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Anyone know how many employees we're talking here? I see anything that gets our density up as great news.

OhioHealth set to move offices to Downtown Thursday, February 23, 2006 Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH OhioHealth is expected to announce today that it will move its corporate headquarters Downtown to the Borden Building, central Ohio real-estate sources say. The health-care company declined to comment yesterday, but a spokesman confirmed an announcement of some kind is to be made today. OhioHealth, which operates Doctors Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital in Delaware, Grant Medical Center and Riverside Methodist Hospital, is based at 1087 Dennison Ave. in Victorian Village. A year ago, OhioHealth said it was negotiating with a specialty hospital company in Pennsylvania to sell the headquarters site, which used to be part of Doctors North Hospital. OhioHealth closed Doctors North in 2002. Continental Real Estate, Nationwide Realty Investors and Capitol Square Ltd. acquired the Borden Building, 180 E. Broad St., in June 2004 for $28.95 million. The 34-story tower was 30 percent vacant at the time. More at www.dispatch.com

Great news!

^ I love how the Brewery District and German Village areas are a big empty hole in that map. They should have included some of the buildings in RiverSouth just for fun. That Self Storage place comes to mind!

^ Ruined my morning with that one.

That's what you get for buying a box in the burbs! ;)

How could this guy write this article and not mention RiverSouth or the Whittier Redevelopment at all? He obviously didn't do his homework. Also...the city's "grand boulevard" plan sucks. Anyone who knows the details of ODOT's latest options is very aware of this. I'm unimpressed by this "postdoctoral physics researcher's" knowledge of Columbus' urban development scene.

Here's what I've got within a 5-10 minute walk (off the top of my head)... Kroger, 10+ fast food restaurants, 10+ sit down restaurants, 10+ bars, a Blockbuster, a book store, 2 Starbucks, a shopping mall, a tanning salon, 8-10 salons, a handfull of dentists and doctors, 3 banks, 80+ lawyers (not a typo), a thrift store, 2 gas stations, and much more. Within a 10 minute drive, I'm closer than any suburban (who doesn't live in Easton Commons) to everything else on your list. I see the sticking point for many suburbanites as being 1) schools, and 2) a big yard. And there are solutions to both (private schools and public parks).

It should fit pretty well with the skyline. The closest building would be the AEP building (2 blocks closer to downtown) at about 30-33 stories.

My primitive math says that at $50 million, they'll need to average $500,000 per unit to break even. I wouldn't expect to touch one of these for less than $600-800k.

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=166860 Nationwide to build $50 million condo tower in Arena District By Mike Pramik The Columbus Dispatch Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:10 PM A 20-story, glass condominium tower will punctuate the Columbus skyline next year from an Arena District corner near North Bank Park. Nationwide Realty Investors announced plans today to spend more than $50 million on the new tower and an adjoining rehabilitation of the former Bundy Building at Spring Street and Neil Avenue. The developers are hopeful that work will begin this spring on the Condominiums at North Bank Park, pending city approval. The Dispatch Printing Company, publisher of The Dispatch, owns 10 percent of the project. [email protected]

According to the word on the street (columbusretrometro.com), the mayor may come out with a streetcar related announcement soon. With all of the noise going on lately, I'm keeping my fingers crossed with the hope that we can get something on the ballot this fall.

^ Yep! You should have seen all of 'em at the 70/71 split meeting last night. I thought Tom Slack of ODOT did a great job of "handling" them. He was very polite and respectful in the midst of their "in your face" style of questioning.

Yeah...I hate to get too excited with all of those cities on the list, but I think we've got a puncher's chance!

I was just driving around and saw a new banner on one of the old warehouses at the corner of Neil and Spring... http://www.northbankcondos.com/ 20 stories, 2 buildings (tower and loft), 109 upscale residences, developed by Nationwide Realty Investors. Check our the renderings!!!

Any idea how far south the routes are supposed to come? Will they end at the Statehouse? Being in the Brewery District, I'd like to see them extend down 3rd and dead end at Schiller Park (I wonder how the GV Society would appreciate that).

^ I like that world KJP. I get a bit nervous when talking about fully eliminating subsidies. The US economy is pretty fragile when it comes to energy costs and consumer spending. I'm ok with your phase out approach, but only if it happens over the course of 20+ years. The other ideas are great (esp. the freeway privatization).

What an unbelievable story! It just proves that nothing is ever good enough for some people. More power to Stevenson.

Wooo-hooo! :)

FYI...

I think this is a much deeper debate than this thread can handle. In a nutshell, I'll say that education starts in the home, and inner city families tend not to place a high emphasis on this (out of values or thier own education level). This puts inner city schools into a death spiral. Couple that with lower salaries (in most cases) for teachers to work in a less favorable environment, and you attract less talent to the workforce. KJP nailed this part.

Here's the very prompt response I got when I emailed the person responsible for the RFP...

http://www.ohiotoerietrail.org/

You can't tell me this building doesn't look like Voltron!

Has anybody heard anything about the public open house that supposed to happen this coming Wednesday (Feb. 15th)? I checked the website (http://www.columbus.gov/whittier.asp), and found nothin'!