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Are you able to see the crane from 161?

The center of Groveport and the center of GV are both about the same distances from each respective location. Not to mention 270 runs between Groveport and the old Columbus Motor Speedway location.

Exactly. Every street doesn't need to be lined with retail. I think it's good to have some residential focused areas, like Gay Street east of 4th. It's a pleasant area to walk through and provides a different downtown living environment option. With that said, I do think all new parking garages should be required to have some sort of useful ground floor space, be it office, commercial, or residential.

Speaking of trees....where's the best place to get trees in Columbus? I'm wanting a Silver Maple for my backyard and want to get it planted fairly soon to get it well established before the summer hits.

When Columbus Motor Speedway was still operating, you could hear it in Groveport which is further from Columbus Motor Speedway than German Village is from Cooper Stadium. It certainly wasn't loud enough to be an annoyance but you could certainly hear it at times if you were outside.

^ Quote from the end of the post: "This building is just one of the many projects developer and Downtown champion Jeff Edwards is currently working on — stay tuned for more big projects that will shift the Downtown landscape." I wonder if that means Edwards has another big project that hasn't been announced yet...

That would be awesome. Having the PNC, Chase, and Continental towers all filled with residents would be amazing. Another cool residential conversion would be the Wyandotte building. It wouldn't add a ton of residential units as it's not a very large building, but I think it would be a very attractive option for potential residents.

You are correct. The source I was looking at was outdated.

Kind of. One of the Level 1s it's Children's which is a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, so obviously a bit more limited. Here's the area hospitals and their trauma level. Grant: Level 1 WMC: Level 1 Children's: Level 1 Pediatrics Riverside: Level 2 Mount Carmel East: Level 2 Mount Carmel Grove City: Level 2 Mount Carmel St. Ann's: Level 2 OSU East: Level 3 Cleveland and Cincy each have one Level 1 and one Level 1 Pediatrics.

Whelp, that's what I get for being lazy and only reading the headline, lol

The comparison is just housing permits though. New apartment units (and maybe condos?) would not be part of that metric, correct? If so, I would be interested to see how we compare to those cities in that regard.

800 N High is pretty good. One of my favorite Short North developments.

Yes, that is apparent. My point is, 99% of people aren't as weirdly obsessed with urban development as we are and are not going to be very understanding when some developer shows up to dig up grandma just so they can build some apartments.

I emphatically disagree with this. The situation with the graves at the Merchant Tower site is one thing, but this is an "active" cemetery, meaning they are still burying people here and those people have family and friends still around. If someone tried to move grandparents' graves just to build some crappy apartments, I would be livid. Also, Woody Hays and Dave Thomas are buried here, so good luck moving those two Columbus legends without also ending up six feet under, lol.

I don't think we'll ever see truly urban development here, but I don't think seeing some more height is out of the question. There are no NIMBYs in the area to push back on development plans, and there is already some good height to set the precedent. You've got the 15-story Canterbury Apartments tower, four 7-story hotels, the 6-story The City behemoth, the 5-story OhioHealth HQ, and RMC which is 10-stories in some sections. I think the area outlined in red below is the best spot to build a cluster of residential towers.

Have you ever driven through New Albany? Even house that back up to the country club are pretty close together. Their lots are smaller than these lots and many of the houses ~8k square feet. The good thing about being filthy rich is you can afford quality landscaping that provides quality privacy even if you neighbor is only 200 feet away.

It kind of reminds me of getting to Millennium Pak in Chicago. Michigan Ave is quite busy and wide.

People actually think the building on the Commons looks good? I mean the side facing the park isn't a total miss, the rest of the building is horrendous. I'll bet the Edward's building on Broad ends up looking better than this: 250 High isn't too bad though. It's not super unique, but at least it looks like they actually finished the siding of the building.

Yep, MLS has pretty crazy pay disparities because of the Designated Player setup. They've really increased the pay of the non-DP players in recent years though. Look at the change just from 2017 to 2022. In 2017, the fifth highest paid player had a base salary of $450k compared to $800k last year. The 10th highest paid player in 2017 received $165k compared to $550k. In 2017 we only had 4 guys made more than $500k base salary compared to 11 last year.

Yea, quite a few Crew players could afford that Parks Edge condo if they wanted to. Here are the 12 highest paid Crew players last season. Zelarayan lived in a condo in the Miranova tower when he first got here before buying a house. Nagbe lives in a $1.2m house in Muirfield. Mensah, who was just traded to San Jose, owns a $250k condo downtown and a $350k house in New Albany. Matan lives in a big unit in the Industry Apartment building, which probably costs around $3k a month. CBJ players are certainly paid more than Crew players on average, but the MLS has drastically increased salaries over the past few years and I think it's going to take another massive jump soon. There are a good number of players on each team now who can easily afford "luxury living".

Yea I understand it’s largely based on commuting patterns. My guess is the continued development along 161 will end up bringing the areas together similar to what happened along 23 with Columbus and Delaware.

I wonder if the Newark-Heath-Granville area and the Johnstown area will get lumped into the Columbus urban area by the next census with the buildout of Intel. This would add close to 75k to the urban population solely based on 2020 pop. figures.

Yea I definitely wouldn't consider those to be "downtown". I highly doubt it. Any reasonably sized grocer or retailer with have tools giving them access to customizable demographic info. They won't be relying on an annual municipality report.

Capital University has a similar setup. Their rec center/field house/basketball gym is attached to their football stadium. Muskingum University just built something similar as well.

It's inconceivable how this could have an adverse effect. I guess it's good that the State Historic Preservation Office is being careful about demolition of a building that they consider to be historical in nature, but this is just ridiculous. Hopefully they see the light and allow the project to move forward.