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Side note... The construction fences for the demo are up and they started to cut in to the building to separate what's being town down and staying.

In 2021-2022, I traveled to 32 domestic airports. Whether the airport is brand new, or 50 years old, the clean, bright, white/gray, simple airports withstand the test of time over and over again. This is true whether it was 4 gates or 100. It's perfectly fine to have a good looking airport for a mid size city, that is not and will never be a hub. Whose passenger traffic puts us at the lower end of the top 50 airports. People pass through this airport and don't spend time in it unless you're an anxious traveler getting there hours before the flight. I know we want to ooh and ahh at Portland but we also have to have a reality check that Portland and Columbus are not similar. PDX doubles Columbus passenger traffic for a similar metro area, is a secondary hub for Alaska, nearly doubles the number of daily flights, etc. They have alot more funding to play with from tickets, gate fees, airline contributions, etc. CMH is a new city with a similar identity. The airport is not going to define it or be able to force one that is any different. Edit: FTR. This isn't me saying we are settling or that 'this is Columbus so its ok for what it is'. I think it's a stunning airport as it has been presented and is just right. Sure, my one criticism might be I prefer taller ceilings in the gate wings but there is nothing inherently wrong with what is being built.

The CU article is somewhat vague, but the NBC4 story on it definitively states that scooters will also be bound by docking stations. I get that scooters can be annoying, but the city moving to adopt a system that requires scooters to also be pulled from and returned to a hub is going to all but kill their use and effectiveness in terms of micro transit. And it feels like that's the intent. With over a million scooter rides a year, the city, if they do in fact adopt the docked scooters, we are potentially looking a micro transit numbers closer to CoGo overall being under 100k. This doesn't even take in to account that CoGo has all but been a city money pit for awhile. Per the Dispatch: "running at $1.1 million per year translates into a potential city per-ride subsidy of more than $20, in addition to what the renter pays Lyft to use the bike, which varies depending on the subscription plan." In the meantime, with 20x the number of rides, and almost 10% of COTAs ridership, scooters do not get public subsidy. As an early user of CoGo, the worst part was always docking stations, and then the chance that the docks nearest an event would be full (and if course the city not having flexible docking options for events), scooters became my number one way to zip around town after awhile. It's also expanded my exploration and visitation of small businesses and restaurants. Scooter etiquette has come a long way from where it was. Seemingly kneecapping it by reducing its availability and accessibility seems like a less than ideal way forward. I'm excited to potentially have more bikes than are currently available, but this really seems like it's a backhanded way to effectively ban scooters, and try to save any semblance of a bike rideshare that has been struggling financially while simultaneously seeing an increase in ridership. I just don't have much hope for its success.

Yeah. My reading on this isn't a new drive through restaurant. It's a change to the gas station set up it seems.

Did the gas station close?

Because Columbus isn't pulling in the corporate money that those places are. It's not just developers. Columbus needs to attract the business dollars and staff to see that kind of vertical growth. Companies that leave other markets favor those 3 at the moment. Things will shift eventually. But until they do, don't expect a tower boom anytime soon.

*stares in Minneapolis*

I wish the Pearl Alley glow up from years ago was part of this.

*stares in other airports of similar size that cost similar amounts*

*stares in $2billion*

I'll stand alone and say absolutely not. Wiping out another entire block without any attempt at preservation. Pass. Again, when it's all gone, it's gone.

I think there were some other renderings out there but these were the placeholders NRI originally put out as the NW campus was finishing completions. Prior documents just ad the space open.

I can't find it but weren't the prior (pre-covid) concepts for this lot lower density townhomes lining the park? If so, this is a fair bit better if they increased the unit numbers.

Does the commission have the power to say no for McDonalds? Fine. You want to be just a mcdonalds. Great. You already have that. We aren't approved any lot changes because what you have is all you get?

Unnamed Cameron Mitchell Concept Number 13,729 incoming.

It's been used by Peta and it wasn't the sexual abuse victims, but some other group put something criticizing OSU at one point there too. IT used it to put a creepy clown over McDonalds. Compared to other locations, the folks that use that space seem to understand that location well. I am curious how that plays in to redevelopment in anyway. Where we've seen that a building will be built around a billboard, doesn't being an extention of the building play differently than a traditional mounted or free standing billboard. But really what I care most about is getting rid of that dangerous curb cut. That, very clearly, one way parking lot is a free for all and the amount of people and cars I've seen just about get hit because there's no regard for right of way is way more than should even be tolerated.

As a bit of a side note, it eliminates the AD space on the side of the building to the north. Ad space that has been notably used to target McDonalds or Ohio State unfavorably in the past.

I know this is only anecdotal but post covid, I can't recall ever seeing more than one or two people there any time I passed. The couple times we ate there, we were the only ones inside and very few pickups or deliveries went out. It very much felt like a dying business for awhile. Would be nice to see him sell and just help finish up that section of Lane but I wonder if he will pull a Short North Family Dollar and just hold on no matter what until that overpriced deal of a century comes along.

I think their corner of downtown is nicely out of the way for now. Agreed on getting them to spruce up the campus and be a better neighbor aesthetically and perhaps more eifficient land use and buffer zones but I've never heard anyone complain about the trucks until now. There's so much space downtown that this land isn't necessarily needed or ripe for redevelopment either. Like Rogue, it provides a different type of job that isn't office or hospitality to a core population. If we keep advocating for the displacement of the blue collar jobs to the outskirts, that increases demand for residential outside of the city. Now, once downtown is filled to the brim, perhaps it's might be a different conversation to have, but we are nowhere close to that.

Will they be not be building the new garage at the same time?

I'm less worried about filling the spot it once stood and more interested in where the city is on following through with reconsidering the flag and seal.

It is most likely ADA. Songbird/Cava had the same issue. The city made variances for parking but not so much for ADA requirements. Use a permeable surface and it will look fine.

I think driving through the university district is a perfect counterpoint to the idea that multiple developers produce better, more varied results. Also, let's just pretend the copy and paste is mirroring the buildings on either side of the Supreme court. I agree with jonoh81, that developers only do what they can get away with. Especially when financing is tight. The city and CDDC are the ones failing to hold developers to something better. That being said, I'll gladly take more scioto Peninsula buildings as is than half of what's being approved, duplicative or not. The Peninsula will be clearly identifiable by it's time period but it will hold up better over time compared to others.

Maybe some design differences, but the area across from COSI is comparable density to what was built and while a couple of buildings have some flourish, there's plenty of copy and paste conceptualization of 4-7 story buildings throughout. They also likely would have struggled with materials and designs along with making a new tower, let alone two, work with Columbus financials, let alone between 2017 when they released their concept and 2020. I don't think it's worth much to worry about the differences. 6 of 1, half dozen of another. It's not quite the same as some of the differences in the North Market proposals and final product.

The hand wringing isn't that it is not possible. It that we don't trust the leaders. In many ways, the city gets in its own way. So when it come to the city taking this seriously, we KNOW they could go to one lane, but I'd put alot of money on them having far more excuses was to why it isn't, not to mention the state having its say since it is a state route etc. Heck, LinkUs already plan on shared lane use in far west broad instead of dedicated lanes and islands where broad is the absolutely widest so my guess is where broad faces a choice like this, we will see far more mixed lanes than we should.