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I can confirm there is nary a shovel in the ground. I take issue with TMUD funds going to a Phase 2 of a project that hasn't [physically] commenced Phase 1...

Curious how they're... disconnecting Dublin-Granville Road and Kitzmiller? Ganton Rd will meet at the intersection with Kitzmiller but those now won't connect to the south or west... Unless that's what that little jog is for now? A strange concept. Seems like they could've just done an interesting round-a-bout with five roads instead.

Has... anything happened on "Phase 1"? Interesting that it says so yet I can't see I've seen any movement out there since I was there a month or two ago.

Are they not planning an underpass either? I assumed that's what they would do, like the one they added under RIverside at John Shields.

Facade work continues at The Rambler

Work continues on the Biomed & Materials Engineering building (Watts Hall replacement/MacQuigg Lab renovation) at Ohio State. Autumn 2025 opening still listed.

Yea I don't understand the "base" of the building -- having a different style for the podium doesn't work well with maintaining the historic storefronts below -- they should pick one or the other. There is definitely WAY too much going on with the facade treatments. Honestly that dark green fenestration above the old "Garden" facade is maybe the most interesting bit -- they should just continue that for the entirety of the facade of the new build, imho.

I'm also wondering exactly how this works with the view out of the stadium, too? Looks like they should maybe be cutting the corner of that parcel to maintain the view to downtown otherwise...

I'm hoping that Short North Kroger eventually takes the urban Chicago model and re-builds a bigger store with intergrated parking above

peek a boo

Downtown commission should make it a hard and fast rule to NOT allow any new surface parking in downtown EVER again...

Welcoming the largest ever freshman class and... OSU is out of residence hall space again: https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/ohio-state-university-freshman-class-size-off-campus-housing/530-80082098-af3e-4db5-8270-50309c0951e8 They're paying to house some students in "The Point on Lane" and operating it like a Residence Hall: https://housing.osu.edu/resources/second-year-success/the-point-on-lane/ Time for the next phase of new residence halls on South Campus per Framework 3.0 (which, ironically, a major goal is to de-densify residence halls, even though they're already back to cramming more kids in rooms than ever...)

So I will say the buildings they did keep are those with the most in-tact historic architecture: It would be nice if they kept/re-constructed the facade of 183-189 Rich St (the old Spoonful Records location) as that one also has some merit: Definitely silly to demo that corner building (although it is ugly) without a really compelling pocket park/entry to the new tower PLUS an activation of that new blank wall of the existing heritage building -- punch some windows or throw on a mural in photoshop, come on people!

Excellent progress towards a double-sided urban street wall on Lane between High and the river

This is great, a new park in there would be a great catalyst. But hopefully Spring St would be turned into 2-way first -- that would really help to bring nicer pedestrian traffic between the new residential in the area. A whole string of parks to CSCC would make the area feel a lot like the Pearl District in Portland

I am SHOCKED these variances were just... approved? No wild pushback? Maybe the promise of keeping those affordable units is the key?

Not sure if anyone posted this on here yet, but at the end of that video they mentioned they're adding a parking deck over part of the Giant Eagle surface lot (a la Grandview Yard):

FYI - I overlaid the existing Kohls and Motel 6 on that rendering for reference.

They mention demolishing the 1930s addition... I hope they won't. I appreciate that this is a historic preservation project, but I'd say the '30s portion should be saved as well. It matches the building well and has some substantial mass to it. They could definitely utilize it creatively instead.

I'm curious if there's proof that the Kohls will be demolished? There's a chance they're just siphoning off part of the parking lot (maybe closest to the river) to start redeveloping it. There are also many two-story Kohls stores that they could build in its place if they wanted to keep it as part of the re-development (like this one outside of DC with structured parking: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ykMjF9Ww6umnHCMz9; or this one in Chicago: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ubTJf4b2U5LJreLH7). Maybe not necessary yet but along the lines of the re-developed Kroger just south (is that space still empty?)

This is super exciting to see. It's a great building -- I was involved in the Thistledown Childrens Theatre that operated there until the early 2010s.

Wild that it's their first Ohio location! And yes disappointing that a food-only spot is taking over what was previously a more multi-use venue, but maybe it'll be their first location with a bar? haha

Oooooh the curved storfront one is lovelyyyy

Buh bye Drake. And yes, looks like they're maintaining the pedestrian bridge access. I believe there is a longer-range plan to build another vehicular bridge over the Olentangy there in the future that may be buses and pedestrians only.

My god this thing FLEW up (especially in comparison to all of the projects that go at a snail's pace)