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Well, they are building at least one garage beneath the medical office building at the corner of Broadway and Olentangy. Don't know about the other one.

John Glenn International announces 10 new routes for summer travel https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/john-glenn-international-announces-10-new-routes-for-summer-travel/ The Salt Lake flight is one of 10 new routes that will be added just in time for the summer travel season including: May 8 – Spirit to Myrtle Beach (MYR) four times a week through July 8 May 8 – Spirit to New York-La Guardia (LGA) daily May 22 – Frontier to Philadelphia (PHL) three times a week May 22 – Frontier to New Orleans (MSY) three times a week June 5 – Spirit to Boston (BOS) daily June 5 – Spirit to Newark (EWR) daily June 8 – Delta to Salt Lake City (SLC) daily June 8 – Southwest to San Diego (SAN) on Saturdays June 9 – Southwest to Kansas City (MCI) on Sundays July 10 – Spirit to Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) four times a week

View from the Main St bridge during the arts fest

The site was always industrial. Before Rogue, it was the site of a 38 acre Timken Roller Bearing factory. In fact, the entire corridor around the railroad was heavy industry. No one wants to see smoke belching factories downtown anymore, but Rogue is fairly clean compared to days of old. I also seem to recall that Rogue wanted to hire people from the neighborhood (which would be a good thing) when they announced the new facility, but I may be misremembering.

Another view taken about the same time. Looking north on 4th St., Central Market is on the left. Here’s my dad in 1961 posing with a load of watermelons at Central Market. He was a customer, not a vendor.

https://tooledesign.github.io/Columbus_Bike_Plus/ The plan is pretty comprehensive. If you like, you can click on a location and leave a comment. The plan calls for a separated bikeway (shared use path or protected bike lane) along 5th Ave from Arlington Ave east to Hamilton Rd. How would they shoehorn a protected bike lane into the W 5th R/W? I would imagine one of the sidewalks would become the bike lane. That'll be a challenge!

I propose the "anonymous insurance actuary" statue

^Lots of empty lots/building sites in that photo.

There's not a lot of room for parking on that site so it's a small lot - perhaps it's for ADA? The parking can be disguised as a plaza.

The 2024-2025 rankings are in! https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live-in-ohio

A little - that will change once the westbound flyover bridge is completed.

It was built in 1953.

From this angle it's pretty unremarkable.

According to commenters on the Dispatch FB page, Columbus has turned into a ghetto worse that Chicago. I don't know why anyone would venture inside of 270. 🙄

Central Market in the early 1950s judging by the cars. The view is looking north on S. 4th St. at Rich. The bus station replaced this. If you look above the Central Market sign on Rich you can see the spire of the Central Presbyterian church that is being renovated into an event space.

I imagine there will be a 2nd tower crane, that’s too far of a distance to reach the east end of the building.

Nice to see! All of W Norwich between High and Neil should be rebuilt like this.

I-70 eastbound has been rerouted onto the new bridge south of the mainline. You get a different view of the skyline now.

I was in Chicago this weekend and noticed newly built separated bike lanes on a portion of Milwaukee in Wicker Park. They look sweet and were well used. The bike lanes are raised in the area of bus stops. Parking on one side of the street was eliminated. Milwaukee is narrower than High St. I wish Columbus would build something similar along High St. When I was younger I would ride on High fearlessly but now that I’m older I don’t want to deal with that. Something like this would allow me to bike to work directly.

^Good for them! Back when I lived in Athens County, "Meigs County Gold" was pretty popular.

I like your thinking, but there's higher density new development scattered all along Oak to the Kelton Ave. trolley barn.

1955 and 2022. It's startling how much was ripped up in the name of urban renewal, freeway construction and temporary car storage. (images from Reddit) There's good info here too: https://cura.osu.edu/projects/existing/ghost-neighborhoods

The curved glass balcony railings on Parkside on Pearl are terrific!! I love how this is turning out.

The whole area south of Main was like this prior to the urban renewal demolitions of the early 1960s. About 1/3 of German Village was lost (of course, it wasn't German Village then, it was just considered a slum...) 😢