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Wonder what Germany's deal is.

Arena District Thread

During 3C talks, it was assumed that the Convention Center would be used as the train station since it was built to accommodate an easy conversion to a train station. Knock down a wall in the Convention Center next to the tracks that was already designed for this purpose, add a small siding and use the current amenities of the food court and mini mall inside for train station purposes. I still prefer this to a new station for cost reasons and to make the Convention Center amenities activated more often. Note that the parcel above was a roundhouse and small train station in the past used by the Big Four RR. The trains would stop at Grandview, Franklinton, the parcel above and Union Station in addition to the Leonard Avenue one and also one at the airport. http://www.columbusrailroads.com/new/?menu=05Steam_Railroads&submenu=33Stations_%26_Depots

I just looked at some renderings and it doesn't look that bad but definitely not as nice as the Ohio ones. Lot of effort put into value engineering on the Austin one. More of an effort to save money with minimal material use, but of course their weather is better than ours.

So Austin's stadium is going to be pretty basic?

It will be interesting to see how well the stadium can be seen from 315 with the tree cover and the fact that it's not super tall.

The FC Cincinnati stadium is in the West End, not OTR, Columbusites.

It hasn't been announced in the media (to my knowledge) how much money Groveport is getting from the stimulus bill, but whatever it is it will probably make than councilman's point moot. Groveport is quite down on restaurants and retail as compared to Canal and even Lithopolis. Sure we have supermarkets but that means we don't have anything else. And you can't really count anything north of 33 since that's in Columbus, you have to drive 2+ miles to it and the restaurants are all chains. We only have the one bar and it's Harley. Even so, it's still possible that these spaces will fill with insurance offices, dog groomers, chiropractors and more pizza.

They were a de facto community center in Flytown.

The internet makes these people noisier.

They're not stock photos, they're pictures of a "cool, young with it guy" that were cropped out of the photos from a popular event. So they stole the individual's likeness.

Re 145 S. Front: I don't know if you want a really tall building that close to the river. Sure Chicago does it because they have to, but isn't it tougher to stabilize that close to water?

And larger vehicles aren't even safer due to their inferior handling and braking plus their propensity to leave the road and turn over.

I know it's off topic, but since it's in the picture, why is our MLK Blvd. less than 1/4 mile long? It has to be one of the shortest MLKs around. You barely even know you're on it then you blink and it's already over.

Interesting that the a city largely built in the 50s and 60s embraces density whereas a lot of talented neighborhoods built on density in the bigger city fight it.

Right, but is there one seldom-used thread and one busier thread? Or maybe it goes back and forth.

Are there two threads for this topic? I thought there had been posts in this thread more recently than early 2020. Hopefully.

Was this affected by the uncertainty around timing of the Biden Administration transit money?

Also Naples FL for both Columbus and Cincinnati.

Na-bis-coooo🎺

Is Hilton Head a really "Cleveland" place to vacation, like Cincinnatians and Destin, Florida and Columbusites and Sarasota/Bradenton/Palmetto Florida? Or how people from Columbus go to Lake Cumberland but people from Cincinnati go to Dale Hollow. Or is it someplace(s) else?

The word "iconic" has become almost meaningless. When people say things like "the iconic Oreo packaging" you know it's over.

Bill Swad was a big wheel in this part of town. He owned the Chevrolet dealership on Hamilton, had a church in the southern part of Gahanna west of Hamilton and owned the apartments that are now in bad shape. It looks like that after he sold them that the apartments were sold as condos for cheap then poorly maintained.

This is at the edge of Whitehall, not the center as the article states. So the old Bill Swad Apartment Complex comes down plus the Golf Dome which I think was used more for R/C airplanes than for golf before it got damaged by a storm.

Yeah that's too far -- like watching snuff porn. Whereas WLW is more like wet-and-messy fetish.