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I love the modernist mid-century vibe of this building, the Chase tower and the Renaissance Hotel.

This article explains more of what will be manufactured: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/intel-says-ohio-megafab-will-begin-making-advanced-chips-in-2025/

That article is from 2018. There's been a small passenger terminal there for some time, Allegiant flies out of there as did the defunct Hooters Air. Are there plans to enlarge that?

Intel has been in talks with the State for over half a year. Perhaps the timeline of the new terminal was bumped up as a result? The airplane bridge was constructed with rail in mind, and the airport's master plan shows some sort of light rail. This is part of my Downtown/Airport/Easton/New Albany/ Intel-ville rail pipe dream

The airport recieved bids from architects for the new terminal yesterday.

A lot of heavy hitters in the architectural world submitted bids for the new terminal: https://columbusairports.com/storage/production/20220121085937-proposals-received.pdf

Per the airport's master plan, the new terminal will be located south of the new rental car garage. The new passenger garage will be east of the rental car garage. The south runway was move south a number of years ago to make room for the terminal, as was the airplane bridge over International Gateway. https://flycolumbus.com/storage/staging/20170912123610-brochure-spring2017.pdf

Here's a video here with the President, Intel CEO Gelsinger and Sens. Brown & Portman.

Yeah, more suburban sprawl. I’m glad Intel is coming here but the growth will be more of the same. It’s not a blue collar factory, and with the salaries listed in the Time article it looks like Columbus suburbs will grow more.

Ohio leaders schedule Friday event in Newark for likely chip plant announcement https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/20/dispatch-intel-plans-massive-semiconductor-chip-plant-ohio/6570955001/

If the number of jobs and spin-off jobs comes to fruition the snowball effects across the region will be huge. Housing construction, transportation upgrades, healthcare planning (northeast Franklin county may need it's own hospital) will all be cranked up on top of what's already happening. Will Columbus rival Austin in growth? In my pipe dream commuter rail will run from Downtown-Airport-Easton-New Albany-Intel. The 20-30 story Easton residential towers might be constructed. I'm a design professional and I can't help but think we will get even busier.

^Good on them - I hope they succeed! The building on the left edge of the photo was demolished in 1993, as I recall, to create a parking lot for physicians working at Grant because, god forbid, they walk a little. https://allcolumbusdata.com/columbus-ohio-downtown-historic-buildings/

The Dispatch also ran this profile of Bide-A-Wee, a neighborhood in Driving Park: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2022/01/10/unique-bide-wee-neighborhood-driving-park-has-long-history/9047795002/

Thanks! I went to the museum a lot as a kid when we visited relatives in Toledo.

"Disposable Architecture"

And what is a MegaFab facility? Per Pat Gelsinger, the CEO: “Beyond the Arizona investment, Gelsinger has said the company wants to create a mini-city that could be a total investment approaching $100 billion. "We're looking broadly across the U.S. We're saying come one, come all for proposals. This would be a very large site, so six to eight fab modules, and at each of those fab modules, between 10- and $15 billion. It's a project over the next decade on the order of $100 billion of capital, 10,000 direct jobs. 100,000 jobs are created as a result of those 10,000, by our experience. So, essentially, we want to build a little city," he told The Washington Post last August.” https://news.yahoo.com/ohio-chip-factory-heres-know-181442461.html

This article suggests this will ultimately be the site of Intel’s Mega Fab facility. 20bn investment and 10K jobs. The MegaFab is the main engineering training center for Intel. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/intel-mega-fab-coming-to-ohio-reports-say/

I’ve been here n a history kick lately, probably because I’m getting old. 😄 Here’s the view south from the Statehouse in 1982 or so. What a desolate sea of parking. The Ohio Theater was on the chopping block (in the ‘70s, I think) to create, wait for it, more parking. Fortunately it was saved, what a gem. This was around the time the Capitol South Corp was formed to deal with this.

Streetview images are available from the new Fulton St ramp to 70 eastbound.

Thanks for that! I was looking for a newer photo but was unable to find it. That block was pretty dense. It is a shame the building couldn't have been mothballed - it definitely would be renovated today. From the book "Historic Hotels of Columbus, Ohio" (this is all Google Books shows me):

The Charminel Apartments built in 1925 and demolished in 1995. It's now a parking lot - very Columbus. Located on E. State by Grant Hospital. At the time of demolition it was owned by a florist named Lou Viereck. The building had multiple code violations and was rat and roach infested. Too bad it couldn't have hung on longer and been renovated. It was located here:

Maybe this project is why the airport is starting the new terminal project and why the train station study was released?

Another potential coup for New Albany. I wish some of these high paying tech jobs would land on the south or west sides of Columbus instead of the fertile fields of Licking County. Or someplace where it could be served by mass transit. Greater Columbus believed to be in running for massive computer chip factory https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/10/possible-semiconductor-factory-could-biggest-investment-ohio/9164479002/

I love how the design team plopped an articulated bus on the cover.