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I think it's a good location. It's not going to be like Zurich's station and it's 2,900 daily trains. Thanks for the heads up amped91, I cross posted this to the Ohio Intercity Railway thread.

The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority has posted the Greater Columbus Passenger Rail Station Study Final Report. At the bottom of this page https://www.meetusincolumbus.com/operating-budget/ you will find this report: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:c7851714-70e2-4629-8394-9ea3d6b41ae6

Driving Park, 1920 or so. The photographer is above present day Berwick looking west. That's Alum Creek across the bottom of the photo. Livingston Ave. just to the right of the track heads downtown. Driving Park is were WWI flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker got his start in auto racing. His childhood home still stands on Livingston. https://columbusneighborhoods.org/video/driving-park-racetrack/ Driving Park is also where the very first commercial cargo flight landed. In 1910 a Wright Model B flew from Dayton to Driving Park carrying 10 bolts of fabric. https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/collections/history/history-blog/2015/august-2015/first-air-cargo-shipment

In Marker's defense, they were the contractor on that project, not the developer. They had little say on the aesthetics of the building.

There were two public housing towers on Summit between 1st and 2nd. They were torn down in the early 2000 replaced by the lower density townhomes. This was the time, as I recall, that the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority was trying to get away from concentrating poorer tenants in towers. As I recall, this New Village Place homes were open to market rate and subsidized tenants. Of course, I could be completely wrong....

1980 - Hyatt Regency construction. Union Station replaced by a parking lot (classic Columbus) that would remain for 10 years or so until the convention center is built. Jeffrey Manufacturing buildings are visible at the top of the photo. The Abbot warehouse isn’t built yet and there’s a warehouse between 3rd and 4th north of Nationwide. 670 ramps to the airport are a few decades in the future. The small white building beneath the 670 bridge is the Amtrak station used between 1977-1979. Amtrak station (photo from ColumbusRailroads.com) http://www.columbusrailroads.com/photogallery-6/gg amtrak-1-1200.jpg

Dublin 1929, looking north.

Yup, the High St. arcade was demolished in 76. The actual station was demolished in 79.

1976? The still existing Union Station overshadowed by the Nationwide tower construction. View from High St. looking south.

Kingsdale and the new Aldi UA Gateway - the garage is up to the 2nd level.

Nope, I don't work there.

I really don't want credit.

Has anyone heard anything? Minutes from the October presentation are below. It seems the board would support a 12 story building.

Is that a waterfall at the back of the pocket park?

Maybe this was the culprit

Saw this post on Reddit, was that you too? Some commenters were complaining the vantage point of my photo didn’t match the others…😐

View out from 20 this week

The final slab was poured this morning and I happened to check the construction cam when the concrete pump was being removed. Not the greatest photo but you can see the freshly poured grey slab. The building is almost topped off!

Ha! I remember a tower crane in the short north a few years ago had Christmas lights on it's boom.

We don't know yet what the 12 story building will look like. Most likely it will look similar to the student housing built at 7th & High - both the Uncommon and the new one underway. Since Lane and High is such a prominent corner and this building will be twice as high as the neighboring buildings, wouldn't it be nice if it was an iconic structure, a beacon? The corner is not 90 degrees so there could be interesting angles. This is quite an opportunity. I spend time in Chicago and there are a ton of 12 story structures. Here's an older building at Milwaukee and Damon. It's a flatiron and built in the 1920s I think. I'm not suggesting a historic replica, just a well proportioned building with a spire at the corner. It has a nice pedestrian feel on the street. Here's one in River North on Erie that's under construction. Very modern. I could have a better street presence though. Here's a 10 story under construction at Milwaukee and Irving Park. This is probably the type of building we'll end up with. It seems heavy. There's a prominent retail spot on the corner and I could see the CVS locating here.

I like it - they can argue that in exchange for 12 stories they are saving the High St. facades of the row houses.

The RFQ (Request for Qualifications) asks for design professionals to assemble a team and present their qualifications to design a new terminal. Teams will be shortlisted and interviewed. This will take time. We will probably have a new terminal by the end of the decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_qualifications The request for quotation is used to hire a contractor to perform work that's already designed. The RFQ is a big deal because the project is real. The airport authority feels passenger levels now will justify the new terminal.

The new John Glenn terminal RFQ is out. This is huge! https://columbusairports.com/doing-business-with-us/solicitation-opportunities

Bottom left in the photo above is the Centrum, High and Town. I ice skated there in high school. Photo below is about 1980.

Not for a while. The steel you see is for shoring. I don't think they have started foundations yet.