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Approaching from the east on 4th I was a little taken aback by how massive it looks now.

I agree with you on all this. Only one nit to pick, the stores in poorer areas tend to have more "sale" items that are priced to sell because they went unsold. The store at Spring Grove and Mitchell has a horrible selection, but of the healthier things it does carry, you can usually get them cheaper than the Newport or Oakley Krogers because they don't sell well and they mark them down to get rid of them before they go bad.

I may have missed it but I only noticed beer, wine, and mixers. No liquor.

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Also, walked down. Didn't buy anything, the lines were ridiculous. But it looks great. Reminds me of the urban grocery stores you find in NYC, Philly, Chicago, etc. Very similar to the Whole Foods on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philly, which is a mad house at all hours of the day. I'm sure the crowds will die down a bit though. Food hall is awesome. Has a mini Chelsea Market vibe. Overall, I give the store an A++ from this first look.

I believe the business owners on Court Street have actually been pushing "Lo-T-R."

I don't feel like his opinions are in conflict here. You can personally dislike Starbucks but recognize that TONS of people love it and consider it a positive to have. I feel that way too. Hate it personally, but for some reason many, many people love it.

Eh, the freeway skirts the western edge of the neighborhood, and certainly reduced its size long ago. But it is still a large neighborhood with thousands of residents.

Yea, I know that's technically part of downtown, but when I talk about downtown Cbus I'm really thinking of the area between the river and 5th Street.

Lol, well the streets are open to anyone so the students are free to drive around the Short North in their Teslas and Maseratis. That doesn't mean they live there. This isn't really a matter of opinion though. In the Short North, 47% of the population have a bachelor's degree and another 31% have a master's or better. So at least 78% of the population are not undergraduate students. 75% of the population is white, so I'm not sure how you could tell they were foreign from their car? The median household income is $60k, so not exactly college student wages. And only 18% of the population is between 18 and 24 years old, while 47% is between 25 and 34.

There's more mid-rise construction going on I think than high-rise, so probably wouldn't notice them from afar. But they definitely have more cranes than Cincinnati. Part of that is because we have more old buildings to renovate here. I don't know what to tell you about the pedestrian activity. I'm in Cbus a lot for work and to visit friends. Downtown has a lot of activity when I'm there.

I don't think this is true. The Short North population growth is more similar to OTR. It's young professionals mostly. Not a lot of OSU students living there. More employees than students probably.

I'm not sure where you're going but there are tons of cranes scattered throughout the urban core in Cbus. Maybe some of our central Ohio friends can provide a count? Also tons of pedestrian activity too, from the northern tip of the Short North to downtown. It's like night and day from just a few years ago. Similar to what we're seeing in our urban core in Cincinnati. Also lots of activity in Grandview, Franklinton, and German Village.

Is this just the Ohio portion of Cincinntai MSA or whole thing? If it's the whole thing, that could be skewing the numbers a bit. You can assume that around 7,000 to 10,000 of those jobs were in Kentucky. If that's the case, then the remainder of Ohio--minus the metros--was about break even.

If you end up in any of those places, you definitely took a wrong turn.

To put that in perspective, my area of Northside has about 10 units per acre and all the houses are single-family detached.

Yea, and that's why the trend toward smaller household sizes will lead to population losses. It'll be interesting to see if their tone changes once the growth stops. Mason could be very similar to what we now see with the development in Dublin if they'd let it happen.

As an aside, Mason grew 92% in the 1990s and 40% in the 2000s and only 9% this decade. That growth will likely reverse and turn into losses in the next decade unless they change their zoning to allow more high-density development. As it stands now, it is getting very close to being built out. EDIT TO ADD: The losses will be because of declining household sizes. Historically, Mason had very large households compared to the region as a whole, but it has been trending toward smaller households, and at a faster rate than the region as a whole.

Agreed. And we need the four lines in the reinventing Metro plan. Not just the two they are now talking about. I live in Northside and would take the Hamilton Avenue/Ludlow/Clifton line to work downtown everyday if it existed. The Glenway and Reading lines will be high volume but the Hamilton Ave and Gilbert/Montgomery Ave lines hit more high density nodes with lots of millennials. And nodes are key for BRT, vs. the relatively high densities found all along Reading Road, but very few truly high density nodes.

9/16/2019

Weather, culture, talent, history, walkability, vibrancy... should I go on? Haha just kidding Cleveland friends! ....sorta.

All to the detriment of our community and society as whole.

I received it too. Disgusting.