17thState

Ahh yes, the federal government famously great with money has never spent billions of dollars on a failure... ( Zumwalt Class Destroyers: $24.5B, Littoral Combat Ship Program: $7B, Boeing Starliner: $4.2B, Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle: $3B, War on Drugs: probably in the trillions) Look I hope this works out for us as well, but the feds throwing money at something with their fingers crossed is no guarantee of success.

That this isn't the policy is shocking.

I think it's highly likely we get the fab they are currently constructing, but I don't think it's counter productive to question whether a company that's lost $100+ billion of market cap (half of their value) since this project was announced and one that is actively pausing other fabs will continue to build out the site beyond the initial fab. There's pessimism and there's evaluating the reality of the situation. Maybe we should slow play any additional tax payer investments that are banking on more than 1 fab until we see how this plays out. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/business/dealbook/intels-chips-qualcomm-apollo.html?smid=url-share

I'm not an FAA expert or anything, but what qualifies to be a reliever airport? Akron-Fulton airport is only 30 miles from Hopkins, that's only like 5 minutes away in an airliner traveling 500 mph. From Google maps that airport looks equivalent to Burke, if not bigger. I don't understand why closing Burke is so impossible. Seems like a perfect option for the stadium and a lot of other things.

It's American company without fabs buying a dying American company with fabs. Why wouldn't they allow it? Maybe they make Intel spin off the design portion of the company, but Intel has already been prepping for a split, they relatively recently opened their fabs to produce outside designs and started splitting out the financial results of their manufacturing in their filings. I agree this Ohio location moves ahead because of the federal money behind it, but they're pausing fabs in Poland and Germany and canceling a fab in Malaysia. It moves ahead to achieve the bare minimum of what they need to do to get those sweet federal dollars, but it will be a long time if ever before we see 10 fabs or whatever the "potential" investment they were swinging around 3 years ago was.

Alrighty, I'm back on board. Love that we're keeping the buildings along 4th and I'm a fan of beer garden type structure on the corner. Full send let's go build it.

Hopefully the changes are "distinctly Dublin" enough to get approved

I'm hoping that the garage becomes the retail parking for the existing stores along Yard St. And they develop the existing lot just to the north

I think Tim and I do live there and we are telling you how as people who live there it could be improved, but taking high street down to 3 lanes when there aren't other options for travel (like Neil, 4th, Summit, etc in the Short North) would be a nightmare. The last time I drove through the short north every light was some jerk in a hellcat, ninja, or s**t box using the center lane to cut traffic, it was awful. High Street should be slower, it should have pedestrian islands, but we live in the real world and not some urbanist dream where everyone rides their unicycle to work and has 4 local coffees and an ice cream on the way. We need to improve our infrastructure while still considering practical realities.

Disagree it should be 3 lanes. You only have high street and Indianola as north/ south travel options between the Olentangy and 71. However, totally agree there should be some traffic calming measures. I think the section between Oakland Park and Dunedin Rd is a great example. Adds an island for pedestrians, adds some trees, and combined with narrow lanes, the islands and parked cars you naturally slow down, but still get the throughput of 4 lanes. They should add these to the sections of high street with commercial on both sides. You wouldn't need them continuously for people to slow down.

Who are we kidding, clearly this is the answer

I hate these giant flyovers, such an eyesore.

I was going to say it has old National Road pre-interstate vibes

How it's been described to me is that it used to be that labor was cheap so materials could be expensive and now labor is expensive so materials have to be cheap. I'm not in the industry but that always made sense to me.

Yeah Henderson between Kenny and Reed is 50. So the jump from 50 mph to a wide 5 lane road that's supposed to be 35 usually doesn't go great (guilty myself). Excited to see what UA does here. I agree they have a pretty strong recent track record of densifying some key areas.

I've never seen a prefab parking garage before. The sticks holding up huge concrete slabs are much more typical with data center or warehouse construction. Really interesting to see it applied to a parking garage. Presumably it's cheaper and hopefully it works out well. I'd love to see more garages and less spread out parking lots.

I think they closed the park to avoid the homeless the potential new courthouse 5 years into the future was a convienant reason.

Is there still a protective film on some of those panels? Because they most definitely look blue and not the lavender/purple that's in the rendering.

They should paint it that go-away-green Disney uses to camouflage things they don't want you to notice. This building is so bad.

Somehow these warehouses survived interest rates in the teens during the 80's. If they can't pencil out a project without destroying what little original buildings this city has left maybe they shouldn't do it. Plenty of empty lots to build stick boxes covered in cardboard.

Even if they kept the strip center, but developed the parking lots into structured parking topped by apartments that would be a nice win.

This a pretty great quote from the article. “They call it Dublin for a reason,” he said. “Your time and your fees are doublin’.”

Surprised they didn't do anything on top of the garage. Seems like a no brainer for a shared patio space. They don't have to go all out on a pool or anything, just maybe some pavers, planter boxes, chairs, and a grill/firepit.

That whole article seems like if you asked chat gpt to design a sustainable development. It quickly goes off the rails. Starts with 15 cabins and tree houses and a check-in center, ends with "a radial city and theoretical utopia of sorts" . Something tells me $20-25M doesn't get you utopia.

I mean it's not that crazy. It's just shy of a quarter mile between them, which is walkable if you're grabbing a coffee and heading back to your car, much tougher if you're loaded down with groceries or if you if you walk there to shop, walk back with a cart, then walk the cart back, then walk back to your car now you're at a mile. I don't think you need to feel bad. Don't always trust the Europeans, they were shocked we were going to drive from Amsterdam to Rotterdam for a half day of meetings and back in a day, it's only like an hour between them.