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It was me, I reported it after posting my comment on the previous page of this thread. I'm so sick of the lack of accountability in Columbus and the City needs to do better ensuring these projects match the architectural approval, otherwise what's the point of taking up city staff, commissioner, and development team time reviewing all of this only to put blinders on and let them to go and build something else. This isn't the first building to do it, but I thought if I pick something that gets some negative publicity it might push them to make some changes to prevent it from happening again and we'd start getting projects actually match the approved drawings and renderings like in literally every other city the size of Columbus. The residents truly deserve better governance and oversight from the city. I also reported the damn cornice on the Brunner building around the same time and hopefully that's what got them into high gear installing the thing A YEAR after the building was "finished".

Can confirm this is the design making its way through the approval process.

I personally would love to see the garage torn down, you could fit at least 5 LC Matan sized buildings there, restore the street grid, and build the same amount of parking spaces if you had to in underground garages or in well designed parking podiums. While you're at it bring in the Greyhound station as part of a larger overall redevelopment and make River South and the Red Brick District a continuous stretch of solid urbanity.

That and the grass lot across the street from it would be great. With all these new units added a public park in the area would be nice, Goodale can't meet everyones needs can it?

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I've seen it and it looks like a mini Easton.

The comment above inspired me to pull the approved drawings from the city to see what the balconies would look like. Then I noticed that what they're building doesn't match the approval from the Downtown Commission. "Rusticated brick every fourth course" is definitely not what I see in the pictures above and there are other details that look different so far. The city is so bad at ensuring these buildings match, there seems to be little to no oversight. That's probably how we wound up with the Brunner Building that has pieces missing from the cornice more than a year after the building was finished.

That building looks like great infill. They just need to built something of a similar scale to the north and to the west.

Those renderings...

Let's hope it turns out that nicely...

I always thought it was named bridge park because of all the bridges to parking decks.

The parking lot for Equitas and the check cashing place on has signs up now for no customer parking. I asked Equitas and they said their lease with the owner of the lot has ended and not renewed because they plan to build something on the site. We should expect to some sort of project materialize for the site soon which is great news.

I'm indifferent to this project overall but I have the exact opposite feeling about what will happen with the commission. I could easily be wrong though.

Carpool to Polaris?

Is this all that different from the houses in the Westhaven development outside Nashville? I've seen your Nashville threads and you did make some points about the questionable developments there, but I could easily do the same with so many equivalent or worse examples around the Columbus area. It's pretty easy to make a development look nice when it's in a higher income suburb, under the control of one developer, and all contained in one large planned development.

You just kind of proved my point though, the units that are left are the most expensive ones on the upper floors. The lower floor units sold for between $400-600,000, if you check Zillow or the Franklin County Auditor. My example was a $600,000 ONE BEDROOM, here that's what people are paying for a two bedroom. I'm not saying Columbus doesn't have the demand, but to have a lot of these buildings get built we'll need a lot more people willing to spend very high prices on condos at a time when banks are reluctant to lend for these types of buildings after what happened during the recession. That's why you see all the wood construction low rises being built as rentals. It's a cheaper and safer investment.

We're complaining about this being 4 floors but if Chipotle is the tenant with 200+ employees I don't see how this would justify a tall office building. It's not like they're moving thousands of workers to downtown Columbus to need all that space. I'm not sure people are clamoring to live or work in a tall building overlooking a freeway and the thing across the street that helps deodorize the sewer system either. I think the price points that this market can support also hinder bigger projects, we're lucky to still have rents in some of the new buildings under $1,000 a month or only slightly over. I moved here from Portland which has a lot of 12-15 story apartments going up and a few taller condos between 20-35 floors. All those buildings have extremely high rents to support the construction costs. Here's a one bedroom for sale in the condo on the right: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1150-NW-Quimby-St-310-Portland-OR-97209/2087020102_zpid/? $608,000... I don't think people here would pay that to live downtown. The condos in Columbus that cost that much are at least two or three bedroom units. If you want the taller buildings, we're going to have to find people who will pay enough to live in them. There's clearly demand in the Short North for high rent to build nice buildings like Hubbard Park Place but Downtown isn't there yet. Here are some rental examples that have two bedrooms in taller infill projects that have units renting around $9,000 / month. https://www.hollandresidential.com/or/portland/the-rodney/floor-plans/ https://www.block17apartments.com/#! I don't think anyone would rent that in Columbus for a developer to justify a taller structure. We should focus on getting rid of our surface lots with good urbanism first. It's also probably good idea to keep building housing types people can actually afford. Both of those cities are growing at a much faster rate than Columbus and are in cities that have marketed themselves and capitalized on having a cool local culture. When I told most of my friends I was moving to Columbus for work the reaction was either "Where is that?" or "Ew, Ohio?!" The Midwest in general still has a negative perception in most places, which probably makes things a little harder for Columbus even though people who know or have been here know it's not like Detroit, Cleveland, or Buffalo. Whatever Nationwide ends up proposing in this location I'm sure it will be decent just like the rest of their buildings in the Arena District. We'll probably continue to see most of our taller buildings get built along High Street when they do get built.

Thanks for posting that, I was going to post here today to see if anyone knew what was going on since that whole parcel is under construction right now. It's harder to find out what is in the works in Grandview Heights, they don't seem to have the online transparency that Dublin or Columbus has with mapping and permit tracking.

I live in a new Borror building in the Short North and they're a horrible property management company and the building is horribly built. Granted, Ruscilli was the contractor, but the developer sets the budget at the end of the day. I've lived in other new buildings before and they're never perfect but this one is particularly bad. If you look at Google and Yelp reviews for their new properties most of them are unfavorable. I wonder what other buildings by Kaufman, Wood Cos., and Edwards are like as a resident. The Beeker looks like one of the better Borror projects so far, but I'm sure those residents will also experience poor customer service, build quality issues, and arcane fees.

The parking lot to the east of 230 E Long is fenced off in your picture which makes me think the parking lot with the retail along Long is going to start construction soon.

I wish there was a comprehensive plan to bury them throughout all of downtown and upgrade the sidewalks and landscaping to the downtown standards regardless of when new development takes place because it looks really bad down a lot of downtown streets. I think the reason why this building is going up faster on one side than the other is because of the pool. The one side has to be concrete up until the pool since I'm pretty sure wood construction can't support a swimming pool. The rest of the building will be wood frame so that can proceed faster.

There hasn't been any permit activity since around November but I think Zyrokai is right they're probably waiting for the hotel to finish up. With the alley being as narrow as it is I don't see how two different construction crews could work there at the same time. I'm pretty confident the project is still going to move forward.

Yeah the whole parcel is under the same ownership and the entire development was approved on one site plan.

Having been on the south and east facing balconies DevoIsDance is right you do feel exposed and uncomfortable on the balconies, the view of the surface lots and parking garage isn't particularly great either. The west facing side is much better in terms of looks and balcony enjoyment. It's nice looking down on the park and seeing the river.

The "extended stay hotel" zoned manufacturing is finishing up on Indianola. I wonder if they're going to hold off on the retail portion that was to front the street because why would they have planted grass and trees if they intend to build that anytime soon...