jonoh81

It's not that all companies will shift to WFH entirely, only that there was a shift, meaning overall demand for office space isn't all that high right now and may never get back to where it was previously. I get the thinking that it might be used as buffer space, but there are plenty of residential buildings next to things like railroad tracks and factories that still manage to fill up despite the potential noise. As long as the developer/sales team is up front about that possibility, I think it'd make more sense to just stick with more residential.

They should've just gone to the city like Pizzuti did. They tried so hard to please the angry mob and couldn't find an inch of compromise with those people. At some point, it's not worth the time, effort or money to keep acting in good faith.

Every whale needs a pod, so I fully support the building being replaced with something big.

It's weird for them to be adding office space when the future of in-person work seems a lot less certain.

This doesn't appear to be the same people that proposed the demolition of basically the entire block for a 6-story. https://www.columbusunderground.com/mixed-use-proposal-in-old-north-would-require-the-demolition-of-five-buildings-bw1/ The suggestion with this one is that it only includes the rowhouse building at 2180 High, but not the ones to the north. Without a site plan, though, it's difficult to say.

I encourage everyone to follow that link and use the contact form to write them directly about how ridiculous they are. It's not going to change their minds, but they need to hear it, anyway.

I wonder if the new state law played any role in MT’s potential comeback behind the scenes or if it’s actually fully, completely dead at this point. Definitely leaning towards the latter.

There is really no reason to believe that AD units somehow wouldn't fill or that developers would lose money if they went larger. The central core added more than 22,000 people in 10 years, and it likely could've added many more than that had most of the development projects in that period actually gone with a better number of units. Instead, we saw too many underutilize their properties, particularly Downtown. The AD is nice, but most of it arguably hasn't met the potential of its location. As you say, it's not about height, it's about density. The greater the density, the more retail that can be supported, the more restaurants, the more amenities, etc. Not to mention increased viability of transit alternatives. Once these sites are developed, they're out of play for at least a generation.

Beat me to it. Doesn't make any sense.

Aside from the delay issue, I don't understand why they're going for a bare minimum approach for this project in terms of unit density when they admit all their other units are full. Wouldn't that indicate that demand could actually accommodate a larger project there? I hear developers complaining all the time about NIMBYism and zoning codes holding them back from building larger and denser, but this is a perfect example where everything is basically in their favor and they still don't. Is this more that NRI just wants everything to look the same and at the same height in the AD?

For the 3 Cs Cincinnati NHW: 46.9% NHB: 40.3% NHA: 2.5% Hispanic: 5.1% NHO: 5.2% Cleveland NHW: 31.8% NHB: 47.1% NHA: 2.8% Hispanic: 13.0% NHO: 5.3% Columbus NHW: 52.0% NHB: 29.3% NHA: 6.2% Hispanic: 7.7% NHO: 5.8%

Even though they're not released on the census site, here are the new 2020 ethnicity figures by race for Ohio's major cities. Akron Non-Hispanic White: 102,825 Non-Hispanic Black: 59,286 Non-Hispanic Asian: 10,042 Non-Hispanic Other: 12,120 Hispanic: 6,196 Cincinnati NHW: 145,100 NHB: 124,654 NHA: 7,767 Hispanic: 15,836 NHO: 15,960 Cleveland NHW: 119,547 NHB: 176,813 NHA: 10,390 Hispanic: 48,699 NHO: 17,175 Columbus NHW: 470,705 NHB: 256,509 NHA: 55,932 Hispanic: 70,179 NHO: 52,423 Dayton NHW: 64,020 NHB: 55,620 NHA: 1,922 Hispanic: 7,859 NHO: 8,223 Toledo NHW: 150,202 NHB: 76,401 NHA: 3,133 Hispanic: 24,136 NHO: 16,999 Youngstown NHW: 24,308 NHB: 25,326 NHA: 257 Hispanic: 6,895 NHO: 3,282

When the parking garage is now going to be the most significant addition...

Some yes, but it suggested a lot of the community were part of the original immigrants that just ended up moving to Columbus. If we just looked at ancestry, unfortunately the Census does not list Bhutanese or Nepalese as an option. If we just went by the generic "Asian", Bhutanese alone would account for about 1/3rd of all Asians living in the metro, which seems pretty high.

Now that I think about it, I wonder how they are arriving at the 27,000 figure. The Census doesn't specifically list Bhutan in its list of nations of origin for the foreign-born population, only Nepal. But the estimated foreign-born population total is otherwise fully accounted for in their figures. Under the South-central Asia section, they list Nepal with just under 4,000 immigrants in the metro, and under "Other", there are 7,501. Even if most of those were from Bhutan, that would still be well under 1/3rd of the stated estimate on that site. The latest census estimates were for 2019 for the metro area, so perhaps after the 2020 census data is input, we'll have a better idea of just how many foreign-born people now live in the region. If they all arrived after 2010, I guess that could explain some of the discrepancy, but it's a pretty large one.

Annexation didn't really get going significantly until around 1953.

About 5684.5, up from 4712.7 in 2010. It's roughly where it was in the mid-1990s. Ironically, if Columbus were the same size as Cleveland, it would already have the the state's highest density. Downtown is at 4331.5, up from 2,598.6 in 2010.

Here's a deeper dive into Downtown and 1950 core numbers. https://allcolumbusdata.com/columbus-ohio-downtown-population-growth/

Incidentally, that is the city's most diverse area by far. Tracts around Tamarack Circle have exploded not only in population, but in immigrants from just about every part of the world.

