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Garage demo has commenced. They've added a second camera view to the project's web page so you can watch the garage come down, if you are so inclined. https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/projects/inpatient-hospital

I remember at one point, it might have been during that timeframe, we had 9-10 cranes just on High Street.

Financially speaking, if I have the opportunity to work third shift making $20/hr with no student loan debt, or be teacher on a $35k/year salary with $30k in student loan debt, I'll take the warehouse job. That's my point.

Many people with a 4 year degree and $30k in student loan debt would love a job paying $20/hr.

Starting June 3rd, Allegiant will be offering a twice weekly flight from LCK to Norfolk. This route was planned to begin this past summer, but those plans were derailed due to Covid.

I really like the way this building is turning out.

They did an amazing job with that garage!

It's been a while since we had a good @NorthShore647 Columbus construction photo tour. Thanks again for the pics! By my count, we are up to 13 tower cranes. Not bad, considering this is the opposite of peak construction season in the middle of a pandemic.

This would be awesome! Hopefully it happens...

Holy crap! Those buildings are flying up!

With all this talk about MSAs, I wonder how the drastic increase in work from home and online shopping will affect which counties remain part of certain MSAs....

The West Campus Ambulatory Facility now has three tower cranes up after a third was added over the weekend.

Awesome! Last I checked, they were planning to have it open by 2023, so hopefully we see some construction/demo work starting soon.

What makes you think that? Are they moving dirt? Is there heavy machinery on site? I’m just trying to gauge how excited I should let myself get lol

There are some pretty good aerial shots of the stadium in this video.

If someone wants to go through the laundry list of criteria and statistically prove that such and such county belongs or doesn't belong in your beloved/rival MSA, knock yourself out lol.

Exactly. I've spent a decent amount of time down in Logan and I know some people from there. That area is very much part of Columbus and reliant upon Columbus. I just figured I would point out that even if they were removed, it really wouldn't change much of anything.

A lot of people in those areas who work downtown usually leave early in the morning (around 5am or so) to beat a lot of the morning rush hour traffic. It ends up being about a 45-50 minute drive from Logan, which isn't much different than leaving Polaris at 7am to drive downtown. Even if you were to remove a county like Hocking from the Columbus MSA, it would hardly chnage the overall MSA population. Hocking County, which has an approximate population of 28,264, only accounts for 1.3% of the total MSA population. Hocking County and Morrow County combined only account for 3% of the total MSA population. Franklin County alone is growing fast enough to replace the population of Hocking and Morrow Counties combined every five years or so. So arguing about whether the two counties should or shouldn't be included is fairly pointless.

It's more than just that. But yes, in essence an MSA is simply a core urban area and the outlying areas that surround it and are economically and socially linked to it. There are statistical methods used to determine if an outlying area is economically and socially linked closely enough to the core urban area to be considered part of the MSA. Unfortunately, us common folk don't really have access to the statistics and thresholds used, so we end up with people making up their own reasons for different MSAs to be inflated or deflated to fit their own narrative.

The distance between Galion and Hocking Hills is totally irrelevant. What's relevant is the fact that most people who live in Hocking Hills or Galion are driving into Columbus every day for work, shopping, recreation, etc. If this daily commute was not occurring at such a large level, these places would not be included in the Columbus MSA. This type of situation exists in every metro area in this part of the country. Also, the idea that Columbus is an outrageously expansive MSA is complete nonsense. There are many other MSAs around the country that encompass a much larger land area. Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Austin all come to mind.

For what it’s worth, I saw that Uhaul had Ohio listed as one of the top 10 states for net inflow this past year. I’m sure both lists are equally useless.

There are 1-2 being built behind Kroger/Home Depot (along with a hotel), and then another 1-2 on the other side of 33 along Winchester Pike. You can see all of it from 33.

I’m referring to the new warehouses being built around 33 and gender road.

Nope, they are definitely Canal Winchester. The Canal Winchester city website even talks about them.