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They are probably just talking about the downtown area, but you are right the new hospital tower will be about 410' tall.

It looks like North Market Tower will officially be named the Merchant Building to honor the merchants that make the North Market possible. The name will be prominently featured at the top of the tower. According to the article, construction will begin "sometime this year" and take 36 months to complete. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/05/26/north-market-tower-update.html?ana=TRUEANTHEMFB_CO&csrc=6398&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A New Content (Feed)&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0EPKcmiJKzFAbfvnKHIPyK7d031n1rimvgN7gWt0m8nuSg_C7g8Ovv6q0

Some of them probably aren't used too much anymore, but the ones at Nationwide really frustrate me. I get why Nationwide would want to do it, but from an urban planning perspective it's incredibly frustrating. The walkways at High and Nationwide would actually be an awesome opportunity for something like what they are doing with the PNC walkway given its proximity to the biggest tourist/entertainment attractions in the city. It would probably get a ton of use and would become extremely popular as a photo opp if they created a little cutout above High Street so people could have that as a back drop for their Instagram selfies. It's also connected to Sensenbrenner Park so it could really help encourage more use of that space as well.

Oh for sure. And it's such a shame they have to do something like this. We could have had numerous 15+ story buildings completed by now, or currently under construction, up and down High street if it weren't various commissions being completely unreasonable.

The shorter version looks horrible. The architecture of the taller version is very nice and unique to what is currently being built around the city. Hopefully the commission will let them build it, but I won't hold my breath.

We still have way too many, unfortunately. Some of them are understandable, such as the walkways at Grant, but many of them are unnecessary. Just imagine if all the Nationwide employees were forced to actually walk on the street during the day rather than being able to park, walk to their desks, walk to meetings in completely different buildings, and even get lunch, all without ever going outside. Pedestrian activity would explode in that area of downtown. You would create a market for coffee shops and delis. It would feel completely different compared to now when you drive into downtown from the Short North it just feels dead once you hit the Nationwide campus. Nationwide Pedestrian Bridges: Other Pedestrian Bridges:

So your proposal is to build an entire new street grid one story above the current street grid for people to walk around on or sit and eat their lunch on? Am I following your proposal correctly?

You are contradicting yourself. You complain about Columbus being too car focused, yet you support more pedestrian bridges/walkways that only work to enhance the car centricity. I'm a bit confused.

He's not wrong though. Pedestrian activity should be occurring at the street level as much as possible and there are a number of streets in the downtown area (Broad, 3rd, 4th, Spring, Long, etc.) that need to be made more pedestrian friendly.

It's kind of difficult to decipher whether it's truly dependent on receiving the TMUD or if this is essentially them saying they "need" it in order to have a better chancing of being granted it and saving themselves some money.

Thats exactly what I thought when I read the letter detailing each iteration that the commission essentially struck down.

This is about the worst time for anyone to be asking the average person to fork over more money in any way, shape, or form. They might be better off to delay bringing this to the voters until the inflation/economic issues begin to subside. I highly doubt it would pass this year, and returning to voters after failing to gain support the first time is incredibly difficult even if the economy is in a better place. Maybe delaying a year or two could give them a better chance of getting it passed on the first try.

Glick's had an awesome sign and storefront! Such a shame we lost all these buildings.

Concourse C isn't bursting at the seams like Concourse A because it's larger while servicing 200k less passengers than Concourse A YTD. According to ridership info that has been released through March, here's how the concourses rank in terms of total passengers: 1. Concourse B: 697,239 2. Concourse A: 532,990 3. Concourse C: 322,457

I had two round trip flights out of CMH last week, and I have to say it's a good thing things are rolling on the new terminal because things were really bursting at the seems. I flew on Southwest for both trips, and the Southwest terminal was completely packed during every flight out of and into CMH. The terminal is simply not large enough to comfortably hold the number of people trying to move through there when the planes are full. Getting through security generally isn't an issue, but bathrooms, restaurants, and seating space is at a premium. I can't wait to see some solidified plans for the new terminal.

Columbus, Cincinnati and Nashville all have relatively well supported MLS teams. It’s odd that you are ignoring those. StL will also have an MLS team starting next year and by all accounts they will be very well supported.

Storms rolling over Columbus last night.

Yep, forgot about the Half Marathon as well. It's still mind boggling to me how much faster it is to get on the highway after a game at the new stadium compared to the old stadium. For a crowd of 19k at the old stadium, you would usually be looking at a 40+ minute wait trying to get out of the parking lot. I'm pretty sure from the time I walked out of the stadium until the time I got back to Groveport, it wasn't much longer than 40 minutes.

I was downtown Saturday afternoon/evening for the Crew game, and holy cow was the city hopping. We had some food and beers at Barley's on High in the afternoon and people were everywhere. It appeared there was some sort of cheer/dance competition happening at the convention center. Then we walked down High and Nationwide all the way to LDC for the Crew game, and there were people all over the place. The Clippers game was just wrapping up so the crowd was trickling out of Huntington Park while people were arriving for the Crew game and a concert at NWA. Altogether, there were about 40,000 people in the AD between the Crew game (19k), the Clippers game (7k), and NWA (14k). It was really nice to see so many people out and about. I'll never get tired of seeing nearly 20k Crew fans streaming shoulder to shoulder down Nationwide Blvd after Crew win.

As I expected, additional crane sections are now site as they prep for another crane jump.

Wow, that's a nice looking building. Very unique compared to most buildings going up nowadays.

Nope, definitely saw them too lol

This listing on Zillow is crazy... https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12026-Jug-Street-Rd-NW-Johnstown-OH-43031/97147853_zpid/

Steel really seems to be rising fast. I don't think it will be too much longer before we see another crane jump.

I’m not giving anyone credit. I’m simply pointing out the distinction in the two situations.