casey

Finally!

Great news lately on AS finally adding SEA as well as AA doubling up on LAX! I'd say the last big hole in the domestic network we're waiting for now would be someone (UA or AS) to add SFO

A lot of these changes make sense, except I would prioritize moving Columbus Alternative High School into a different building. Either Linden-McKinley (which was prioritized for a lavish renovation under former superintendent Gene Harris despite cratering attendance and neighborhood demographics) or North High would be better options for CAHS than their proposed uses as middle schools

Brassica is opening on the next block west and across the street, https://goo.gl/maps/aLZ6Qa7HdT62

Losing the mixed-use building at Norwich and High would be a terrible shame. I'd be somewhat okay with an L-shaped project on the rest of the site, if the corner building (City Cut/Fate Tattoo) were preserved as-is

The project has been redesigned. It's a 3 story structure now with some residential units on the first floor. I don't think it's a horrible change, probably went through a heavy VE exercise. 3 stories works well with this stretch of High St. I am disappointed the arched entry disappeared. http://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20180806/former-patrick-js-site-cac-approves-variance-for-its-sliver-of-project Meh. The previous design was a bit kitsch, but in a fun way, not tacky or offensive, and it told a story about the history of the site. This new version is fine, but totally generic. Happy to have it though, still a great addition to this stretch that will help to bridge the gap between Old North and Clintonville

^ Either that, or "Yoga Off High" could work It is pretty amazing how this little corner has been totally redeveloped in so short a time. Only way I would have improved it would have been including a small storefront at the corner of the Jerome project

^ No there was never a plan for veterans services to be located here, I just mentioned that because it was something the old building contained, and would also be a reliable driver of at least some traffic on a daily basis. As it is, I'm struggling to see how this place is going to get anyone besides busloads of schoolkids through the doors on a consistent basis. What is the draw? If you look at their facebook page, the plans and photos of the exhibits are pretty much just what's shown in the video. Basically, I'm worried what we see is going to be what we'll get, which is not much honestly. This could be Cincinnati's Freedom Center 2.0...

My favorite attack lines from the Balderson ads are that "Dishonest Danny" O'Connor "hired a life coach" and "REFUSES to fix Social Security and Medicare" (as is his job as Franklin County Recorder??)

Disappointing, and also creepy

^^ That video run-through of the NVMM kind of has me worried. It just seems like there's not really enough there, there From what it shows, and given the small size of the building, I'm skeptical that it will really be a major attraction at all. Something to maybe check out once, but I don't see how that is really going to be a sustainable draw I sincerely hope I'm wrong, and it's a smash success, but... They won't have a large permanent collection of military artifacts, most of the exhibits appear to be video/storytelling based, will there be major travelling exhibits, and of what? there appears to be no space for that, the building is only a museum, not a provider of veterans services like the old memorial was, etc, etc... Am I way off base? Does this actually look exciting to anyone? Would you buy a membership and consistently go down and visit this museum?

Wow yuck those look awful

More scooters incoming to Columbus starting tomorrow - Lime adding electric scooters to its transportation options in Columbus Two weeks after Bird motorized scooters appeared on Columbus sidewalks and corners, Lime plans to unveil its electric scooters here on Sunday. Lime plans to drop them off in Clintonville, Linden and the South Side, where Lime already has bicycles. It also intends to plant its scooters Downtown, said Todd O’Boyle, Lime’s director of strategic development. O’Boyle said he didn’t know how large Lime’s scooter fleet will be in Columbus, but called it “a significant deployment so we can cover the city.” http://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20180728/lime-adding-electric-scooters-to-its-transportation-options-in-columbus

So Kaufman may get another shot (or two) after all, if he wants them - Columbus pushes back deadline to get in under existing tax-incentive rules Columbus is pushing back the deadline by two months for developers to get projects grandfathered under the city’s current tax-incentive rules instead of meeting new ones the Columbus City Council is expected to approve next week. Developers that receive project approval by Sept. 30 will be eligible for incentives under the city’s current rules. Those projects also will need foundation permits by Dec. 31 to be eligible. http://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20180723/columbus-pushes-back-deadline-to-get-in-under-existing-tax-incentive-rules

Sorry forgot to include it - http://www.thisweeknews.com/business/20180719/pair-of-proposals-would-add-300-apartments I agree this is a huge downgrade. The previous proposal was perfect for this spot

