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Love that we got New Found Glory as our soundtrack, guess I my weekend playlist will be early 2000's pop punk. Also, that interchange is an abomination, the shear amount of land it consumes is insane.

It does look more like The James was a modern extension added to an existing taller building rather than the other way around. Lots of odd design choices. Hey maybe with the concrete issues this building had those pallet straps are structural.

Well thankfully they designed this atrocity so I no longer think the Highpoint is an ugly building.

The Columbus Symphony must not be donating enough to Ginther.

I can't tell, is that apartment building over a garage? It'd be nice if it was, could mean the other surrounding lots could be redeveloped

How is no one talking about this odd pass through from the s**tter to your "kitchen"? Great for dinner parties?

Wow that poor building, that's awful. I had no idea

Is it really? I'd rather look at a cell tower. I always thought it was elevator related.

I lol'd at the concept of parking "restoration". I hope they pull historical photos and talk to experts so it be restored to its original glory. Still don't get Otherworld, which definitely makes me a minority in here, whatever there's lots of things I don't get, but does seem like an odd thing to have inside a park.

I think they should address both, it was a bakery longer than it was an auto factory. And that's more relevant to living memory of anyone in the city. The Ford Motor Company built this substantial brick factory with ornamental white terra cotta trim across Cleveland Avenue from Fort Hayes in 1914. Designed by Ford Architect John Graham, Model T parts arrived by train and were assembled here and distributed to area dealerships until c1925. Assembly at this site ended in 1932 and the plant closed in 1939. The building was later adapted as an expansion of the neighboring commercial bakery for the Kroger Company where 14 production lines filled downtown Columbus with a sweet aroma for 80+ years. The Kroger Bakery closed in February 2019

Agreed. It looks nice and that's it. Who has an annual membership to it, does such a thing even exist? I've never talked to anyone who's gone to it, nor have I ever seen anyone going into it. I say this as someone who is regularly down there at COSI or the park in front of it with the kiddo.

I hate to be the Debbie Downer here, but I had hoped for much more than a 3 story building there. I can't find anything about that organization in a cursury googling. Great architecture would help, but other than that one time I walked up the spiral of the vets memorial to see the view that building really hasn't contributed much to the density or vibrance of the peninsula. I had hoped for a much larger condo or other building that would contribute to the skyline of downtown, add residents, and hopefully have some family friendly retail on the bottom, like an ice cream shop or an accessible lunch place as a contrast to milestone and as a benefit to families visiting COSI. I guess I'll reserve some judgment until more info comes out.

Haha I was going to say, I'll miss the convenient Amazon returns here. But I hope for adense well planned development here, it's a pretty unique big site. I worry we'll get a generic 4 story and keep the acres of parking already there

"Crawford Hoying also is in active negotiations with "some pretty significant leases" for more office users at Bridge Park, he said." Something tells they got a tenant pretty much locked up, I really don't think they'd build a spec 7 story office building with the headwinds that market has and just cross their fingers they can fill it.

The only thing that really bothers me is the parking lot on the corner. The rest of building looks like every other apartment building built in the last 10 years, if not above the average design. I still hold out hope that corner lot will be replaced with a 2-3 story condo building or something in a few years.

I mean, as we've seen you can just build whatever you want regardless of what you present the commission, so why not just present them "white 7 story building with robot pedestrians" and just run with it

I don't want anyone to get their hopes up, but that building already exists. They're just redoing the outside canopy/patio

I'm confused, the address listed on that link is 6584 Riverside Drive and it references the existing ZCucina at Bridge Park location which looks exactly like the rendering. Are you just inferring that something is happening at the Marathon because they accidentally included that parcel in the ZCucina canopy request?

I'm just always confused why so much time and energy (and hand wringing) goes into these design approvals if the developers can just change whatever they want after the fact? Do they have to have these subsequent changes approved and we just don't hear about it or are they going rogue with no repurcussions. If it's the later why not just propose whatever you think the commission wants and then turn around and build whatever you want.

Wow it looks soo much worse. The stair wells are terrible and protrude, the balconies are gone, the first floor is completely different.

Is there any garage screening for this? It's a lot of exposed concrete.

Sad to lose the existing taste of Ohio building, but really glad to get some more greenery. Shade feels like it's hard to come by at fair.

Interesting way to phrase that 😁 I feel like there's only 2 things you should be doing in there

Yeah it was even more noticeable in the early renderings, boggles the mind...

I know it's late fall so the water levels are low, but it's always surprising to me how much of the river they just backfill when they need to build bridge pylons.