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Just saw this while driving up 71 today! I love that we’ve consistently seen cranes scattered around the metro area for good portion of the past decade.

Alright, spill the beans. What do you know?

Officially official.

So has anyone gone by the site? Is the crane up?

Yep, definitely Italian.

It appears Columbus will be hosting the MLS All-Star game next summer. While this would be a nice event for the city in any normal year, next year's All-Star game will likely be a much bigger deal than most others. With Messi coming to MLS this summer, and many other big name players likely to follow close behind him, next year's All-Star game will likely garner interest from all around the world. Not only will this be a big deal for the Columbus Crew organization, but it will be a big deal for the city of Columbus as well.

I really wish there was a construction cam so I could watch. I'm going to propose a new law that construction cams be mandatory for anything 10+ stories tall.

A suburban office park with a few thousand more residential units, green space, restaurant, commercial, and recreational space. Oh, and you actually people see people walking around outside for more purposes than simply walking from their car to their building. But yea, if you ignore all that it’s just a suburban office park.

I think we are being a bit too harsh on GY here. Everything highlighted green in the screenshot below are buildings which are not residential only buildings. Some are hotels, some are restaurants, some are residential/commercial mixed-use, and some are fully office buildings. Could they have included more commercial space? Sure, but I think they've done a solid job of taking an industrial wasteland and turning it into a comfortable and walkable neighborhood with a decent amount of commercial space intermixed with residential units.

Hopefully one day I’ll make one of these. Having two kids under the age of three does not accommodate my social life very well.

Maybe they simply couldn’t make the meeting?

This is terrifying.

A 5 story parking garage will probably bring a tower crane to Newark. That will be quite the site!

That was awesome, I'm a little motion sick now though lol. He has quite a few other videos like that around Columbus as well.

I would love to know the reasoning for that considering the the extensive retail on High south of the cap and the massive number of workers and visitors to the county buildings north of the cap.

That's awesome! I'm surprised they aren't doing the commercial space on High though. Seems like an odd decision.

Based on the current development trajectory, they really need to add an additional stop between Souder and Belle.

I’m gonna need a pic of the crane asap!

I agree that this is not ideal, but as a pedestrian I wouldn't want to walk down 6th between Town and State unless I needed to access one of the buildings along that stretch which I would presumably still be able to do with the new building going up. Moving pedestrian traffic to Grant is a positive thing in my opinion, given how it's finally starting to be built up, even though I do agree that super blocks should be broken up.

None of these examples suggest a lack of long term plan. Converting retail space to medical offices is a quick and cheap way to expand capacity in the short term while you prepare for larger scale developments that won't be completed for another 8 years. The redevelopment of the bone and joint center will likely end up being a decade after the renovations occurred. It's not as if they renovated it and then turned around and tore it down to rebuild it again the next year.

I have a dream of somehow buying an old hospital and turning it into a massive laser tag or paintball arena. The maze of hallways and stairwells would make an excellent opportunity for creating intricate missions and whatnot. This idea is going to make extremely rich one day just trust me, lol.

Ohio State is pretty disjointed as it has also been built up over a century. Children's is fairly cohesive, but it's largely been built out over the course of ~15 years under a fairly cohesive master plan. That's not a luxury that a legacy hospital like Grant has. Riverside is more suburban than urban, and is a spralling maze of a building(s). I'm not really sure what they've done that Grant should have done when you consider the surroundings of each and the nature of their growth.

One of these days I'll open this thread to find out that a new tower is going to be built on one of the 3rd Street surface lots. But alas, today is not that day.

I gave a "poison" reaction so you could find your skeleton.

I would imagine it was pretty difficult to predict how long it was going to take to exhume the old gravesites. Assuming that's the case, they probably couldn't schedule other contractors ahead of time but instead gave them a rough estimate on when they would need them. Or, they may have just scheduled conservatively and ended up wrapping up the first stage early.