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There's also the church on Long St and N 6th that used to be Faith Mission but is now the clubhouse and leasing office for the Normandy apartments.

This is great, I hope they're able to implement a lot of these items. Living on the west side, I've been hopeful they'd find a way to link the Heritage Rail Trail to the other trails inside 270. They recently installed protected bike lane bollards and marked crossings on roadways like Hilliard-Rome and Roberts, which is a nice improvement as long as they can keep up with replacing the posts as quickly as they get taken out by Columbus drivers.

If someone has more time than I do today, here's the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0ABy55gs0

Skimmed through the YouTube recording of the meeting this morning and felt like the updated visuals were a bit of a letdown. Watching them flip from the previously-approved to new versions felt like someone hitting the "make it more generic" button for each.

As much as I enjoy the massing of 80 above ground level and loathe entirely that of the Gilbert, I agree with your point about street-level engagement and hope that the Gilbert will be better. Architecturally, it was doomed the moment they decided to "do Brutalism" with metal panels.

New guardrails are going in along the elevated park above N Fourth St. Some masonry restoration underway at the Columbus Club in the background.

Lots of facade work underway this afternoon as The Corrugated Cube continues to wrap up the exterior.

Having watched the amount of effort it took to restore/rescue the facade of the building at 4th and Long, I'd say it barely survived. I wonder if the developer knew what they were signing up for with that process. I'm just glad they followed through since it's so much better now.

In the construction plans I've seen, the tenant space has grown toward the fire command room to capture more of the facade and the parking has pulled back to the right.

That's exactly what is going in. The streetfront will have the residential lobby and a shallow tenant space for a restaurant or similar.

Agreed. I just drove past and think we're likely due for a tower crane jump soon too.

It was in the September 2021 Downtown Commission package.

I believe they'll be a perforated metal mesh set within a window-like frame with mullions.

Lame. I'm glad to at least see Moody Nolan involved.

It is. This was a study done by NBBJ with Hackman Capital back during the pandemic that apparently didn't pan out. Really disappointing to see this now that the building is gone. Here's a link to the full AIA Columbus Design Award-winning submission

It's also integrating into an existing community and context, versus LDC/Astor Park trying to create that neighborhood from scratch. Citypark stadium in STL does a good job of integrating into the existing neighborhood.

100% agreed. This seems fitting to the developer, but not to the location.

A Hyatt Studios hotel seems much more aligned to this developer team/more realistic than their original note of an "upscale lifestyle brand." It's essentially a step below a Hyatt House.

That's right, thank you both for the reminder! I forgot the Zone In effort was separate from downtown.

It will hopefully feel less out of place when the hotel/garage portion of University Square is built across the street. I've heard that project is starting to get some momentum again.

Will be interesting to see what impact Zone In has on this over the next 5-10 years.

Yep, 2017

I agree, though I'm interested to see how the design develops to ensure this isn't only designed from the High Street side, leaving three subpar facades on the N/E/S sides.

I'm just here for those downspouts.

Agreed. I find it a bit comical they're referencing the Moxy facade where they are showing the white corrugated metal panels, when the Moxy has much nicer metal panels that what's being proposed here.