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In terms of fast food, there aren’t many better options. The food is pretty good (in terms of fast food) and the customer service is light years ahead of pretty much every other fast food establishment.

Panorama of construction progress. Seats are starting to be installed on the south end.

I'm so excited for this project. It's great way to take a giant swath of dead space and turn it into a destination for the city.

Yea, that was Walker making an extremely dumb comparison between Portland's city limits population in 1986 and the city limits population of Columbus today. He failed to consider the fact that Portland's city limits encompass half the amount of area as Columbus, or the fact that Portland is built up much more densely because of its geographic constraints. He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. With that being said, I would strongly support a legit BRT system. It's functionally the same thing as light rail, but at a fraction of the cost. I know light rail is a lot sexier, but I think real BRT (not CMAX) is the way to go. When it comes to rail transportation, I think we should focus on getting Amtrak back to Columbus and adding a commuter rail line connecting places like Delaware, Newark, Lancaster, etc. to downtown.

I've actually worked in the old Columbia Gas building and the AEP building. The AEP building has some great views of downtown because of it's unique location.

I saw this picture on Instagram from what appears to be the AEP building. It gives a nice sense of the scale of the Scioto Peninsula buildings compared to their surroundings.

They seem to have enough space for another tower and the demand is definitely there so hopefully they do!

This development is going to change the feel of downtown so much. I can't wait! I drove through yesterday and had pretty much this same view and it got me super excited for the rest of the project. It's going to help make the riverfront feel like the center of downtown rather than the edge of downtown.

Looking good.

These buildings will really help improve Groveport's "downtown", so hopefully they can start construction sometime this year. Groveport has a solid residential core, but it is desperately lacking commercial space. These developments will help immensely. One of the buildings will be going here, at the corner of Front and Main, next to the Ace Hardware and across the street of the elementary school. The other is going here at the corner of College and Main where the old car lot used to be. This one is smack in the middle of Groveport, so it will be easily walkable for a majority of people who live in the village.

That drone shot is actually like two weeks old. The cranes were dismantled a few weeks ago. I believe the roof is fully covered now. They've actually started installing the "safe standing" components in the supporter's section. Hopefully we see the rest of the seating installed soon.

Sun Country doesn't operate their Mexico routes daily. That might be different during the summer, but right now their flights to Mexico are mostly 2x weekly, compared to Southwest who is flying their Mexico routes daily with numerous flights each day. Some of the Sun Country flights to Mexico don't even coincide with the two days they are going to fly their CVG route. It just seems like it will be tough to win over people from Delta and Southwest. In terms of going out west, Sun Country doesn't really offer much via a connection through MSP that isn't already a direct flight from CVG on a competing low-cost airline. Again, competition is never a bad thing, and maybe this is just the first of future additions by Sun Country at CVG, but it just seems very odd from Sun Country's end.

But where in Florida is Sun Country going to get you to, via a connection through MSP, that Allegiant/Southwest/Frontier can't get you to direct? I would never complain about having more options, but this just seems like an odd move for Sun Country.

Most of the people living in Grandview Yard don’t have kids. The entire development might add about 12 kids to the entire district, and that’s not an exaggeration.

Here’s a construction update from OSU. https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/news/2021/01/22/progress-continues-new-inpatient-hospital Here’s what the article has to say about the tower cranes: “The first tower crane has been assembled to its initial height and it will continue to grow as the hospital progresses. A second tower crane is scheduled to be installed late February near 10th Avenue and Cannon Drive.”

A third construction camera has been added to the project's web page. https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/projects/inpatient-hospital

Great news! It was pretty crazy how they put up a tower crane and then took it down like two weeks later haha.

Haha yep! I'm used to the 747s and 777s rumbling over Groveport. These were a lot different, so I looked out my window just in time to see them fly over. They actually flew around a couple times before landing.

I watched these guys flying over Groveport this morning.

Looks like some administrative work is still being done for Gravity 2.0. https://columbusohdev.app.box.com/s/firjze10qnl4r4411ngwvabi1z3ymeac/file/766269713067

Work begins on Upper Arlington's tallest development https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2021/01/20/work-begins-arlington-gateway-upper-arlingtons-tallest-project/4216379001/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot Work began this week on Arlington Gateway, the $100 million Upper Arlington project that's been five years in the making. Crews started demolishing buildings on the site, on the southeast corner of West Lane Avenue and North Star Road, to make way for the 11-story structure. That height makes it Upper Arlington's tallest development, and it will serve as an eastern entrance to the city. ..... Kass said more than 60% of the 137,000 square feet of office space has been leased, even in the midst of a pandemic that has slowed office movement to a halt. "It's been gratifying," Kass said. "We found some really good tenants excited about the building and location, and about being in Upper Arlington." He said he expects to announce tenants in March. Half Price Books, which plans to return to the site, is the only retail tenant announced yet for the new development. Kass said after the buildings are demolished and the site cleared, work will begin on the parking structure. The project is expected to open in mid-2023.

Here's a little update from the project's Twitter account.

The IRF building is only 5 stories and has plenty of space, yet they are using a tower crane. When 250 High was built downtown a few years ago, they used a crawler crane even though they were building a 12 story building on a skinny lot. I would assume there's more to it than just the amount of space available. I'm guessing tower cranes provide much more efficiency during construction, allowing for a quicker build-out, while coming at a higher cost than crawler cranes.

That would be awesome, although they are well into construction on two buildings already without any tower cranes. We will see what happens with some of the other phase one buildings that have started yet.

The view of Crane City from the Crew Stadium construction cam.