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I think another factor, in addition to the cheap land, is the large lot sizes. Look at some of the projects such as Highpointe, The Nicholas, The Xander, Normandy 1 and 2, the building across from the Normandy buildings, etc. All of these developments have oddly large lot sizes. You could line up four skyscrapers next to each other in footprint of Highpointe. You could fit two or three inside the footprint of The Nicholas. Two could easily fit inside The Xander. The Normandy buildings could fit two or three, and the building across the street could probably fit two. Because these developments have gone on these large lots, it hasn't made sense for the developers to go up very high. Why should they when they can still fit upwards of 230 apartment units into a 6 story, mostly wood frame building? So even though a building like Highpointe is only 6 stories tall, it's functionally equal to a 20-30 story building with a normal sized urban footprint. Once these larger surface lots get filled up and developers are forced to turn the "normal" sized lots, I think we will naturally start to the buildings grow taller. We've already seen this with Market Tower and Hilton 2.0 as they are both on very small pieces of land. We've seen other 15-20 story ideas tossed around on different lots downtown that are more "normal sized".

They were 2 for 3 on spelling Columbus correctly:

^ Slightly closer view providing a bit more detail.

^ Roughly what these views look like today:

The Short North, 1999.

Here's the other half of Franklinton.

So much potential on the left side of this picture...

Here's a good view of the River South District from above.

Here's a good chunk of campus. In the distance you can see the mixed-use development at Olentangy River Rd and Ackerman starting to rise. You can also see the numerous ~7 story hotels that have been built along Olentangy River Rd and the new Ohio Health HQ.

View from above. I'd say it's 25% good and 75% hideous.

Thanks for posting these for me. I meant to get to these as well but got sidetracked by work.

I would love to see some sort of a high rise, or at least mid rise, development go there as well. It would provide the most beautiful and unique views of the city with the river in the foreground, the entirety of the downtown skyline, the Franklinton skyline that will begin to grow soon, and the ever expanding OSU and Short North skylines. I think it will become so value that it will have to be redeveloped in some way. Hopefully, whatever happens, we can maintain some type of restaurant/event space on the bottom floor. In other news, has there been any construction activity on Gravity 2.0?

She's a beauty! What's crane status on the other side of campus?

Aerial photo of the Short North from a couple weeks ago. This gives you a good sense of how much the area has transformed over the last few years.

Photo of construction progress from a couple weeks ago.

Here's another awesome aerial photo in which you can see some of the good infill projects we have going on right now.

I have been looking all over for a picture of this tower under construction and have never been able to find one. Thanks for posting! I love pictures of different parts of the city under construction (as you can see in my post further up the thread), so this is pretty cool.

So it looks like this one will be about the same height as the first one, and the final one will be the taller of the three. I wonder how soon we will see crane number 3 going up.

Yes, I believe it will run perpendicular to the current tower.

It seems we can always count on OSU for a handful of tower cranes each year. How tall will this one be? I don't recall seeing an application for it.

I wonder if the "not-so-satisfied customers" could be a result of the airport nearing maximum capacity. I fly a decent amount and prefer CMH over most airports I fly in and out of, so who knows how meaningful these rankings are. The August stats are out, and the strong ridership growth continues. August 2018 CMH: 699,986 2018 LCK: 28,184 2018 Total: 728,170 2019 CMH: 735,554 2019 LCK: 28,369 2019 Total: 763,923 4.9% increase, or a growth of 35,753 Year to Date 2018 CMH: 5,389,991 2018 LCK: 233,373 2018 Total: 5,623,364 2019 CMH: 5,724,945 2019 LCK: 231,337 2019 Total: 5,956,282 5.9% increase, or a growth of 332,918 Columbus continues gaining ground on Cincinnati, cutting Cincinnati lead nearly in half compared to this time last year. At this time last year, Cincinnati was 6.4% higher, but Columbus has cut that to only 3.4% larger through August of this year, resulting in a gap of 187,664. If things hold up for the remainder of the year, we should finish right around 9 million. Hopefully they have picked up the pace on the new terminal, because we are going to need it soon.

Aerial photo of the new stadium site taken today.

This progress picture just popped up on the Columbus reddit.

This view is going to be littered with cranes before too long. Within the next few months there should be a cluster of 5 cranes. Based on the crane applications, this crane will be 178 feet, there will be another crane to the Northeast of this crane that will be 243 feet, and another crane due North of this crane that will be 174 feet. On the near (West) side of High Street, there will be a 150 foot crane and a 180 foot crane.

Now this is the type of dangerous living that I'm talking about. Well done. Have a heart!