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Is that all of the different medical entities in the city? Having a real health care investment boom here I guess!

I don't even drink anymore and I want to go hang out here.

Exactly. Cameron Mitchell had the finances and the safety net to try out new concepts, and if they fail so be it. Mom and pop doesn't have the luxury of their business failing within a year. They'll be paying off those loans for decades and it could ruin their lives. New concept is going to go in the well established highly trafficked areas and they'll eventually make their way towards the newer developments around the city once those developments are proven to be successful. Downtown North Market is a prime time example of this. It's a low barrier of entry to try a new concept there since you don't need to invest in the infrastructure, marketing, good chunk of equipment etc. You can test the waters without selling your soul to the bank and make an educated decision about the future of your business from there. In comparison, Bridge Park North Market has not yet proven itself to be nearly as successful as downtown which is why you see such high vendor turnover there currently. They're still figuring it out there.

I just don't get how someone can raise issue with with having more versions of nice things lots of people enjoy in different areas of central Ohio. Just makes the stuff we all enjoy much more accessible to the 2 million+ people living in and around this city. It's pretty fun to head to Bridge Park, eat some food, play some pinball, hit the park, walk across to Old Dublin and hang out there etc. etc.

Yes... if things were different they would be.... different.

I can't relate to this thought process at all. They opened more versions of things people like. That's what successful businesses do. New concepts are an insane financial risk, especially in the food industry. They are starting to open more unique concepts now though that the development is well established and successful. Bridge Park is still VERY young and literally still under construction, there is way more to come. You start with things you know will make money, start collecting that money and then once the development has proven to be a financial success, you can start taking more risks since you have a safety net built up.

Why is that a bad thing though? Isn't that what developers should be doing? Learning lessons from other developments, taking what works and dropping what doesn't work and implementing those changes into an overall better development. Bridge Park isn't trying to advertise itself as Short North 2.0 or anything, it's advertising itself as a nice, dense, walkable, safe place to live and have fun, which it has absolutely succeeded in doing.

I know, I noticed.... I didn't want to come back and disappoint everyone haha. I'll just walk in there tomorrow and ask them when they are getting the boot.

And just for comparison, the lowest paid 19 players on the Crew combined make the same as Zelarayan. Plus we got the Crew 2. Would be a cool spot for some young players to be roommates and live the high life.

I think you're overestimating how much professional MLS players make haha. The minimum salary they can pay is like 85K/year to a player. NHL players on average are paid much more, but those guys that bounce around between the lower leagues and the NHL aren't making "buy a condo in a city you might not be in for more than a year" type money. Plus this is Columbus, we aren't paying superstar salaries.

Well it's just two apartments on the top livable floor with the best views of downtown. The two up at that high end price are also enormous and at least one of them has multiple balconies. I don't think those few apartments priced at that are for us normal folk. Sounds like a spot for a Crew or Jackets player to rent or something like that. The remainder of the building is priced pretty typical for a brand new build in a hot area in Columbus.

Great to hear an update on the sculpture. More public art is always good, especially something on a scale like this one.

You're the perfect person to answer, appreciate the response! Thank you for reminding me about Indochine Cafe, I forgot about that place. Heard nothing but great things but also never been. Might be my lunch stop on Friday now!

Serious question: For everyone who does not live in Whitehall, is there anything they have over there that gets you to visit the area? I only ask because I've only ever been over there to go to the park and nothing else. This development looks like it could legitimately be a destination to visit and not just a place to live. It's just great to see some of the less talked about suburbs get new developments that may draw people in.

It's a personal phone that they taped to the window to get a time lapse of the storm. Might need to recruit them for this forum though...

The thought of living downtown sounds pretty cool but once you start thinking about how many inconveniences that would create, it really starts to lose its' appeal. It's no NYC down there, you don't have 100 restaurants, multiple gyms and other services, multiple grocery stores, convenience stores, pharmacies etc. to choose from within walking distance for all of those things one needs to live. You essentially still need a car to live down there and until they figure this stuff out, we are never going to have the vibrant downtown with a sizable permanent population that would make this city so much better and more interesting. I have hope that they'll figure it out though, it's likely just going to take longer than all of us here would like but that's the nature of things these days.

Well I hate to say it...... but one of the factors of being a successful NIMBY is generally having money or some kind of pull in the community. They aren't going to care at all about what people who move next to the airport have to say about noise from the airport. Kinda like how nobody cares when you complain about it smelling like s**t after you moved next to a farm. If NIMBYism worked in lower income communities, they all wouldn't have major highways running through them. Most successful NIMBY groups are full of millionaires. Heck, there was supposed to be an enormous offshore wind farm near my hometown that would have been so helpful for the people that actually lived there. The rich summer house owners and Ted Kennedy and company got the entire project shut down because on the most clear of days they might have been able to barely see the turbines way off in the distance.

They should make it both able to shoot out water AND fire. Would keep things quite interesting.

I'm just messing with you! We appreciate any and all photo updates!

Are you selling prints of this out of focus stack of logs by any chance?

It's just absolutely insane how much planning needs to go into construction projects of this size.

Well what you don't hear about those pools and waterparks is the constant huge headache they are to maintain. I use to inspect pools and the biggest ones would go down for huge maintenance issues all the time. The two biggest I inspected both leaked and were run by the YMCA. We had no authority to shut them down where I was an inspector but the City of Columbus inspectors do have that authority and use it liberally every Summer. They also only inspect pools here once per year though where they are generally inspected 6 or more times in most other places. Another reason why you don't hear too much about big pool issues, it's easy to hide them for the 90 minutes a year the inspector is there. They also rotate the inspectors so frequently in the city that they never get a chance to really learn about the pools they are checking out and might miss entire pump rooms or other support features if the pool operator knows to not mention them.

This is honestly great to see. I think one of the worries everyone had was "is moving the bodies going to slow the project down" and I think these images kinda demonstrate it won't. Seems they know where they need to look and have this part of the process very well planned out and is likely a part of their completion estimates.

I've actually been inside that facility and they even keep things secret from themselves! A lot of people working in there have no idea what types of projects their coworkers are working on.

Wow this article is actual journalism! Cool to see a real article published for once and it's kinda sad that this was worth mentioning.