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LAFC plays at Banc of California Stadium, LA Galaxy plays at Dignity Health Sports Park which seats 27,000. ?

It's going to be an impressive stadium for sure. I got to go on a tour inside the stadium this past weekend - From the press level: The view on the concourse right when you come in from the SE corner: Main concourse, east side/SE corner by the plaza: Main concourse, under the south stands:

Construction plans for the intersection show full replacement of the signal using the decorative mast arm standard, so it'll actually match the new signals installed in the Short North rather than the one at Goodale and ORR.

Encova has received a permit to demolish the wood portions of the Residences at Topiary Park but keep the parts that are structurally sound (the lower concrete parking deck, first-floor slab, stair towers, some structural steel framing). Encova didn't provide a comment but a city official said that Encova is planning to rebuild the same structure and will submit building plans to the city once they know the extent of what needs to be rebuilt. https://www.dispatch.com/business/20200902/burned-downtown-apartments-expected-to-rise-again

Looks like video of the meeting is here: https://www.facebook.com/SchumacherPlace/posts/10157434735112409

Yeah, they're just replacing the system - this was sent out to the Short North streetscape construction email list in July:

Here's the full resolution rendering, pulled from the Dispatch's article:

Demolition has begun on the Topiary Park apartments. Spokeswoman for Encova "said demolition will take several weeks. She said she didn’t have any answers about the site’s future, but noted there is a meeting of the company’s board of directors during the coming week where the matter will be discussed." https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200814/demolition-begins-at-downtown-apartment-complex-heavily-damaged-in-may-arson-fire

The lot on Normandy St south of The Neilston is getting this: They're also building a new single family home on N 5th St: These are from the Downtown Commission's May meeting.

4-5 stories with the 5th story set back. Here's a description of the overall development from the plans in the PDF: "THE DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING ONE-STORY COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE (ROUGHLY 30,000 SF) AND ASSOCIATED PARKING LOT. THIS WILL BE REPLACED WITH A MIXED-USE APARTMENT AND RETAIL BUILDING, INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED TWO (2) LEVEL PARKING GARAGE - ONE (1) LEVEL AT GRADE, ONE (1) LEVEL SUBGRADE - WITH APPROXIMATELY 236 PARKING SPACES. THE GROUND FLOOR WILL INCLUDE A COMBINATION OF RETAIL SPACE, AMENITY SPACE, LEASING-RELATED FACILITIES, AND RESIDENTIAL UNITS. THE RESIDENTIAL UNITS ARE A COMBINATION OF STUDIOS, ONE BEDROOMS, TWO BEDROOMS, AND WALK-UP UNITS, TOTALING APPROXIMATELY 330 UNITS. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL BE A COMBINATION OF FOUR (4) AND FIVE (5) STORIES ABOVE GRADE (APPROXIMATELY 50% EACH), WITH THE TOP LEVEL SET BACK FROM THE STREET FAÇADE AND OCCUPYING ROUGHLY HALF THE FOOTPRINT OF THE LEVEL BELOW. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL INCLUDE INTERIOR PRIVATE GREEN SPACES AT GRADE (APPROXIMATELY 8,100 SF) AND ON TOP OF THE PARKING GARAGE (APPROXIMATELY 8,600 SF). INCLUDED IN THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE A NEW UNDERGROUND STORMWATER DETENTION SYSTEM, NEW SANITARY SERVICE, AND NEW STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG WHITTIER, JAEGER, KOSSUTH AND GRANT AVE."

I don't have a photo of this but they've begun adding brick to the columns on the south side and southwest corner of the garage.

It appears that land is owned by LLCs related to the company that owns The Grand (Vrable Healthcare), except from the auditor's map it looks like the city does already have right of way for the extension of Mooney St between John Shields and Tuller in the future.

The city is installing traffic signals at Hocking and at Hanover. Based on the plans I've seen: - At Hocking, they are basically just signalizing the current configuration, except widening into the median to provide two left turn lanes from Long to Hocking. There will not be a new crosswalk across Spring and Long. - At Hanover, there will be full crosswalks. Drivers from Hanover will be able to turn left onto Long St but drivers from Long St will not be able to turn left onto Hanover (basically the opposite of the current make-shift setup).

Yeah, they've said that's where the tower will be going -- the new garage is being built to replace the Cannon garages, which are being demolished to make way for the new tower. From this article:

There's an underground garage but I think the concrete for that only came up to ground level. There was also a concrete block exterior wall on the first floor. I think everything else is wood. From one of CU's updates:

The city has right-of-way all the way up to the building face here, so the building basement would be considered a right-of-way encroachment. I thought the city typically had these areas sealed off and filled in when they encounter them, though the note in the plans just called for the existing sidewalk above the top surface of the basement to be removed and then the top of the basement waterproofed before the new sidewalk is built. In this case though it looks like the "sidewalk" might actually be the top of the basement itself...

Yeah, this is it. I have a copy of the streetscape plans. There is an existing basement beneath the sidewalk. It was supposed to be removed/filled in as part of the project and replaced with new concrete but obviously it was not. It looks like the city also made adjustments to the pedestrian signal pole location and did not replace the curb ramp as originally called for in the plans. Considering they also shifted the new curb ramp on the north side of Bollinger to line up with the existing on the south side, I suspect that old concrete is here to stay...

They are planning on a rooftop bar - their signing package, which was heard at the downtown commission meeting last month, included a couple of signs for it:

Every time I pass by that building it infuriates me. It looks like the building itself will turn out fine but it will always look terrible with that blank wall above it.

I passed by here on a run this morning; from what I could tell, most if not all of the area in front of the small building will be parking and driveway access to what appears to be a garage on the left. Curb had already been built and gravel had been laid for paving. street view from July for context:

Mayor Ginther announced yesterday the City of Columbus is officially taking steps to become a Vision Zero community. Columbus Underground and The Dispatch both have articles on the announcement and the city has launched a website with a survey, a public input map, and more information: columbus.gov/visionzero I'm hopeful this means we may see some meaningful progress on improving the walkability and bikeability of more streets in Columbus. It remains to be seen how many resources the city actually puts behind the "Action Plan" that they will be creating as part of this process.

So at one point the developer mentioned they had tried to buy the Budget lot but had been unsuccessful. I just looked up the property records and the Budget property changed hands to "THIRD & LONG SRR II LLC" in September 2018. The property being developed now is owned by "THIRD & LAFAYETTE SRR II LLC." Both have the same owner address, which is Schottenstein Property Group's office. So it seems Schottenstein was eventually able to buy that corner property but must be planning a second phase to finish up the block.

They're (probably) going to be 4 to 5 stories, you can see the heights labeled in this image.

I think Edge is probably only providing land use planning services, which would make sense considering this project is still in the very early planning stages. Based on Edge's website they don't seem to do building architecture.

Doesn't the variance permitting an "eating and drinking establishment" mean the "cabaret" use is already permitted? Cabaret is included in the definition of an "eating and drinking establishment" in city code.