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Was anyone ready for that? It was probably like taking someone to see Top Fuel dragsters for the first time without telling them what is going to happen.

I remember they tore down the store like the week I moved to town so about October 1 2006.

That lot across Highland actually has something on it now?

Yes, even more '50s! Even with no dining room, it's still the '50s!

^Yeah, like when going to the library and all the music DVDs there are '70s acts live in 2007 and I'm like, "Le sigh"

Seems like the people commenting on the article do. NKY does have an anti-gentrification scene. Thing is, a lot of times things like trailer parks are so far away from areas people are gentrifying that it's not on people's radar. Most trailer parks are located in the most unwalkable areas possible so mandatory car use is forced on the poor. That unwalkabilty (and little to no potential for it) means gentrifies aren't interested. Trailer parks actually end up being horribly expensive to live in between lot rent, trailer rent, expensive utilities due to lack of insulation and tendency to be located away from natural gas service, mandatory car use for anything, location far away from businesses and gasoline.

It does look pretty steep inside, like Cleveland Browns Stadium or the top bowl at Nationwide. I freaked out a bit the last time I was in the top bowl at Nationwide even though Roger Waters hadn't even started yet.

That goes on (in some form) in DT Columbus a lot as well, even with class B and C space.

I see what you mean. Rather than late-stage gentrification it is post full gentrification. The area is treated like a mall during the '70s-'90s or the area near a new Wal-Mart today.

The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings Data from city restaurant inspections, rental prices, and census figures, show how restaurants and gentrification are interconnected As white-collar jobs and tech businesses attract more young American professionals to cities, these gentrification trends show up in data from around the country. In San Francisco’s Chinatown, for example, banquet halls that have existed in the community for decades are competing with new Michelin-starred halls. In the Bushwick area of New York City, the four or so dive bars that existed in the once predominantly working-class Latinx neighborhood a decade ago now sit alongside dozens of swanky new watering holes catering to the influx of young urban professionals. Portland’s Black population is being pushed to the city’s outskirts, farther and farther away from the city’s buzziest new restaurants. To make matters worse, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted many small businesses to close for good. Reports show that 60 percent of restaurants that have closed since the onset of the pandemic have shuttered permanently. There is consequently a growing fear that large chains and bigger businesses will capitalize on failing small businesses and buy up empty spaces in working-class neighborhoods if stakeholders don’t act soon. This could only speed up the changes happening across American cities. In order to explore the relationship between restaurants and gentrification, Eater requested restaurant health inspection data from several U.S. cities, using the data to estimate how many restaurants are in each city and where they’re located. https://www.eater.com/21194965/gentrification-signs-restaurants-cafes-bars-nyc-chicago-san-francisco-portland Now here's what was new to me -- we here on urban sites tend to think that new restaurants are a sign of gentrification, but as gentrification enters its late stages as seen in NYC and SF the number of restaurants actually goes down: The median price of a home in San Francisco is $1.3 million today, compared to $650,000 in 2000, according to Zillow data. Apartments there are also charging some of the highest rent and housing prices on earth. As a result, the employees who staff businesses can’t afford to live in the city, while smaller enterprises have closed because they couldn’t make the rent. This is especially true for restaurants: Based on health inspection data, restaurants in the city have decreased by 44 percent in the last five years. COVID-19 is not going to help this at all. Universal Couchlock + food delivery "tech" scams aren't either.

My garage still has one of those eagles. I don't know when their day was. The '60s maybe? Or maybe it was a Bicentennial thing too.

Yeah unfortunately those school rankings can be pretty harsh if there are even a small amount of non-Asian-American minorities around which I think is racist. Like how Bexley gets dinged for that even though the schools are perfectly fine. That's one reason I don't like a lot of school rankings so much. To me one of the most important things with schools is the networking. For example zero of my high school friends that I am still close with (and their parents) have a 4-year degree and I'm sure that has affected me professionally. Sometimes a larger school system that's not 100% blue-collar is better for that as compared to some tiny one that's all rich kids only.

