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They also ended up redoing "The Crew" side and fixing the weird letter spacing. It looks much better now. At first it was THE C R E W.

He was also wearing a shirt with a big whale on it. lol

I can't wait for the meltdown on the Schumacher Place Civic Association Facebook page.

I saw that, too. I wonder if they're just improving that little park space, there, as part of the city's improvements to the area.

Nothing yet as far as a tower crane. Things are moving along on the site, though.

Clintonville is a lost cause. Such suburban development.

It also helps when you have stakeholders with a lot of money contributing as it seems this project does. Ohio State's campus will soon heavily straddle the river and they will benefit a ton from a beautiful riverfront. This goes the same for other areas along the rivers.

Definitely recommend Clear Creek. I actually prefer it to Hocking Hills. There are some great trails with way less people.

Wow. Skimming through that proposal, there are some truly amazing things being proposed. If a fraction of that gets done, it would be amazing. Makes me want to find out ways to get involved in any way.

Does anybody else think that the "River Pavilion" looks like a ramp to try and jump to the other side of the river?

366 East Broad has a decent amount of progress. The concrete has begun to go vertical. As of yesterday, the 13 story tower site is still just a big hole in the ground with no equipment on site.

Yea, that stretch of High Street is depressing right now. Driving south on High Street, you pass through the bustling Short North, and then, afterwards, you come to this area filled with decaying buildings, seedy characters lingering around Long Street, and empty store fronts in the ugly Nicholas building. We really need to inject some life here.

I'm just guessing, btw. I have no idea, actually.

Sheetz

So, somebody needs to file another 311 complaint to the city like when that one building didn't match the plans?

The new I-70 eastbound bridge over Parsons has opened and eastbound traffic is now using it. It gives a really good view of the Nationwide Children's campus. As the campus builds out even more, it will be an impressive sight for people passing through Columbus.

The new I-70 eastbound bridge over Parsons has opened and eastbound traffic is now using it. It gives a really good view of the Nationwide Children's campus.

STDs are rampant in retirement communities.

The increasing quality of education at Ohio State is exactly why campus is becoming more basic. Those types of parents aren't impressed by the "gritty" bar feel when they visit. They want to see a nice clean campus area. They certainly aren't impressed by frat bros throwing up right across from campus. I wonder how long it will be before Campus Partners can eliminate their last hurdle, Midway. If Newport wasn't such an interesting building, I bet that area would have already been redeveloped.

Big Bang Dueling Pianos is actually moving into that space.

Look out, whale watchers!

So, you believe that Austin would be on an entirely different trajectory if you removed their rail transit?

The sunbelt is currently booming, right now. And rail transit in nearly all of those cities can hardly even be considered to exist in comparison to cities like NYC and Chicago, places where many of those newcomers have relocated from. Nobody has ever said, "I'm moving to Austin from Columbus because of Austin's superior rail transit."

There's no data that really backs this up, though. If we take the assumption that rail transit is such an important relocation factor, it becomes hard to explain the rise of the sunbelt and population decline in cities like Chicago. Jobs, climate, cost of living. That's why people move. Combine 2 out of 3 of those things, and you get people. Combine all 3 and you get a boom. Take Columbus exactly as it is with no rail transit, plop it next to an ocean in warm weather, and we would be booming and wouldn't be having this conversation.

Not at all, and I'm not sure how you interpreted my comment as that. I'm getting on the "people don't move to one city from another because of rail transit" boat. I disagree with your assessment that Austin is growing more rapidly and has more identity than Columbus simply because it has rail transit. If rail transit was the main factor at play for relocations from one city to another, inter-city migration would look much different than what we currently see in the US.