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Sounds like a great and needed project, they're just asking all the people they've pissed off over the years for help and have never extended any assistance to the Village or County in the past. I know they outright refused to allow the County to use their campus and buildings for emergency evacuation / emergency housing needs scenarios. Literally wouldn't even let them use it in a training capacity let alone in an actual crisis event. Refuse to cooperate with any type of County level planning as well.

I'm happy to see this is some pretty niche rental pricing and not creeping up towards becoming normal everywhere around the city. These are absolutely for those transient rich people types which are a tiny minority in this city.

We are missing a unique amenity here in the city, would be a perfect spot for one. We have nice and cool things here, they just seem to be things you can also find in other cities. Doesn't take away from them being good or us being appreciative of them, we just don't have that "must see" or "must do" activity or site to see if you are visiting from out of town. I swear if I hear someone mention taking an out of towner to Easton or Polaris one more time my head is going to explode. They've seen a mall before! They have them everywhere! We still have stuff worth seeing like COSI, Veterans Memorial, Sporting Venues etc., but they are for us they aren't really to attract out of towners. Something that does attract out of towners here for visits that isn't an event like a big OSU game, a huge country concert or The Arnold would be awesome.

Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Denison is notoriously difficult to work with and has not made a lot of friends in both Granville and Licking County governmental circles. They think they are some hot s**t up on that hill and look down upon the village.

If the commission doesn't make them change something, then they can't point at the building and pretend they had something to do with its existence.

It's absolutely important to remember how things use to be. Really easy to get wrapped up in the "new" in this city that we forget to appreciate how far things have actually progressed.

Just stick with "it's happening!" and eventually when they build houses there sometime in the next 2 to 20 years, you'll be vindicated!

You are something else lol. If you read the statement, it said 35 minutes longer than his normal route. But I think we are done here.

I've made the drive man, literally dozens of times. Not everyone up there lives near a road and Google Maps will take you down private access roads and dead ends that aren't actually open. It also isn't accounting for the fact that you'll be driving 10-15 MPH and not 55 like Google Maps thinks. Had a guy way out there who owned a food truck and he had to take a route like 35 minutes longer than the path of least resistance because his truck was too big to make some of the turns coming in from his normal direction. Would just park his truck at his friends in Hanover once the season started because it was such a huge pain to get it back home. But if you're just going to be the "prove it" guy anytime I share my personal experiences and observations, I'll just refrain from sharing them.

I was the health inspector in Licking County for over three years. There are parts of Licking County that are close to an hour from a grocery store and it sin't even close to being the most rural county in Ohio. Why are they so far from a grocery store? Forests and curvy narrow roads, they're nowhere near any farm fields. And let's not confuse rural and country here, these are entirely different classifications of an area. There are 100+ acre lots for sale in Western Licking County right on the Franklin County border. Is that the country because it's a big piece of undeveloped property? It is not.

That's actual country living right there! Just because you can see corn doesn't mean you're in the country! Country living is actually horribly miserable unless you're very rich. You either live out there because you want to be away from people or you live out there because you don't have any other options.

The biggest criteria to be living in "the country" would be if your grocery store is actually a Dollar General that isn't even near your house. If you can get to a real grocery store in under 20 to 30 minutes, it isn't the country at all. Also presence of farms doesn't mean you're in the country, it just means you're near a farm.

Eh, it's too close to a city to be "the country". There are very very few parts of Ohio that are actually "country". You're never far from a major highway and you're never far from a town with things outside of a few remote areas in the state. We have a fairly urban state here compared to most others.

Hugely underrated feature of living in Ohio is how easy it is to go places at anytime, whether that be the grocery store in the neighborhood or other cities 2-8 hours away. I grew up in a summer tourist beach destination and if you wanted to plan something fun on a weekend you had to either leave insanely early or accept the fact that you'll be sitting in 2+ hours of traffic somewhere on your journey, likely traveling both to and from your destination. Part of me always wants to go back, but the significantly higher cost and the insane amount of time wasted sitting in traffic is keeping me here (amongst other factors).

One of the weirdest phenomenon I observed after moving to Ohio, specifically Licking County originally, was what people think "country" is. I had some woman loudly proclaim to be while in the Village of Buckeye Lake "you're in the country now boy!" and I was so confused because I could hop on the highway and be in downtown Columbus in 35 minutes. Country to me means dirt roads and no cell service, I don't think it means what these people think it means.

There's a joke here somewhere...

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an Evolved artist branching off to open their own shop. I served on the state board to review the body art rules with the owner of Evolved and he was a super down to earth guy, wouldn't surprise me to hear he would support artists he helped bring up to branch off on their own.

Such excellent use of this space honestly. Pretty solid foot traffic in the area so the coffee shop will do well and weird / non ground level spaces are perfect for tattoo shops since they are a destination type business and location really doesn't matter since you'll go wherever the artist you want is.

Say what you will about New Albany, but they are being quite proactive about their future which is always good to see.

It's New Albany. They'll have people fighting each other to buy these homes before they even start clearing dirt. New builds are not sitting empty. They are getting moved into the second they are ready while your neighbors house is still a slab of concrete.

I was there on Wednesday at 6pm, an hour before closing, when it was absolutely pouring rain out. Wasn't packed but the place was certainly busy, most of the table upstairs in the section they had open had people at them.

Hold on a second.... we can't be complaining or worrying about it being too hot yet! It was just too cold like last week!

This is @ColDayMan subtly suggesting someone get the hell up there and take some photos!

Would be hilarious if the developer is just going to keep adding floors until someone notices and tells them to stop.

Yeah I guess these particular areas are areas identified as needing zoning changes to allow for more height and density. That's like the one thing downtown excels at haha.