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The plaza is owned by Wood Companies, so much like your “not on high street” comment you’re off base.

The problem is Kaufman time and time again does not deliver on that attention to detail. Look at 600 Goodale and their projects in franklinton as examples.

Its how my family escaped Appalachian poverty. They were never like the ones depicted in the media of the day but by no means well off. My great grandfather a was the head of the state road district and primarily a farmer. My grandfather and his brother were able to secure a job building a dam in southern WV, which turned into them building 70 from Columbus to Washington, PA. This lead to various other projects throughout the country for several years for my great uncle, my grandfather passed in the late 70’s after he’d divorced my grandmother. My dad remembers living through the move from the hills to the sprawling metropolis that was Columbus in the early 60’s and then eventually onto eastern Ohio as the project progressed.

When I looked at the first wave of houses they were in the low $200k’s, now they’re in the $300-400k range. I would imagine these condos would be in the $200k’s.

100%, hell its even far out for some of their suburbs. This development is a bike ride(for some) from downtown.

I think we're fully underestimating the impact of this project. It is so unique to have an opportunity like this so close to the urban core. I'm not expecting the Whitewater Center in Charlotte, but at the end of the day it could be very close(minus the multi-million whitewater channel).

Gemini Place has seen the most growth overall. If you could go back 5 years and look at that road versus now it’s like night and day.

Allegiant flights to some areas like Savannah/HHI continued later into the year this year vs last. Have to think that had a big impact on the numbers.

My main point is it results in the “finished” product looking cheap. There are materials out there that would eliminate this and the fact that they don’t utilize them is inexcusable. We will never know about IBEW but judging from their past work I would be hard pressed to believe that they would’ve delivered on such an intricate build.

This is my biggest issue with Kaufman and honestly one of many why I was against them in the IBEW project. They NEVER pay attention to the details, 600 Goodale is a prime example of this and they've done nothing to show that they've changed. Until they do I will never be for them building in an established neighborhood.

A little late to this but to me there shouldn't be too many NIMBYs in this area like the Kaufman project. This is also actually on High Street versus that project which was not. This is a high renter area outside of condos on Clark, but those don't have a yard as is, so I'm not sure why they would complain. In general 3 of 4 sides are either commercial or rentals, so I doubt the NIMBYs win this fight, especially with the changes to the on-street design.

Coleman isn't a courthouse and if it stems back before 9/11 then look at OKC. No government building will ever have street interaction or a restaurant, simple as that.

They do that nationwide for security purposes. Post 9/11 the Celebrezze Federal Building on E 9th in Cleveland had concrete construction barriers up to the side walk for years until they retrofitted it.

I figured so after a google search

Which is?

With them being tied into Amazon I wouldn’t be surprised if they did take that risk. The Indy one is essentially in their Short North, but not necessarily centrally located to ALL of their downtown population. And their transportation is no better than Columbus’. I think it would be smart to be built in the RiverSouth area because you would attract GV, OTE or even Bexley. Short North would still have the option of there or UA. To get somewhat back on topic I love the idea of this DGX. I had read somewhere that some cities were banning Dollar Generals and the like from urban areas and food deserts. Love that they have these as an option.

My argument would be to look at the populations of SN/VV/HW, German Village, OTE & now Franklinton. Add those in with downtown because technically SN is our "Midtown" and we have a population that far exceeds the 30k mark.

Damn, I missed that, my apologies @Pablo

Since when? I’ve never seen/heard this announced officially or as a rumor.

Might be late here, but wasn't the R&D supposed to be included in the HQ facility on Public Square? Something tells me this whole project isn't happening.

The new Westland development plan looked like it could have space for the movie theater. That needs to happen, incentivize the sh*t out of it and get it done.

An update version of this would be awesome! And finally something aesthetically pleasing for the architectural diversity complainers.

Campus Partners are a bunch of ass clowns, they need to stick to their guns and treat Gateway as what it was originally planned to be and that is a fun place to work and play. Problem is they didn't like the play part and jacked up rent to make doing any business there not feasible. Hell I can remember in college them trying to bust the original Cazsuelas so much and now they had to let them into Gateway to keep occupancy up. They need to turn the retail portion over to a property management company so they can start filling this stuff up and stop renting to themselves(aka OSU).

That's some good framing work on the Schottenstein building, which is what probably pisses me off most about them as a whole. This family has the money and know-how to do some great things, just make them happen. A lot of these developers are getting pretty good returns on some pretty mediocre builds.

There is a complex in Indy with a similar setup, a bit odd but not out of the ordinary.