zsnyder

Just noticed the architect on this. His office is a five minute walk from my house in Columbus. Would have never thought he did stuff of this scale...in Cincinnati.

What eats at me even more than the collage trope is that particular use of cornices.

OSU's dorm renos were much nicer, and I don't compliment OSU too much for its architectural choices.

Do you have access to those numbers per year, and also to total population per year? With what I know of OTR population, the gentrification (in the displacement sense) argument doesn't fly, simply because there was nothing significant to gentrify (again, people-wise) in the first place, especially following the flight that occurred after the riots. The choice for a neighborhood in that position is to let it disappear...or inject capital. And that's where we are now... Does the percentage change mentioned above have more to do with black residents leaving...or white residents moving in? I assume That 2000 leaving/year over 30 years must have some sort of front loaded weight on it, which is why I ask about yearly numbers.

Yes, that's corporex. The Ascent is the exception in corporex's portfolio, but that notion seems to have been short-lived.

A tower on top of the Found(ation)ry will make it glam and spark.

I thought this was essentially unassailable? Density a plus, I guess...but that building is acting like it's sitting on a parking lot in the suburbs.

Weird that they chose OTR. Their Columbus locations are (suburban), and one's in a strip mall. It's definitely not your usual Short North-OTR exchange.

Why would you think they would be doing a new build hotel? An inkling suggests you have inside information.

those renderings are an absolute disgrace, and if I were presented with this in any official capacity, I would actively stop paying attention at the completely irrelevant Marilyn (seriously, what in the hell does that have to do with anything that has ever or will ever happen in the tri-state area?) Monroe image on the title screen.

I meant a little in relation to the proposals as a whole. That being said, it hardly approaches Radiant City proportions. It's merely a nod to it.

Lol, they snuck a little Corbusier in at the end.

"Factory 52 pick-up."

Then who does the city fine? The city?

North Market is more a collection of food stalls than market, but yes, a more singular space...though I'd use West Side Market in Cleveland as the bar for something like that. That being said, I like the street vibe of Findlay more.

would be amazing to see the market expand into the existing Market-adjacent lots.

Didn't Michael Graves design counter-top paper towel holders, too?

Pretty sure it just transforms into a Pizza Hut when it's not being used.

Yes. This is far too noisy. I get that the banks is a destination/theme park, but do we have to bring Covington into this?

One hotel-shaped hotel, please.

I see now why they covered the Brent Spence. To point the astronauts in the right direction...

Definitely a really difficult problem. Makes me wonder if there are atria in the building that could be converted to courtyards.

I, for one, would be relieved if you would tone down all the fear-mongering and histrionics you bring to this forum. It's getting to the point where I don't want to open a thread if I see that big T next to it. This is a friendly opinion/suggestion. I'm not attempting to influence policy.

AC Marriot just finished a hotel near the Columbus convention center. Hilton is expanding with a 28 story tower across High Street and adjoining the convention center, itself. A comparable tower in the North Market's current parking lot, across from the convention center, should be breaking ground in 2022 and will have hotel space. That's good incentive.

Easton is finally getting into office space. The latest stuff there is all multi-story, but it's still not such a great performer on the residential side. Clayton is perhaps the wrong precedent, too (I was referring to as mostly as St. Louis' second downtown), it's a bit of a ghost town at night. Easton would be even better if the office and residential had been integrated from the start, but it was in the middle of Nothing and Morse Road when it broke ground. It had to start as a destination... Combine all that together, and maybe don't put it all under the umbrella of one developer and/or Architect (Easton still has that mall smell...), and we may have something. But we digress. The original post was a bit alarmist.