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One thing they mentioned as a major factor in why Columbus got chosen was because of interest and a possible partnership with a professional sports team. We only have two of those and they both have land in the Arena District. If they are partnered with the Jackets for example, maybe they can coordinate with Nationwide to build this on one of the surface parking lots they own down in the Arena District. This would be way better suited for downtown than somewhere like Easton or Polaris, let's not make it normal to bring large events to shopping malls as far away from our urban core as possible.

I'm pretty sure I remember reading tons of opposition to proposals that did include a lot of high density housing. Such a shame because Worthington is a nice little town but they're going to get left in the dust if they aren't willing to approve high density housing such as townhouses, condos and apartments. Hell, if they had brand new for sale townhouses or condos, I'd strongly consider looking to purchase one.

Well it's a good thing they found this all out now while it's still under construction and not in 2026 after some huge rain storm sees water leaking in all over the place or something.

"Sorry sir, we actually don't speak English over here" said in perfect English with no accent.

Another super disappointing addition to the neighborhood. A Five Guys will be taking up some of the space at the former Chase Bank site at 3655 N. High right next to the Sbarro that nobody ever goes to. This coupled with the addition of a Dunkins/Baskin Robbins hybrid further south on High all add up to round out an incredibly disappointing year of development in the Clintonville neighborhood. I don't understand why the commission is wasting time approving nonsense like this and ignoring real issues and developments that could actually improve the area. These are the type of businesses that belong in a strip mall on Bethel or Morse, not on High in Clintonville. https://614now.com/2022/food-drink/national-burger-chain-planning-first-clintonville-location

I imagine we should be seeing a lot of these huge mixed use projects starting to welcome retail, office and residential tenants quite often now. We obviously have Quarry Trails, The Peninsula, Gravity 2.0, the one in Italian Village, whatever they are doing in Grandview (I always forget if it's one development or multiple) and I'm sure there are a few other not as prominent ones I'm forgetting.

That's pretty cool. I've always wondered what these tower crane operators do if an emergency bowel movement comes knocking. Imagine climbing down a 400ft ladder or narrow staircase in that situation? Now they can operate cranes right from the toilet!

I wonder if this is another sign of the increase in manufacturing in the area. From my experience, cold storage warehouses are mostly used to store food products but can also be used to store materials sensitive to heat like really thin plastics and what not. I even have a client that operates a huge cold storage facility where they store trees! Really good to have in the area, especially for anyone who needs to have an emergency secondary location to store things cold if they lose power for extended periods of time for example.

Largest building I've ever been in is about 800,000sq ft. It was basically a little city in there with hundreds of people working 24/7. I can't even imagine what a space 3x that size would look or feel like. These things really are going to be something else.

Oh come on, is that really what they are doing with that building?!?! There's like 8 coffee shops and multiple ice cream places in the neighborhood already!

And I'm just sitting over here in Clintonville having seen TWO banks being built this year and nothing else.

I think it has been mentioned before, but hiding the surface parking behind the townhouses is a nice little touch. I understand there is a need for surface parking for lower unit number developments like this and I'm glad someone is making an effort to at least blend it into the surroundings a bit.

After being in town over the weekend, the rumor currently floating around is that this site is supposed to become a Sam's Club.

I don't know why, but when I look at these images I can't help but think this would be a great spot to film a scene for some kind of High School Musical movie.

My sister is an OSU grad and hadn't been near the campus area in probably over 6 months due to a busy schedule. This thing blew her mind this past weekend when she saw it, couldn't fathom how small it makes everything else look. Those two dorm buildings by the stadium and hospital use to tower over everything and now they look tiny in comparison.

Love how you can pinpoint exactly where this is just from two grainy photographs haha.

Just a little speculation here: I live right near this and drive past it almost everyday. I've recently noticed the amount of cars for sale on the lot to really be dwindling down to a point where half the lot is empty (as seen about two hours ago). I've never seen it anything but completely full since I've lived here. I wonder if things are moving behind the scenes and the car lot will be shutting down at this location sooner rather than later.

This will be pretty darn significant. Right now trucks are probably going all the way east on 16 to where it meets 79 off to the northeast outside this map and then driving all the way down 79 through Heath to access the Heath and Hebron industrial parks. Or they have to make sure they are using 70 and come up from the South from the Buckeye Lake exit to get to the same spot. Would be a nice way to alleviate some truck traffic through the more pedestrian areas. If I remember correctly to, that yellow area is significantly bigger than it appears. It's an enormous tract of land, might be a bit hilly in spots though. Port Authority should have an absolute field day if they get control of it. They're actually quite good at attracting business, the guy who does it is super personable and is absolutely a huge factor in how successful they've been at drawing in new business in recent years.

Yeah think of whatever price you're willing to spend for a small head of lettuce. It's probably something like $2 or so. Now try to open an indoor vertical farm that has infinitely more overhead but your customers are still only willing to pay $2 for a head of lettuce. It costs the indoor farm maybe $1.50 just to produce each head of lettuce while your conventional farm it costs them $0.05, and this sin't factoring in all the costs to get the lettuce on the shelves at your location grocery store. Add those costs in and you're probably losing tons of money. The only one I've seen be successful had literally one customer and they are a giant in the food industry. No logistics of coordinating storage and transport to dozens of places, this one company just comes and takes it all. And even then, they aren't quickly becoming multi-millionaires like they thought they would.

Yeah I've just worked with indoor vertical farms and they 100% regret getting into the business haha. It's not financially viable right now. There was a lot of interest in getting a bunch of them up and running around the US a few years back from both US and European companies, but they all seem to have abandoned the projects due to the huge financial risk associated with it currently. I do hope it pans out though, the operations are really cool but it's hard to justify spending 10s of millions on robots, utilities, rent etc. when you can buy a patch of dirt somewhere near the border and employ people from Mexico to work the fields and get the same $0.15/lb for your lettuce or whatever with 200x less overhead.

Super disappointing use of the old motel site there. There are already multiple other car washes on 79 and this parcel of land could be used for so much more. Sheetz is a great addition though. Heath is so weird because it doesn't have an actual downtown or anything, 79 is it and it's full of crappy old businesses. Good to see a few of the old junkers finally see their end and get replaced by something new at least.

Oh let me tell ya, vertical farming will never solve all the problems. There will always be a need for farmland. Only a few crops, mainly lettuce and micro-greens, that can be profitable being grown in indoor vertical farms. They really aren't profitable at all with how expensive the current technology is and how little you can sell things like lettuce for.

Character and quality cost a lot of money. Hard to both be affordable and really nice at the same time. Can't really have both within the metro area, you need to go a lot further away to find cheap high quality housing.

Would be a pretty effective use of a 0.25 acre lot.

I have a few clients who operate 800,000 sq ft+ facilities, one of them being exclusively a warehouse. 800,000sq ft is SO MUCH SPACE. Hundreds of people working in there at a time and there is so much extra room. Some businesses only need a few thousand sq ft of warehouse space at most.