairman flew from D.C. to Columbus for dinner” with community leaders. Read more, http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170727/foxconn-building-wisconsin-plant-is-ohio-next

:clap: Six-story apartment building planned Downtown Plans for a new six-story residential and retail building will be presented to the Downtown Commission next week. Few details are available on the project, which would be built on an empty lot on the northeast corner of E. Long and N. Fifth streets, across Long Street from two other new apartment buildings, the Normandy and the Neilston. The new 260,000-square-foot building would include up to 225 apartments above 2,500 square feet of retail and 180 parking spaces. http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170721/six-story-apartment-building-planned-downtown

Hmm. Very interesting project, but a super odd and out-of-the-way location... I hope they continue to find success though. That could be an interesting model to roll out new-build affordable homes across the city.

Austin is a nice surprise, I think this is the first time we will have ever had a nonstop to there. Hope Frontier finds success and continues to grow

Disappointing, because while I think it certainly could have been more exciting, I quite liked everything I saw of the Crawford Hoying proposal. If indeed they weren't chosen, I really hope the winner is Daimler/Kaufman/Georgetown. I can't imagine the other two finalists (Carter and Indy's Buckingham Companies) as having proposed anything better than what CH did.

Hmm. That is weird. I just came across the site yesterday but according to its google listing, it had been online for at least a couple weeks. I was surprised to see it because there hadn't been any announcements, but it was a totally public site, and even had forms to fill out for updates/leasing inquiries. Because of that and how detailed the renderings and video were I assumed it was the winning bid.

Aaannnddd... It appears the winner is Crawford Hoying! https://www.goscioto.com/ All of the images below are from the rendered fly-through video at the project's link,

Great shot! That went up really quickly and really adds a lot to the streetscape along Main there.

Well that's a shame. Hopefully it's not dead, just delayed. I thought the plan was balanced and well thought out.

Not sure if this was already known or not, but a sign outside the View on Grant project indicates that the ground floor retail tenant will be Stauf's Coffee.

I noticed today that the Stop & Shop convenience store (former GetGo, former 7/11) at 10th and High is now closed and the site is fenced off as part of the Taco Bell construction zone. I wonder if that property has been purchased and another proposal will be appearing for it soon? Also - across 10th First Watch looks about ready to open, while elsewhere in the Gateway Yoga Six and NutritionX/SupZilla have recently closed.

Even with the outlots remaining, this is pretty good news. That Krogers is in serious need of a rebuild.

NM is actually happening. This project is vaporware. Sorry, but are you kidding me? Kaufman has been very consistent with getting things they propose done. 250 High, 600 Goodale, Leveque, and their complexes in New Albany and at Polaris are all completed. 225 Commons and Gravity (500 W Broad) are under construction with steel rising as we speak. The VV project has moved through a lot of big design changes and finally won approval. Kaufman have shown themselves very quickly to be one of the most capable developers in the city. That you would even mention them in the same breath as Arshot is nuts.

Wow. I am even more skeptical now than ever of this thing happening. Arshot has a long history of appearing like clockwork every year to chime up with some superficial new "detail" as a way to keep their stalled projects in the news. They did it for years with the Cooper Stadium SPARC proposal, and now they appear to be doing the same with this. A giant red flag to me is the fact that these renderings of the "updated design" are so exactly similar to the first ones we saw a year ago, and have not changed AT ALL the number one issue the commission had with the design - the giant ad screen (or even updated the bizarre, out-of-scale, Windows 95-esque, nonsensical image shown on it). That leads me to believe that this "new design" is actually an alternate option that was prepared by the architect from the beginning, and that Arshot has had this entire time but is only releasing now to drum up buzz. Hope that I am wrong, but as of now I'm ready to assume this is dead.

FWIW the map is dated August 2016 in the lower right corner, and the hotel proposal wasn't announced until November.

I hope that retail outlot building in front of the Kroger store actually happens, and happens soon. Even with the new build going in across the street, the whole King/High intersection feels 'incomplete' without it.

Great news! Italian Village continues to pack units in quite nicely with both large and small projects.

The CU article is incorrect in saying the building will not contain structured parking. It will have several levels, accessible only by mechanical lift - so while it's not self-parking, it will still be there.

Car2go returns park-and-go service to Clintonville, Near East Side Car2go is returning park-and-go service to the Near East Side and the Beechwold area of Clintonville in its first expansion since the car-sharing service contracted in Columbus two years ago. Starting Wednesday the home area, where members may start and end rental periods, extends north to a stretch of Morse Road and east as far as Nelson Road. http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/06/13/car2go-returns-park-and-go-service-to.html

Came across this really well-made video overview of the Jeffrey Park development. Some beautiful shots and aerials of both the site and the Short North.

Woof. I know it's just a call center or whatever, but still. Pretty bad.

White Castle has the first two floors up, out of eight -