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Wobbly doorknob on the back door? Might as well demolish the entire building! /s

This is great! Need more rental housing geared towards the older community, a lot of people later in life don't want to deal with all the nonsense that comes with homeownership so this is a great option to have locally for them.

Nothing gets me going like the burying of overhead power lines!

I'm really interested to see how the activity in this area changes once this is open. This is going to add a ton of people right here and I can only imagine it's going to be successful and set precedent for larger more dense developments in the inner ring suburbs.

This is pretty much the best of both worlds here. Get to retain the old facade and gives the building some character while not having to deal with 100+ year old building nonsense on the interior. Looks old but is modern on the inside is exactly what a lot of people are looking for.

I've purchased trees as gifts from a place out in Licking County. A good arborist isn't going to come in and plant a tree when you want though, they're only going to be doing it during the correct time of year to plant that tree. Got my parents a Japanese Maple which I paid for in March but they wouldn't come out and plant until June or something.

If you pop down random side streets in Manhattan, you'll notice there are 0 businesses on some of them. Some places are for people to live, not for them to shop and spend money. It would be absolutely awful if ground floor retail was mandatory, there would be nowhere to live quietly.

Not every building needs ground floor commercial, there isn't a city in the world where that is a thing. We can let some residential and office buildings have nice lobbies and amenities for their residents and office tenants instead of a 14th Starbucks on the block.

No that's what I was saying, bigger trees aren't that expensive $8000 will def cover it. You can buy 5-7ft trees for like $250. You aren't going to get 20ft mature trees though, those are super difficult to transport since the root system is so developed and that's where things get crazy expensive. The trees they cut down only seemed to be in the 10-12ft range though.

Sapling are generally only a couple hundred bucks and stand maybe 3-4ft tall or so. This is enough money to get some more mature trees, but the pricing gets fairly steep fairly quickly the large the trees get since it's tough to safely transport a mature tree. You can even get some 7ft tall trees for like $200 + shipping.

I was in Downtown Detroit last weekend and was super impressed. Had never really done anything other than drive through Detroit before, but the downtown was walkable, relatively clean, has a ton of amazing old architecture, they have trains!!!!, and there was a very serious amount of development going on. Actually felt like a hustling and bustling city on a Sunday afternoon which is not something you can really say about Columbus most of the time.

One of my absolute favorite things to do at my work when I do technical writing for my clients is use the terms "bi-weekly" or "bi-monthly" as opposed to "twice a" or "every other". This way if it means "twice a" and you forget to do one, you can tell that auditor it actually means "every other" and you were just doing it extra because you are a real go-getter.

No height along high street allowed, but give us giant signage for big business and hideous paint jobs all day!

I'm am absolutely ecstatic about the outpouring of hate this specific Dunkin Donuts is getting. Literally nobody likes or wants it! Make me think of that At Dollar and Beyond store further up the street near the post office, or the My Pillow store that was in the area for a brief period of time. Like do people even do their research before opening businesses? Why would a dollar store do well in this neighborhood? Why would an alt-right pillow store do well here? Why would a crappy coffee drive thru open in a neighborhood that has 4 of those plus multiple local coffee options do well here? I just don't understand!

If this happens, they absolutely need to keep a slide open that you can slide down to the parking lot.

Most bus stops have a small sign in the ground, that isn't enough shelter for you?! People in this dang city are impossible to please! /s

I don't even think the article was really saying that, more so they were having trouble finding them all in Central Ohio. I wouldn't even consider needing to hire construction workers from out of state as a problem as it's something they said they are very capable of doing right in the article. Seems like a good problem to have to me, means all the local tradespeople have plenty of work on their plates. Seems more of a problem for Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville, Pittsburgh etc. who are probably going to see workers getting poached for the Intel project.

I wouldn't put too much into these speculative articles. The fact of the matter is nobody knows exactly what's going to happen when it comes to how much of a struggle it's going to be, or not be, staffing up. People also seem to act like 100% of all young people entering the workforce are all wanting to live in NYC or something and that couldn't be further from the truth. A single fresh out of college person figuring out what's next for them in life is going to seriously consider a job at Intel if they are offering solid compensation and benefits package. I don't know why there is this common consensus that educated people refuse to live or work in red states. It just isn't true at all, 65% of the US population doesn't even pay attention to politics outside of an election year so I really think people vastly overestimate how much a lot of people factor politics into huge life and career decisions. Internet forums and reddit comments are not indicative of the population as a whole and we are in fact a tiny microcosm of society. Hell, literally the only reason I moved to Ohio was to get industry experience out of college and everyone thought I was crazy for moving from an east coast beach town to the midwest! My original plan was 100% to come here, get experience and then leverage that experience to get a job back on the east coast. I can live anywhere I want now and I'm choosing to stay here. If Huntsville, Alabama can be full of literal rocket scientists, Columbus, Ohio can be full of microchip technician people.

I'm always surprised how much more stuff is right in that area that you can only see from 104. Good amount of space over there!

I have not! I stopped using that route to leave the area once I learned I can go Parsons to 71 to go home (or more accurately Parsons to German Village to get lunch after my round). I'll make a point of going back home that way next time I'm out there, which will probably be tomorrow or Saturday.

I like to play the disc golf course Area 51 down in Obetz a lot this time of year and I usually drive down Parsons to get there. I swear from one weekend to the next this site went from smoothed over dirt to having giant walls erected. Was an involuntary "holy sh*t" type moment haha. They are moving incredibly quick!

I'm waiting for the huge drop to go scoop up some million dollar German Village homes for 60K once the vagrants and degenerates that are the only type of people who live in apartments move into the neighborhood.

Looks like there is one pedestrian exclusive strip down the middle that is probably where all the retail will be. Other than that it's just a typical lack luster development surrounded by surface parking. Nothing like driving your car here to walk up and down the one tiny strip designated for pedestrian use!

Not enough of them around Central Ohio! Probably most of them don't, at least for these single family home developments. Or they may be required within the development itself, but where the development connects to major roadways the sidewalks also end. My parents live in a newer development in Newark and it's funny to drive through there and see all the random pieces of sidewalks that don't connect to anything because they aren't required to build them until a house gets built on the lot.

I wish it was mandatory for developers to install sidewalks adjacent to the public roads they build these developments off of. I know people don't move to the suburbs with the intention of walking to places other than for exercise, but the presence of sidewalks would at least encourage them to be used.