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The counties will definitely be different. As the core city grows and holds more power within the region, more counties will be added to its MSA because more people are commuting there for work, shopping, etc. The Columbus MSA would probably have added more counties since 1950 than Pittsburgh, for example, but those counties that Columbus added probably had very tiny populations in 1950.

Groveport actually has more of those Rickenbacker warehouses than Obetz I believe, but they are both very similar. That area has seen constant warehouse construction for the past 10-15 years and is still going strong. The warehouse building boom has even started migrating down to Canal Winchester where 3 large warehouses are currently under construction.

This got me curious about MSA population change from 1950 to 2019 for various different metro areas around the Midwest/Great Lakes region. The list below gives a good sense of how cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh were major metro areas in 1950, but have really struggled keep up (especially Pittsburgh) while also showing how Columbus, Indy, Minneapolis, and KC are Sun Belt cities of the Midwest. I pulled the population figures and 2019 ranking from Wikipedia, and I found the 1950 ranking from a PDF from the US Census. Note how Columbus somehow managed to maintain the exact same ranking nearly 70 years apart lol. Columbus MSA 1950: 503,410 (32nd) Columbus MSA 2019: 2,122,271 (32nd) Change: +1,618,861; +321.6% Indianapolis MSA 1950: 551,777 (28th) Indianapolis MSA 2019: 2,074,537 (33rd) Change: +1,522,760; +276.0% Minneapolis MSA 1950: 1,346,285 (13th) Minneapolis MSA 2019: 3,654,908 (16th) Change: +2,308,623; +171.5% Kansas City MSA 1950: 814,357 (17th) Kansas City MSA 2019: 2,157,990 (31st) Change: +1,343,633; +165.0% Cincinnati MSA 1950: 1,244,738 (15th) Cincinnati MSA 2019: 2,221,208 (30th) Change: +976,470; +78.4% Chicago MSA 1950: 5,495,364 (2nd) Chicago MSA 2019: 9,458,539 (3rd) Change: +3,963,175; +72.1% St Louis MSA 1950: 1,681,281 (9th) St Louis MSA 2019: 2,803,228 (20th) Change: +1,121,947; +66.7% Toledo MSA 1950: 395,551 (43rd) Toledo MSA 2019: 641,816 (93rd) Change: +246,265; +62.3% Milwaukee MSA 1950: 1,014,211 (16th) Milwaukee MSA 2019: 1,575,179 (39th) Change: +560,968; +55.3% Akron MSA 1950: 474,016 (40th) Akron MSA 2019: 703,479 (82nd) Change: +229,463; +48.4% Dayton MSA 1950: 545,723 (37th) Dayton MSA 2019: 807,611 (73rd) Change: +261,888; +48.0% Detroit MSA 1950: 3,219,256 (5th) Detroit MSA 2019: 4,319,629 (14th) Change: +1,100,373; +34.2% Cleveland MSA 1950: 1,680,736 (11th) Cleveland MSA 2019: 2,048,449 (34th) Change: +367,713; +21.9% Pittsburgh MSA 1950: 2,213,236 (8th) Pittsburgh MSA 2019: 2,317,600 (27th) Change: +104,364; +4.7% Buffalo MSA 1950: 1,089,230 (14th) Buffalo MSA 2019: 1,127,983 (49th) Change: +38,753; +3.6%

I drove down 670 the other day and I actually a bit of what I assumed to be the elevator core peaking over the top of the convention center. Hopefully the weather stays mild and dry so they can keep plugging away.

Hilton 2.0's neighbor under construction.

I drove through the downtown area yesterday for the first time in a while and I noticed there are now 2 tower cranes up at the CoverMyMeds construction site. Kind of surprising for a relatively short building.

Yea, I think we were all just hoping it would be under construction by now.

I completely agree. However, when those were built there was almost nothing happening downtown and absolutely nothing happening south of Broad Street. I would never support anything like those being built downtown now, but for the time they were pretty important.

Well that would be quite the improvement!

This view of the office building provides a bit of a peak at one of the residential buildings. Also, here are a couple renderings that give you a pretty good sense of the scale of the overall development:

I believe the residential buildings were originally envisioned to be 4-5 stories. I know it's not much, but it's nice to see that they are increasing their height a bit.

I know we always talk about our desire for more interesting and unique architecture around Columbus. This stadium definitely looks like it will provide some of that.

That open lot to the north would be a great spot for one or two 20-story towers :)

They are topping off the crane right now. It's odd, given the planned height of this tower, that this crane doesn't seem to have the component that will allow it to grow. Is that something that can be added later? I wouldn't think so...

Going up....

After this project (hopefully) happens, all we need is a 10-20 story tower on this surface lot to officially cap of Gay Street.

Looks like the crane will probably be built tomorrow.

A ton of progress has been made at the Crew's new training center. They have laid grass for the training fields and appear to be putting up field lights.

I believe there were three applications filed for cranes.

Looks like we might see a tower crane in the not-to-distant future. https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/projects/inpatient-hospital

I wonder how many of those apartments are occupied by permanent residents, how many are used as AirBnBs, how many are part time residences for musicians, and how many are speculative units banking on future growth. I would venture to say the percentage of apartments occupied by permanent residents in Nashville's downtown is a much smaller percentage than most cities.

Final site compliance plan has been submitted for the 11-story Heritage Pointe tower.

View of the final Parks Edge building going up from Huntington Park.