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Boston's is literally the place you end up at because all the places you actually wanted to go to are way too busy. It's a mediocre chain, of course they aren't busy.

Where is this feature though? I don't see it anywhere. EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. It's hidden way at the bottom of the page. Thanks!

How do I make it go back to Light mode? The dark mode is so difficult to read.

Must be a home for vampires with the complete lack of windows.

If they were really smart, they'd convert some downtown building to apartments and offer discounted rental rates for Nationwide employees. Even a 5-10% rental discount would be a pretty insane perk to offer employees.

Exactly. College enrollment has been declining significantly for like the past decade as more people opt to pursue careers which don't require a college degree.

Where are you seeing this disdain for the trades? There are technical high schools all over this country that are full of teenagers training to be in the trades. The trades have literally never seemed like more of a good option compared to years past. College is more expensive than ever and jobs requiring college degrees are paying less than they ever have comparatively and the job market is more competitive than it ever has been. On the flip side, you start your plumbing apprenticeship at 18 after graduating from Tech school, you're a full licensed plumber by 22 making close to or more than 6 figures and you're owning a home by 25 while all your hometown friends are living with roommates or parents and paying off debt. Maybe what you hear on the internet suggests people don't like trades, but what I see out in the world suggests exactly the opposite.

These things aren't mutually exclusive..... Any and all work can both have negative impacts to your physical or mental wellbeing if you allow it to. It's not a competition of "which job suffers the most" out here and let's not do that it's unnecessary. I don't think anyone is pitting these two against each other either, there is nothing to support that claim. All jobs exist for a reason. If we didn't need the job, it would not exist. The teenager scooping your ice cream in the summer, the person picking up your trash every week, the soldier on post at a military base in Korea and the doctor saving your life, all of these jobs exist because there's a need for it.

Very relevant discussion to this thread as happenings at the Convention Center directly impact the development and business decisions of the Short North as they each benefit from each other. The influence of a neighborhood or area doesn't end at the arbitrary borders drawn on a map. Quarter Horse Congress is hands down our biggest event in town after the State Fair. It's 6x bigger than The Arnold just for reference. Pretty impressive and most locals are barely even familiar with it. I do wonder if these attendance numbers at the Convention Center are each day totaled together as well so if you're seeing 3,000 people for a 2 day conference that isn't 3,000 people per day, it's 1,500 per day. Similar to 650,000 attendees for the horse thing, that's the entire event not every day. Gotta love numbers and how people can twist them to paint a specific picture.

Yeah I've seen the calendar, that's exactly what made me leave the comment I did. Even three events at one conference center, that's potentially only a few thousand people in attendance between all events. The convention center hosts a ton of niche conferences and events and a very small amount of big events. That's just how it is I don't know why we are trying to make it more than what it is here, on average these conferences are not brining the quantity of people you seem to think they are to the area. They are making all of these improvements to the area to attract bigger conferences, that was literally the entire point of Hilton 2.0, Columbus wasn't even a consideration for big events because we lacked even a single 1,000 room hotel. And the construction of Hilton 2.0 hasn't changed that, they still really haven't drawn anything noteworthy in since that construction but sure have maintained what they had.

I think a lot of people overestimate how many people attend these niche conferences as well. I was just at one earlier this month for the biggest third-party food safety certification in the world which has existed since 1994. It was the biggest conference they have ever hosted. There were 800 people in attendance.

A few thousand people coming into one part of the city occasionally isn't significant enough to base any long term business decisions on. You literally don't even notice most of these events, only if you happen to be driving in the immediate few blocks around the convention center and go "sure are a lot of cheerleaders today". Other than that, it's quite localized to that immediate area.

That is not enough tourism to make tourists have that much of an impact on anything here. A massive percentage of those conventions at the convention center are local related events and all those people are from here, the immediate area or from other parts of Ohio. The Arnold is really the only event there where you as a local resident might need to adjust your plans if you normally are in that area. These numbers we are seeing about tourism in the Greater Columbus Area (note it's the entire area, not the city) are quite questionable to say the least. Columbus area really had more tourists in 2024 than Las Vegas? I don't believe that for one second.

Easton has a lot of high end shopping you can't find outside of a city and not in every city. People are absolutely coming here and making a visit to Easton part of their trip.

In what world is going to 2-3 spots in a single place NOT make it a destination? You're literally the only person with this opinion, can add it to your long list of opinions nobody else agrees with.

They aren't tourists, we don't really have those here. They're former Ohio State students who moved one neighborhood south after they graduated and other young transplants to the city. People love easy and Starbucks is easy.

This is the Short North, the character of the neighborhood is "chain food and bars". This fits in perfectly with the character of the neighborhood, the average person loves Starbucks. There are 4 local coffee shops I can walk to but the Starbucks in the neighborhood is consistently the busiest coffee shop in the area.

Not to mention there are some people who would really benefit from a ground floor residential unit such as people with mobility issues.

I think they will be finding out that running an entire grocery store is much much more difficult than running a restaurant. Good luck to them though, this is much needed.

Since when is Bridge Park NOT a destination? People go over there all the time to hangout. It's an excellent place to go grab food and walk around to enjoy the environment plus you can walk across the bridge to Old Dublin. It's just a very different type of destination compared to Easton. You go to Easton to shop, you go to Bridge Park to more so recreate.

Don't you dare shame me! I mean my friend.

This historically has been an incredibly important Taco Bell for tens of thousands of people over the years.

Question for the group: Is it weird to have strong romantic feelings for a construction project? Asking for a friend obviously.

I don't even play golf anymore but a 27 hole putting course sounds so goddamn cool.

How would tariffs make this more beneficial? Those are probably a major factor in this decision since all those would do is greatly increase the cost of materials for the project. I do not think it's a coincidence that the new projected operational date happens to start shortly after this current administration would leave office. That seemed very intentional.