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Oh yeah, not something that bothers me. I can hear people racing on 315 every night from my place in Clintonville lol. My personal biggest detractor would be that I like to look outside and see nature not concrete, but you can't have it all!

Would be such an awesome location to own a condo. The downside obviously being the proximity to the highway, but outside of that you have Goodale Park and the North Market in your front yard and are a short walk to the Short North, Arena District and Franklinton.

If need be I can try and stand on top of the elevator core on game day to make it appear roughly 6ft taller.

No glue factories on prime farmland!!! /s

Windows facing the street on a piece of property designed to service automobiles is just asking for someone to drive right into the store.

The people of Heath are so gassed up about this project. With this development having space for new city offices, this will probably be the fastest approval ever haha. The Mayor is a very common site around town and apparently the dude is just grinning ear to ear anytime he gets to talk about this development. He knows it's nothing but a massive improvement for the city and he will go down as a Heath, Ohio legend if it's successful. No mentions of any type of timeline though so I'm very skeptical about that 2026 opening of the first buildings. 2026 only starts in about 20 months so they better get going!

Oh there is absolutely no way anyone is enforcing this because I've stayed in PLENTY of hotels that haven't been updated in much much much longer than that. And those are brand standard requirements to keep franchise owners from cutting corners, not any kind of government mandated program. Just like how nobody is seriously enforcing the hotel inspection standards, they often just don't happen or nobody follows up on the identified issues during inspections. As long as corporate gets their cut and the license is paid for every year.... game on.

I've stayed in plenty of mid-tier hotels that haven't been updated since the 90s! Most Embassy Suites for example. 10 years ago ain't too bad.

Oh whoops, I forgot to come report on that lol. No cars have been in the lot all week and now the sign is gone. I have to imagine something is actually happening now.

I wonder what Intels thoughts are on our recent 6000% increase in tornado frequency lol.

Yeah and we can't forget to mention that walking in that environment, which is very much built for cars, is kinda unsafe especially if you have children with you. Pickup trucks these days my head barely goes above the front hood and I'm almost 6ft tall. How is a smaller person or a child going to be seen?

I fully expect this thread to pop off once we are decently above ground level!

Running out of farmland is such a crazy thing to say to. Do people not realize the majority of the United States is uninhabited? We have PLENTY of land to use for agriculture it's not even funny.

They'll still need warehouses to store the stock for the stores and then more large trucks to get the stuff to the stores.

How to you recommend that these solar companies go about securing leases with dozens or potentially hundreds of different people and organizations to make that happen? We can't sit and wait for the government to make programs to incentivize this, we live in a reactionary society here in the United States and that's only going to happen once it's too late.

You've entirely missed the point of my comment if this is your response. I was steadfastly FOR the Cape Wind project just as I am FOR this and any renewable energy project. My point is the rich people screwed over the average folk in the Cape Wind scenario, this is just the flipped version where the rich folk are the ones spearheading the project. Both projects are excellent, benefit so many people, should happen and need to happen. The fact that Madison County doesn't have dozens of rich entitled families to grease the wheels to get their way is a good thing for this project as there will not be heavily funded NIMBY opposition. If the only argument you can come up with is "well... I don't like looking at it" then it's probably a project worth doing. The long term benefits far outweigh any local eyesore or any upstart costs. This is a project for the future of Central Ohio and it's baffling that so many people have such short sighted opinions and perspectives about these types of projects. Do you think the farms are natural? What about all the clear cutting that happened a century+ ago to make room for those farms? Should we return the land to its natural state and go back to being a hunter gatherer society? How would this project be feasible if it were placed on land closer to Columbus that is 10x the price? You offer up these topics as if they already haven't been considered. The project is happening where it is because it's the best location for it.

This whole thing brings me back to 10+ years ago when I did my senior capstone project on the Cape Wind Project on Cape Cod, MA and NIMBYism was a massive focus of my presentation. Everything was lined up for it to be a massive benefit to the local population but the rich and powerful got the entire thing shut down because on a clear day they might possibly be able to see a wind turbine off in the distance from the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port or whatever. This is giving me the exact same vibes it's just that Madison County doesn't have enough rich powerful people to stop it which is good for all of us.

Yeah I've seen the lot barren many many times over the year, the lack of cars in the lot might not mean anything.

Don't get your hopes up, you can go back in this thread into last year and I probably have a few posts like "there are barely any cars, maybe it's starting soon!". Although.... I did see it emptier than ever earlier this week. Haven't driven past in a few days since I've been sick but I'll try and check later this afternoon.

I think it's one of those situations where there is a very small minority of very outspoken people against these chips and this development.

I can't really tell from the picture and haven't been over there in a minute, but are these connected to the taller building or will there be a walkway in between?

Well a lot of that is going to feed animals that aren't in the US and get processed into products that are then not imported or sold in the US. Some certainly does but lets not pretend like all American grown crops are for use in the United States only. Somewhere in the American SW there are insane amounts of alfalfa fields and about 0% of that crop is sold in the United States. 50% of soybeans are exported and 20% of all corn is exported.

I think their point was that infrastructure isn't pretty to look at. It serves a function, it isn't an art installation. People think the solar panels are ugly? I think the roads they drove on and the cars they drove in to get there are ugly. It doesn't matter and this is also in rural Madison County, nobody goes over there.

50% of all soybeans grown in the US are exported and 20% of all corn is exported. Let's use the farm land that was being used to grow crops for other countries and put it towards providing something useful for actual Americans other than the 6 guys who farmed the land.

I had my opinions on this matter vindicated over on r/urbanplanning haha. There was an urban planning hot takes post and I had the same one I repeat here. Not every building needs ground floor retail and not every building needs to be a work of art, sometimes functionality is the most important aspect of a development.