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My guess is site plan changes related to Thrive swapping the last 27 condos for 60 apartments instead https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/real-estate/2025/04/12/thrive-companies-gets-pushback-in-plan-to-switch-condos-for-apartments/82565286007/

Among other qualms, I still think the city allowing them to permanently close off 6th street is a huge mistake

LOL. Agree to disagree They're two of the most popular fashion retailers on planet earth and would drive a lot of traffic to Easton

What are those new structures for under the bridge?

New proposal from Wood Cos in Dublin, and much better than the previous one for this site IMO New retail development proposed near downtown Dublin features walkability, town square Columbus-based Wood Cos. is proposing a 94,000 square foot development near West Bridge Street and Monterey Drive This is the first project for Wood Cos. outside of the Short North Arts District in Columbus The developer is aiming for the majority of the space to be non-food and beverage retail https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/06/01/dublin-ohio-new-retail-development-downtown-bridge-street-park/83920566007/ https://dublinohiousa.gov/pzc/25-043/

While that would be awesome I think we can assume it won't be TJs: the article says it will be "a grocer with bar and dining area" However, if Littleton's is interested in downtown they would seem to fit the bill

Interesting update in this article on the Continental Center conversion: "A grocer that will occupy 11,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space in the 26-story tower is expected to be announced soon." "The retail space on the ground floor will be a grocer with bar and dining area." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2025/05/30/continental-center-tower-gay-street-apartments.html

Not that it's a gem either, but I assume that's for the smaller 7 story building

A crew was out last week painting over graffiti on the building, my guess is the city got on them about code violations. I wouldn't expect anything to happen with the property in the short term unfortunately, but would love to be wrong

Jaeger turned out very nice, excited to see what tenants end up in the retail space Hopefully Pizzuti can get started on Library Park IV soon

Glad they're finally activating the ground floor spaces. Wish we could get something other than bars along here though

Happy to have the residential units, but it's a shame the Y couldn't stay on as a lower level tenant and have kept operating the gym/fitness center component. When they announced their closure in 2019 they were hopeful about announcing a new downtown location "soon," that clearly never panned out

If anything, IMO the delay shows exactly why the downtown commission needs to delay demolitions until projects are absolutely locked and ready to go. Too many times we've demo'ed stuff for projects that never happen and end up with nothing but another empty lot

That's certainly a concern, but really this was only a conceptual review to begin with. They were never going to get approved at this meeting and the project isn't far enough along in development to even seek full approval yet. City staff identified several deficiencies with the proposal (posted on the previous page) that the developers should address For comparison, the mass timber tower at 9th and High was reviewed and approved over a March to August timeline last year. Maybe I'm naively optimistic but I don't think this proposal is all that far off from being able to get over the finish line. Add some art murals, refine the massing a bit, enliven the ground floor with the CVS entrance moved to the corner, and we likely have a winner here IMO

UIDRB is a design review board similar to the downtown commission. They issue "certificates of appropriateness" and are supposed to ensure the architecture of a project aligns with adopted design guidelines. They can't reject this solely for the height (especially now with the updated zoning) If the developers come back for approval having made a good faith effort to conform to the guidelines and still get rejected, then they can go to the Board of Commission Appeals, and if rejected there can go to environmental court