And some suburban schools participate in the Win-Win agreement where you technically live in Columbus city limits but attend the suburban school closest to it. Grandview and UA do not so you must be actually in those cities rather than just their zip code. Ones that do participate in Win-Win are Canal Winchester, Groveport Madison, Hamilton Local, Gahanna-Jefferson, New Albany-Plain, Westerville, Dublin, Hilliard and South-Western. Sometimes you can save a little by living in the Columbus city limits while living in a qualifying Columbus property rather than the actual suburb. A lot to this!

Government picking winners and losers through subsidies from other forms of taxation rather than free market paying the full share for the use of infrastructure.

And that can happen at ANY time. Or they just make up some rule to de-monetize you, like you're too popular with people that have adblockers, or too many protected corporate logos showed up in your stuff.

^Because The Right constantly pushes the income tax narrative but stays mute on "hidden" taxes since they vary so much per location and are more likely to be regressive.

Re: teardowns. Do keep in mind that it is somewhat common in both UA and Bexely for older houses to be bulldozed for McMansion-type housing. Diversity is not so good in UA as you perceived. Most of the upper-middle class and higher minorities live in other 'burbs (or Berwick). Grandview Heights is pretty much all white folks as well. It's not so much that the prewar housing in Grandview needs much work (could have old furnaces and no central air though), it's more like you'll have the exact same house you see all over Portsmouth or Ironton for $40K but in Grandview it's $300K. But if you want something larger like seen after the war that's 2000+ square feet that's when it doubles to like $600K.

Which high school do Beechwold/Clintonville residents attend? I thought it was Whetstone. As far as schools go if you're referring to Worthington schools as merely decent than you might be a tough customer for public schools. Be aware that Grandview Heights can be very expensive if you want to live in a house built after 1940. That tough-to-deal-with 1910-1930s housing proliferates Grandview just as much as the rest of Ohio and prices reflect that.

Spirit of '76! Bonus points for a collection of 1976 election memorabilia in the corner

Oh and this reminds me of the Mid-Century Modern Chair Debacle at my mother's house that happened a couple weeks ago. Mom needed a simple chair that didn't need to match anything to temporarily use in the kitchen. So she winds up at some vintage store in Circleville just looking around and picks up a red Mid-Century Modern chair that looks straight out of a Leavittown or Lustron kitchen. It was $70. No she didn't just get a worthless one for $10 from the '80s or '90s at the thrift store. She literally doesn't know that the '80s/'90s stuff is so worthless and the furniture she grew up with (she's 78) is now expensive. Plus $70 doesn't even sound out of line to her for a chair anyway since she is used to all furniture being worth money. She also has no idea that the late 1800s/early 1900s stuff in her living room is now worthless too. OK, now on to the Mute Debate.

In my opinion if we lose a few music venues due to the pandemic it's actually a good thing for live music overall (obviously bad for the venue owners and the people who work there). There were far too many shows scheduled per week with nobody at them ever since Couchlock began kicking in around Y2K. Now with Couchlock turbocharged into Universal Couchlock by 2010 by limitless in-home entertainment options and DUIs For Everyone the number of venues and shows booked remained almost the same as it was in the '90s when you had to leave your home for entertainment that wasn't sitcoms! Each show needs more people at them post-pandemic.

Plus, with those sharp corners and edges you get to be a part of a Fail compilation on MTV or TBD by simply bumping into your furniture if someone is taping you

Quarter-inch drywall over bad plaster

^And what gets worse with that as time goes on the materials and skills to do anything interesting become less and less available. Pretty soon everybody gets stuck with painted drywall and trim even if they don't want it because those are the only things that exist. You have to desperately look for a house that hasn't been touched for longer and longer periods of time which gets tougher every day. People that get houses like that on accident can't leave well enough alone and try to make it look like it was built yesterday.

There does seem to be more friction between these folks and everyone else in the Cleveland area than the rest of the state.