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Sugar sugar sugar. I don't really like sugar that much so I notice how much sugar is being pushed on people. Walmart is just a total sugar festival and it's the dominant retailer in high poverty areas.

It is important that sort of whining over the loss of 3-5 street spaces gets muffled so that projects that the city needs can happen.

The new Six Sigma

You want to get up and move around during the day doing WFH. For the same money out in you-gotta-drive-everywhere land you get a whole house to move around in -- maybe you even have a gym and a pool.

They spent all that money on the thing only to see tons of buildings razed near it almost right away and the lots turned into surface parking.

I'd say the bottom was about 1982.

That strip mall has lots of space.

I didn't know NE Ohio drivers were such snowflakes. What specifically is it about them that prefers T-bones to fender benders? Literally every area has conservatives on the internet saying roundabouts won't work where they live then a year or two passes with them in place and people get used to them. They don't get nostalgic for rotting at the lights or 4-way stops that used to be there. Everyone weep for the traffic light lobby.

Lilac People

I think Varsity Inn did have two buildings. The one facing King and the one facing Olentangy.

Civil project cost inflation in the U.S. has remained much, much higher than regular inflation since the 1970s if not before. It is unlikely to subside any time soon under current conditions. Projects should start as early as possible to avoid it.

American homeowners are wasting more space than ever before The number of extra bedrooms — defined as a bedroom in excess of the number of people in the home, and even including one for an office — has reached a new high, according to a new report from Realtor.com. The seven-fold jump over the past 40 years comes as the number of people in any given household has declined. “If people value having extra space, then we didn’t overbuild during the McMansion era. But if homebuyers are simply tolerating these big homes because they’re what’s available, then perhaps we did overbuild a bit over the past few decades,” McLaughlin added. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/18/american-homeowners-are-wasting-more-space-than-ever-before.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us The article also states that houses actually stopped gaining bedrooms 10 years ago. So the state of only building sprawl seems to have died off. Building since 2013 has been more balanced.

Gee, I wonder how we wound up with a housing shortage

I saw something on here recently about decreased frequency. Either off-peak or even during peak. I can't find it now.

In Columbus we passed a sales tax-funded BRT plan in December. During the planning discussions we have emphasized avoiding "BRT Creep" over time where BRT loses key aspects of its operation such as kiosk fare collection, signal priority, high frequency (especially at peak), well-maintained stations, dedicated lanes etc. Indianapolis' system opened in 2019 and is already seeing BRT Creep. I've noticed forum users mentioning these kinds of issues (not all the ones I listed) with the Healthline but it is scattered around the forum. How has the Healthline changed from its intended situation since opening? A lot of the talk say in this thread is a little "If you know you know" -- which is fine except when looking for something specific from the outside.

That field has had a reputation for paying nothing until someone's 50s then it pays a ton. I don't know how accurate that is today though.

The lights at Hamilton and Williams are too close together. They were planning on moving the Williams traffic through the warehouses and having it meet Hamilton in front of Eastland Vocational but it hasn't happened yet.

Google puts that at where the Aldi is. Will it really be on the south side of the Sheetz where the huge mound of dirt is located? I don't see where else it could be with an address ending in an odd number (so not replacing the Frisch's). The huge mound of dirt is left over from the mini golf course that closed. I loved that complex when I was a kid. It also had go karts, a batting cage and an arcade.

I thought none of them could buy anything besides groceries because of Biden

That would look bad after a few years of '70s/'80s-style acid rain.

Yeah hopefully it lasts as about as long as the Amshack or the Bombay Bicycle Club building. "Well that building didn't last very long" is a real Dad Thing to Say, isn't it?

The wood frame construction is indeed much more likely to catch fire while the building is being built before all fire retardant measures are in place than with concrete and steel. But once the building is completed the chance of fire drops drastically. That's why building industry was allowed to go back to wood-frame after it being banned for decades. The industry really ran with it as soon as the regulation was lifted, that's for sure.

More of these types of judgments please.

Old farmhouses in unmaintained condition on giant lots are indeed a dime a dozen in Ohio.

nobody take this the wrong way but we're sitting here in Ohio like the "good guy" complaining about unstable "bad boy" Miami getting all the action 😉