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The fireplace would be sweet though. It would be very useful (at least in the evenings) for 8-9 months out of the year.

I agree with this. If you have a project that qualifies for the TMUD, you would be stupid to not apply. But this project was planned out well in advance of the TMUD coming into existence, so I doubt it's something they absolutely need to make the project happen. I'm still feeling pretty iffy on Harmony, but if we can get this and Harmony built along with Hilton 2, it would be very significant. It would really fill out and extend our skyline when viewing it from the west.

Ah, this would make sense. Thanks!

The new rental car center is now open.

Steel is beginning to rise for the new tower. Two of the elevator cores are up to ~10 stories and the center core is beginning to rise. I'm still confused about how these tower cranes are going to be able to build the entire tower given the planned tower height and the current crane height. None of the cranes currently have the "jump component" attached, so I'm not sure how they will grow along with the tower.

Awesome! I think this looks better than the initial proposal. I wonder what the final height will be. According to CU, construction won't start until summer of 2022 assuming approvals are granted. JUST BUILD THE THING ALREADY!!

How do you know the area could have supported that? And even if the area would have supported that, would NRI have been in a position to take on the increased debt needed for bumping everything up to the 7-10 story range? Would the company's risk portfolio have supported nearly doubling the number of residential units to be filled? How would the drastic increase in residential units have affected the rental rates they could charge, and would the rental income have been enough to offset the increase in construction and administrative costs? I want more height just as much as everyone here, but the common "just build taller buildings, they'll get filled up" argument is overly simplistic. Sure, all of NRI's residential units may be full in the AD, but that could be because they've appropriately met the market's demand. They may have been able to fill up more units if they had built more, but that may have oversaturated the market and pulled down rental rates, thereby decreasing their margin. We have no idea what type of analysis they've done, or the results of that analysis, but I guarantee it's much more in depth than all of us sitting around here and saying "well if you filled all of those up you should build more but this time make it taller because that's more exciting".

Relocating that substation would be huge. I really hope it happens. Moving it would allow for this section of the AD to finally be built out the way it should be.

You beat me in posting this by a minute! I will also add that the 10-story Parks Edge North building is wrapping up construction and is already halfway leased/sold. Not bad, considering how the downtown area amenities have been impacted by the past year and a half. It definitely seems like residential demand is still strong in the AD, so hopefully we will continue to see more (and taller) development.

The Crew's twitter account posted this aerial view of the LDC. It gives a nice view of the construction progress on this project so far.

The artist of the mural popped up on my Twitter timeline.

Bruh...

This new downtown mural seems relevant to the recent discussion here.

Pretty cool shot from 6drone4 on Instagram.

A new tower crane has joined the club in Columbus.

It's all a matter of perspective. When working with statistics, you have to understand the nature of the statistics in order to understand what they are telling you. But at the same time, you can't discount the fact that Delaware County has doubled in population since 2000 simply because it's total population is a million smaller than Franklin County. Go drive around Delaware County and you'll realize the population growth is not mere statistical manipulation. With that said, your point is exactly why I calculated the percentage of the entire metro population the "suburban counties" makeup and compared that to the percentage of the overall MSA's growth. That shows that they are pulling their own weight when it comes to the overall MSA population growth. Sure, Commercial Point doubling in population doesn't mean much, but if you know Commercial Point makes up .05% of the County's population and accounted for .05% of the County's population growth, you'll have a better understanding of how it really effected the overall population growth relative to its size. The bad thing about analyzing population figures is that there's no clean and consistent way to measure one area against another. It's the reason we have so many annoying arguments pop up on this forum when we talk about population figures. The best thing to do is to slice and dice things numerous different ways and try to obtain are clearer overall picture with the understanding that there is no perfect comparison or measurement.

I'm not crazy about the colors, but I love the design! It's something new and unique. Hopefully it gets approved.

Nobody up here cares. Congrats on getting the women's friendly.

Some of the suburban counties are experiencing larger growth than Franklin County already. Delaware and Union counties were the two fastest growing counties in Ohio over the last decade. Delaware County grew from 174,214 in 2010 to 214,124 in 2020, which is a 22.9% increase. Union County grew from 52,300 to 62,784, which is a 20% increase. For reference, Franklin County grew from 1,163,414 to 1,323,807, which is a 13.8% increase. Fairfield and Licking counties also experienced solid growth, with 8.7% and 7.2% increases respectively. The population of Madison, Union, Delaware, Licking, Fairfield, and Pickaway counties (Franklin County's bordering counties) account for 34% of the metro area population and 34% of the metro area's population growth. Franklin County accounts for 62% of the metro area's population and 68% of the metro area's growth. The remaining metro area counties are outlying counties that either remained steady or experienced population declines. So, as you can see, Franklin has a slightly larger impact relative to population, but its neighboring counties are holding up their end of the bargain as well.

I spy a new crane going up.

Sounds like we better start the search for a construction cam for this project.

Did your town also have a YMCA or rec center of some sort? It seems communities (at least around Columbus) have mostly determined it to be more cost-effective for the public to build a community rec center rather than put a pool in a school building.

It's definitely a rarity around Columbus. Off the top of my head, the schools who have their own pool on campus are Upper Arlington, St. Charles, Columbus Academy, New Albany, and Thomas Worthington. All other high schools use their local YMCA or Rec Center pool as far as I know. Some schools don't have any pool at all and their swimmers are forced to practice on their own with their club teams. I know there were talks in Pickerington about building a pool about a decade ago, but it never materialized.

It’s about time you finally create an account and make a post! Lol

I think this is true. While both are very much part of the Columbus metro area due to their proximity to Columbus and increasingly development between each city and the other suburbs, they each feel much more independent and self-sustaining than the suburbs hugging 270.