Summit Street

Nice! This looks like it will be a fun series to watch.

"The lament that all of these open lots should be built on first doesn't fly because the developer obviously wants to build on High Street." You were attacking those of us that feel the empty lots should be developed before tearing down other structures. You state that the developer wants to be on High Street, and imply that the only way to do so would be to destroy buildings. And of course they can't build on land they don't own, but at one point in time they decided to purchase the lot they do own instead of the other.

There are parking lots on High Street, one block over. And? The company doesn't own the lots to develop them. They can only build on what they own. From what I understand the thin lot between High and the City Center garage may have plans drawn up for development, but it hasn't been announced yet. My post about parking lots on High Street was in response to the other statement made about how 'obvious' the reason was for building on High Street, where it suggested that there are no parking lots.

There are parking lots on High Street, one block over.

The urban core is not at all synonymous with 'within 270'. I think it is awesome that Columbus is adding residential to downtown, and I realize as a perspective vs. now it sounds good, but having 10,000 people in 2020 is still an embarrassing number for a city of this size.

Bloomington ~70,000 Normal ~50,000 (has Illinois State university ~20,000) MSA ~130,000 Bloomington, Illinois: Has some nice structures. Historic square with a few north/south streets running up for a few blocks that are mostly filled in. They have free street parking, and I noticed that in the evening on a weekend, those streets were packed with cars(and people too.) Historic square with the old McLean county courthouse Home of State Farm Insurance. The tall one is their tower, the short one is something that was built in the 1980s to replace a historic block that burned down. Normal, IL: Downtown Amtrak station, right up against the historic district. Easy to recognize as an old railroad town. Also has a circle with a monument in the middle of the 'Uptown'. (Bloomington has the downtown, and is just south of Normal.)

I think as long as we're adding residential, that's the important part. More people will ultimately lead to more projects down the line and all those ugly surface lots will gradually disappear. But if we only add residential to locations that involve tearing down existing structures, it will take an extremely long time to fill in the surface lots. It is good that we are adding residential, but as it is now the downtown area population is very low for the size of the area. The official borders of downtown has what, just over 5,000 residents for 1.8 sq. miles? The population could increase five times over and still probably wouldn't be able to completely fill in the parking lots, especially if you are hoping for more than six story buildings.

Crawfordsville, Indiana County seat of Montgomery county; Population about 15,000; served by two Amtrak lines; near the Illinois border. Montgomery county courthouse. It looks like the top is missing…found out that it was designed by George Bunting, and it had a clock tower. It developed a leaning problem and was removed in the 1940 decade.

St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Foshay Rhinoceros. A Cleveland rhino.

Tacoma, Washington Olympia, Washington Ok, no more Washington, I'm back to Ohio now.

Looks good for the size.

Sadly, for as rich of a train history as it has, Ogden has no more Amtrak. They have a bus connection, or you could take the commuter rail into Salt Lake City.

Bellingham, Washington Whatcom county courthouse:

No county courthouse?

Well, I believe in salt lake's case it took hosting an olympic games to get the funds for rail. Not that I'm jealous as a columbus resident or anything. It also seems to help that nearly the entire population lives on a long north-south area that is very narrow due to mountains. It just made sense to throw a passenger rail line through it. It is a big tourist place for the ski people, and combined with the olympics from the past, the place has an absurd number of hotels I didn't see any residential areas that excited me, but I wasn't able to give a thorough search.

Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah Ogden, Utah

Columbia center, the tallest in Washington at ~937 ft: Russell Investments Center (597 ft.): big cranes: Smith Tower, went up 1914. 489 feet of awesome 4th and Madison tower Library and Safeco Plaza (630 ft): small part of the Atlantic neighborhood: Olive 8, residential/hotel (455 ft.): 901 Fifth avenue building. Built in 1973, has recently been renovated and certified silver LEED: US Bank Centre monorail with Westin tower in background (449 ft.) Ranier Tower (514 ft) from Mercer Island: University of Washington: University of Washington: University of Washington: University of Washington: University of Washington: University of Washington: University of Washington: U. of Washington, fun fact - the area was originally built for the 1909 world's fair: University of Washington: University District- University Way is the main commercial block for the students. Although most structures are short, they stretch on both sides of the street for quite a considerable distance. The best part is, unlike the large university in Columbus, the restaurants all seem to have character: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: University District: Back to downtown: gum wall: the sport fields have retractable roofs: Fremont neighborhood: Fremont neighborhood: Fremont neighborhood: Fremont neighborhood: Fremont neighborhood: Fremont neighborhood: Fremont neighborhood: Smith Tower Seattle Tower, 1929: 1201 Third Avenue (772 ft): New ferris wheel this year: Also, Space Needle has gone orange for the 50 year celebration Bellevue in the background: Bellevue up close: Bellevue: Bellevue: Bellevue: Bellevue: Bellevue: back to Seattle: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: Wallingford neighborhood: airplane time: boat time: Across Elliott Bay in west Seattle, there is Alki point. It was the birthplace of Seattle when Arthur Denny and his group first decided to make a city. Today there is a little beach and some stuff around the area: Alki Beach neighborhood: Alki Beach neighborhood: Alki Beach neighborhood: Alki Beach neighborhood: Alki Beach neighborhood: The wind and weather was too rough for the Denny party, so most of them decided to set up again in Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square: Pioneer Square burned down, along with pretty much all of downtown, in the Great Seattle Fire in 1889. Seattle was booming at the time due to the tree industry, so the entire area was rebuilt quickly. The new buildings are above the old area, and there is a neat tour you can check the underground areas. Amtrak station: International District: International District: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard neighborhood: Ballard. you can go see the boats go up and down First Hill neighborhood: First Hill neighborhood: Capitol Hill neighborhood: Capitol Hill neighborhood: Capitol Hill neighborhood: Capitol Hill neighborhood: not sure wtf this is: Bainbridge Island ferry commuter coffee shop:

Poulsbo, Washington A Scandinavian themed little city in Kitsap county Washington. Along the water of a sheltered bay in Puget Sound (NW of Seattle.) Norwegian flags are displayed around town: A few of the numerous boats along the shore: Restaurant in a narrow alley: New houses being built up the hill, most of them all look like this. The population has gone up about 40% each decade recently. Now just over 9000: I think it is a little pavilion or stage along the waterfront: Viking statue: King Olav V visited about 37 years ago. They named a street after him: Leavenworth, Washington An old logging village that about 50 years ago transformed itself into a Bavarian themed town. Population currently about 2000. Located near the eastern edge of the Cascade mountains.

1950 Columbus had approximately 42 sq. miles. http://assets.columbus.gov/Development/planning/columbusgrowthmapseries.pdf shows a nice set of maps of that area, and anything after that has pretty much just been sprawly.

Of course Lake Erie is blue. Cuyahoga County Erie County Cuyahoga County Okay, I need you to build a proper transit system for Ohio. You promised. :-D

Providence, the capital of Rhode Island Tampa, FL

Yes. Pretty much everything after the point where I wrote 'Also, Kansas City' is Kansas City. There are many cities in Ohio with a street named Summit. I have been in Toledo, so technically I have come from Toledo , but not in the way you are probably thinking.

Albany, the capital of New York. Capitol: Large area next to the Capitol, full of tall unpleasant buildings wasting large areas of space: speaking of… ok, back considered dropping the exposure to like -4 on this next one, just so I wouldn't have to see it I should have spent more time in the residential areas instead of near these vertical ironing boards. Manchester, NH coffee cat approves

Worcester, Massachusetts The second largest city in New England. Worcester is full of places that automatically put milk and sugar in coffee, and it is nearly impossible to have them give you a coffee without that nonsense. In the spirit of this nonsense, I shall add some random other city to the middle of this thread: Kalamazoo, Michigan Boston, the capital of Massachusetts Massachusetts State House

Nice! Oh, but can't they do something about all those trees blocking the buildings? Other cities bury them underground so that they don't get in the way, maybe Savannah should try that. Also, ColDayMan thinks Toledo is America's most beautiful city.