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I think the townhomes on King are also being demolished - in the photo above you can see an excavator taking chunks out of the back side of the building. I can't remember if those facades are being saved or not.

I never realized that the corner commercial building wrapped around what looks to be a residential building. It was hidden from the street. I imagine that will also be removed to allow for the new construction leaving only the corner building.

I think so, along with the townhouses to the west with the angled facades.

Demolition is underway The service station and Ohio Exterminating are the two piles of rubble.

Good Lord, that drops Jim Jordan's district into Clintonville, campus and the Short North like a nut sack (to own the libs). Rural western Ohio has nothing in common with the densest part of Columbus.

It’s still there but parts have been removed.

The buildings at the southwest corner of King and High are boarded up and the site is fenced. We might see demolition soon.

The beer barn has been knocked down.

Looks like the elevator core is topped out.

I like the idea of a taller tower right at Lane and High. I think the max height allowed per the University District plan along High is 6 floors. Perhaps the developer can leverage restoring the existing row houses into allowing a taller building at the corner.

I drove by this morning - I like the walls.

The platform you see is formwork for the next floor. Once that is assembled, steel cables are arranged per the structural design and concrete is poured and finished. After a day or so vertical forms are placed for the columns that support the next floor. Once the concrete hardens enough the cables are tensioned. For this tower is seems each floor is poured in two stages which allows the crews to keep working - while concrete cures on one half they are setting up the other half for the next pour. https://www.concretenetwork.com/post-tension/basics.html

Hudson and N High, 1920 or so

No - it's for one block west were the hotel is located. Nationwide has not proposed anything for their properties in Franklinton that I am aware of.

There was an interesting zoom on the construction cam this afternoon:

Boomtown Columbus does have a nice history of annexation, bussing and win-win and how that shaped the city. Columbus is one of the few cities with regional shopping malls within the city limits. That is certainly a positive with sales taxes.

I wonder if all this activity will get Nationwide off its butt to do something with their Byers Chevy properties?

Yes, but those areas were filled in prior to the 1970s. The rejected development might have been located between the White Castle and the river or along Indianola Ave. I think that might have been when the old 7-11 was built at Cliffside and Indianola.

I'm reading the book now. It's interesting once I got past a few factual errors and typos (John Glenn was not from Wapakoneta). I agree with some of his thoughts on welfare for developers. I wonder if developers would be for or against changes to Columbus' zoning code? Columbus developers are a small group of families. They know the system and making it easier for smaller developers might create pesky competition. I was surprised to learn that, in the late 1970s, Columbus approved a zoning change for Glen Echo Ravine (between Clintonville and North Campus) to allow a developer to fill in the ravine to build a strip mall! In some ways this is so Columbus. Residents were outraged and got an appeal on a city wide ballot where the rezoning was overturned killing the project. I'd like to see a site plan of that - I wonder who the developer was.

I just drove on the new Fulton St. eastbound ramp to 70 East - I didn't know it was open. Regardless, the view of the entire Children's campus is really impressive from this new road.

I'm sure the trees were planted in silva cells and the openings covered with paver grates. The silva cells give tree roots room to grow.

Probably a gut job - they did remove the dormers and chimneys from the house at Chicago and Cable.

A lot of forumers (including me) have been wondering what's going on at Neil and Vine and Gowdy Field. It's the construction of the Lower Olentangy Tunnel (LOT) connecting to the OARS sewer at Vine. https://www.columbus.gov/Templates/Detail.aspx?id=2147515446

The new plate is an embarrassment.

^I agree, the building is just too massive. It's longer than the dorms to the south.