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I thought it was going to stay all park, not get developed like it was in the movie Ready Player One.

Having a kid wasn't instant poverty/debt then.

^They did that at Miller-Kelton.

Also, driving on 71 between 670 and about Cooke is NOT fun.

I don't care if it stays or goes, just SOMETHING. Would make a nice mixed-use path even though those often suck if they aren't as wide as this.

Something needs to be done with that abandoned bridge and ramp. It's been 50 years since it closed.

Most other cities don't have the "all teams same colors" thing going on like Pittsburgh does. The Crew's yellow isn't as mustard as Pittsburgh.

People in 1999 weren't going to spend big money on an MLS stadium. That meant the land cost too. Downtown stadiums weren't fully sold on the public yet either. Would FedEx Field (2004) be put way out there today? It was a product of its time, especially in the Midwest.

Just seeing this picture makes me want to drunkenly fight a Scotsman, FFS At a friendly, even!

That's the tough part about measuring the success of economic development differences. It's quite hard to quantify directly due to self-reporting bias. Companies and executives say they did it for this reason and/or that reason but they never give the full story and even lie in an effort to change governmental behavior. There's a tremendous amount of variables involved. A lot of relocations and decisions to expand in X area are due to executive biases and company culture.

Night and weekend work is too available and undesirable. People don't like being removed from society over a few bucks. Also having to sleep all day rather than accomplish things.

Tennessee Elephant Hanging, smashing old locomotives together for entertainment (with spectator injuries and deaths), West Virginia coal mine riots, Prohibition starting, crooked President Harding -- the late 1910s/early '20s were nuts!

Every city, state, town has an economic development agency/office/person. Also regions have them. Counties too.

To make sure we stay the only total weirdos without rail transit.

At least some of the money spent at Walmart's stays in the community. Unlike sending all your money to Seattle and Silicon Valley where it artificially inflates the value of Zelda statues and leads to people spending $50 on $8 worth of Taco Bell delivery.

Jobs that would be Downtown in Cincinnati are in Dublin/Worthington/Westerville, Polaris and Easton here.

^rail transit

^Sounds like McDonald's will be back to all-day breakfast soon

Some examples are the amount of drainage required for highway projects, increased requirements regarding retention ponds, how close you can build a large structure to a waterway, how much and how far away a pond is considered impactful to a stream when you dam it. All things we've had to deal with at the farm or from learning about development and highway projects. I don't think the massive sewer pipe is for that. For one it's supposed to cut down on odors -- which are pollution.

Yeah that way the local economy isn't so unbalanced in favor of people who live in Dublin/Worthington/Westerville.

That's when they sell the shirts with the old blue pickup truck on them

And they did a massive expansion in NYC at the same time.

First thing decision makers from those cities are going to ask when they visit Columbus, "Ok, where do we get on the train?"

There's Chase, but it wasn't due to billboards and it was put in motion over 20 years ago. They didn't "move" per se but when they bought Bank One that was the impetus for expanding at Polaris. The main line in economic development is "Urging businesses to relocate to or expand" within the agency's assigned area.

^Sen. Robert Spectrum (R-Wanker Township)