Welp, :( Pair of proposals would add 300 apartments Downtown Crawford Hoying Development Partners is proposing a six-story building with 70 apartments, including 25 “micro” apartments, on the former site of Swan Cleaners, 255 S. High St. The proposal replaces an earlier Crawford Hoying plan for a 10-story apartment building on the site. edit: link - http://www.thisweeknews.com/business/20180719/pair-of-proposals-would-add-300-apartments

So a few days in and these are already proving very popular. I'm glad they've finally arrived in Columbus. Just sitting at Mikey's for an hour on Friday night and walking around the SN a bit, I lost count of how many people I saw zipping around on bird scooters. It's still kind of a mess as far as people figuring out where/how to ride though. No one had a helmet on (which is supposedly required), and it was split roughly 50-50 between people riding in the street or on the sidewalk

First of all, a 9 story version was fully approved. So they could have just built that. There was almost no vocal opposition at the time. So this notion that something has to be 5 or less to "fit the neighborhood" is ridiculous But, the real killer of this project I have to say has been Kaufman, not NIMBYs or the VVC. They're the ones who came back and opened a can of worms by seeking to alter the previous approval and revise the project to 14 stories. That brought people out of the woodwork, and they didn't really have any compelling story prepared to sell the benefits of a vastly larger project to the community The fact that they ended up going back down to 10 in the latest version also demonstrates that they over-asked as far as what was really necessary to make the project viable. If they'd gone straight from the approved 9-story version and sought to change it to the final 10-story one from this month I think it would have passed easily, flying under the radar as a minor revision with no one being stirred up enough to come out and oppose it in meaningful numbers Also, the other deadline they were working against was needing it approved this summer to avoid having to comply with the city's new affordable housing requirements for the Short North. This is one of the last really large development sites in the neighborhood, and now whatever project is eventually proposed and built here will also be providing a sizeable affordable housing component. That's the kind of added community benefit that I think could have swayed people into accepting a trade off for a somewhat denser or larger project because it is giving something more tangible back to the area as a result. Meaningful investment in public art would also be an example of such a benefit, neither of which we saw materialize with this project Actively seeking to avoid the affordable housing rules is really what's putting this on ice right now more than anything else. That appears to be a hard deadline they were up against, which is now forcing them to regroup Finally, Kaufman still owns this land. They weren't just exploring an option on it, they've already purchased it and spent several million dollars. They'll come back and propose something else to build here, or sell it to another developer who will. I supported this project, but it's not the end of the world to lose it

Risking taking this further off-topic, but going back to the initial comment that started this whole thing... I'm actually curious where you went troeros[/member] in the short north that gave you the impression that it caters mostly to OSU students? What are some of the restaurants, shops, and galleries you visited? I'm asking because the only two places you mentioned by name, Cluck a Doodle Doo and UDF, are directly on the OSU campus (the Ohio Union is across the street) and yet you seem surprised to have encountered students there

S-M-R-T!

What Linden does have going for it though is that it is on the north side, and generally more desirable places surround it in most directions. We're already seeing spillover across 71 to North Linden from young hipsters getting priced out of Clintonville. I think as outside pressure increases from neighborhoods to its south and west, that's how Linden will eventually get turned around - from the outside in Those other areas you mentioned are very deep in the 'uncool crescent.' There's not really anything around them they could even start to grab onto. Nothing good is going to spillover into Eastland or the Southwest side. The only way I see them moving in the right direction is from the inside out - with the development/redevelopment of a strong neighborhood anchor Cleveland Ave also has enormous potential to become a more vibrant urban spine (High St Lite), but I think the housing stock on at least one side has to be largely stabilized first before we see any real movement

So three years into this we'll have a 'shuttle' that loops around a single block? They could at least try out a routing that people actually travel, and that can't be walked in 5 minutes

It'd be great to see more of our local retailers do this. A lot of them try out new concepts at Easton or Polaris, etc already but don't have much if any presence in the urban core

In addition to yesterday's news that Abercrombie is opening at South Campus Gateway, an updated leasing map on Steiner's website reveals several more new tenants - -Good Night John Boy, a 1970s theme bar also opening at Cleveland's Flats East Bank -Elia Athenian Grill, which has their first location downtown at Broad & High -City Gear, a shoe and sportswear chain -An unknown "new tech concept" - interestingly A&F is labeled as "new fashion concept" as well, so I wonder what we could expect here... I'll keep dreaming it's an Apple store ;)

It will never happen, but the region would really benefit from a commuter rail network linking these cities with downtown Columbus