Well, as usual, I must give the caveat that the 1950 boundary that I normally use for this is not exactly the same one that exists in 2020 given many changes to individual census tract boundaries in the past 70 years. That said, the closest population for that area is 256,939, which is 22,357 more than in 2010. Out of the 53 tracts that made up the 1950 boundary, 36 of them grew 2010-2020. Downtown itself- made up of roughly tracts 30, 32, 4001, 4002 and 42- is at 14,294, up 4,731 from 2010.

Top 10 Census Tracts with the Highest Non-Hispanic White Population by % of Total Population 1. 65: 91.5% 2. 6950, 9802: 91.4% 3. 120: 90.9% 4. 9753: 90.8% 5. 110: 90.7% 6. 6910: 90.6% 7. 9801: 90.0% 8. 66: 89.9% 9. 6810: 89.7% 10. 220: 89.6% Bottom 10 Census Tracts with the Lowest Non-Hispanic White Population by % of Total Population 1. 7511: 6.3% 2. 15, 7552: 6.5% 3. 7532: 7.3% 4. 730: 8.2% 5. 7512: 8.9% 6. 7533, 7534: 10.2% 7. 9337: 10.3% 8. 6933: 10.9% 9. 9326: 11.3% 10. 29: 11.5% Top 10 Fastest-Growing Tracts for Non-Hispanic White 1. 45: +269.6% 2. 29: +262.0% 3. 36: +217.6% 4. 5410: +190.0% 5. 16, 4002: +171.6% 6. 22: +135.1% 7. 55: +112.5% 8. 23: +108.1% 9. 2520: +100.2% 10. 6240: +97.2% Top 10 Fastest Declining Tracts for Non-Hispanic White 1. 9251: -68.9% 2. 9326: -59.7% 3. 8230: -39.6% 4. 9386: -38.1% 5. 9321: -35.1% 6. 4302: -34.5% 7. 7534: -32.4% 8. 9336: -31.8% 9. 6933: -31.7% 10. 5002: -29.0%

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/21/us/asians-census-us.html?referringSource=articleShare A story about the growing Asian population in the US. Columbus was highlighted for its large Bhutanese population. It was interesting because it mentioned that they were refugees resettled in other cities, but ended up moving to Columbus later. It supports the idea that Columbus is growing more attractive to immigrants in general and aren't simply all being placed there by the government.

Top 20 Franklin County Census Tracts with the Highest Densities in 2020 1. 1121: 34,888.8 2. 1810: 28,351.1 3. 1302: 24,740.7 4. 1301: 20,549.1 5. 17: 20,158.6 6. 12: 20,069.6 7. 1110: 18,353.2 8. 10: 16,260.2 9. 16: 12,675.6 10. 6992: 12,451.9 11. 6933: 12,197.2 12. 21: 12,196.7 13. 20: 12,134.8 14. 7553: 11,033.6 15. 22: 10619.3 16. 8163: 10,389.0 17. 6352: 10,347.4 18. 6: 10,107.3 19. 47: 10,025.2 20. 4810: 9,602.5 All but 1 of the top 20 tracts with the highest densities are within 270. Top 20 Tract Density Increases 2010-2020 1. 1121: +14,031.7 2. 17: +6,638.6 3. 8321: +5,939.8 4. 4002: +5,354.7 5. 16: +3,823.0 6. 6992: +3,781.9 7. 22: +3,763.7 8. 8230: +3,306.8 9. 1901: +3,158.6 10. 21: +3,156.7 11. 6933: +3,133.4 12. 7214: +2,626.2 13. 32: +2,561.7 14. 6372: +2,328.0 15. 7830: +2,195.5 16. 7209: +1,868.7 17. 7532: +1,785.0 18. 7553: +1,783.6 19. 7721: +1,676.4 20. 9230: +1,654.1 18 of the top 20 fastest densifying are also within 270. Tract Density Breakdown 2010---2020 30K+: 0-------1 25K+: 1--------2 20K+: 3-------6 15K+: 6-------8 10K+: 8------19 9K+: 16------24 8K+: 25------40 7K+: 38------60 6K+: 59------85 5K+: 83-----130 4K+: 110----179 3K+: 125----226 2K+: 138----267 1K+: 152----303 500+: 156---316 1K+: 156-----324 Because the total number of tracts increased, it's not a direct comparison, but there was still an obvious density increase across the board. To show this in a different way, here is the total population living in Franklin County tracts by density. 2010---------2020 30K+: 0---------12,131 25K-29,999: 11,017----4,324 20K-24,999: 7,300----15,137 15K-19,999: 14,340----9,364 10K-14,999: 5,956----43,181 9K-9,999: 26,893-----17,803 8K-8,999: 35,406-----70,861 7K-7,999: 45,888-----80,084 6k-6,999: 96,802----92,064 5K-5,999: 90,735----173,855 4K-4,999: 147,095----195,439 3K-3,999: 223,785----199,410 2K-2,999: 191,724-----191,454 1K-1,999: 164,684-----137,001 500-999: 47,217------49,494 1-499: 34,019-------25,235 Cumulative Population Per Density 2010------------2020 30K+: 0-----------12,131 25K+: 11,017------16,455 20K+: 18,317------31,592 15k+: 32,657------40,956 10K+: 38,613------84,137 9K+: 65,506-------101,940 8K+: 100,912------172,801 7K+: 146,800------252,885 6K+: 243,602------344,949 5K+: 334,337-----518,804 4K+: 481,432-----714,243 3K+: 705,217-----913,653 2K+: 896,941-----1,105,107 1K+: 1,061,625----1,242,108 1+: 1,142,861-----1,316,837

Didn't they already do a lot of remediation or am I thinking of another site?

It would be interesting to know how many people who live Downtown actually work there. I am not sure it would be as high as some might assume, but I could be wrong.