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The worse small business does the better The Market does. When you shift money from being spent in people's own community to money going to the internet it makes "tech" rise.

I remember walking into Sander Dining a time or two and thinking something was very weird about one side of the building. I just chalked it up to "general bad college campus remodel butchering" like you see at a lot of schools. I had no idea about Sander Hall.

It would just be so tough being right next to the Giant Eagle like that; less than 200 feet away. You used to see a Big Bear close to a Kroger from time to time (like at Great Southern) but it really makes customers act rotten for one thing. A buddy of mine worked at the Great Southern Big Bear while I was a few doors down at Kroger. We were able to swap stories about the same customers raising hell in both stores during one shopping trip. "This is 19 cents cheaper at Big Bear! I don't even see why I come here!!!!" It was every day with those kind of skinflints.

Undo Mallory

In the '90s, Columbus downtown workers had 45-60 minute lunches. If they got fast food (which Downtown still had at the time) or brought something from home, they could use their spare time to hang out on the Statehouse lawn. People brought blankets and chilled, had picnics, played softball and kickball, read and various other things. By the late '90s fully organized kickball leagues had formed. Some people, especially whip-cracking "productivity experts" would see this and raise all hell assuming the Statehouse gatherers were all government employees (they weren't; the private sector was very well-represented). A stop needed put to this! Under fire, Columbus Downtown employers both public and private adopted 30-minute lunches around The Year 2000. Now only legislators could bolt for lunch and everyone else was stuck brown-bagging it. That's why you look at our CBD and see that it is nearly barren of restaurants and other services to serve the lunch break population that normal CBDs have. Lunch places make it a year or less. I think they've given up. Some companies even put the 30-minute lunch in all of their job descriptions since it's such a turnoff and they want to be upfront about things.

Do not "hide" retail.

Too much novelty and whimsicality. Not enough garage doors.

The Uncool Crescent provides a refuge from inflated housing prices in Seabus but you've got to be willing put up with its lack of amenities. It's under-retailed, the bars aren't "cool" and a lot of people don't like the schools. Divide between Columbus' wealthy and poor neighborhoods growing, OSU study finds A new analysis of nearly 500,000 Columbus-area home sales over 15 years shows that the gap between the city's richest and poorest neighborhoods is getting bigger. Ohio State University researchers found that between 2000 and 2015, traditionally high-priced neighborhoods including Upper Arlington, Grandview Heights and Bexley became even more prosperous, as measured by mean housing values. But neighborhoods including Linden and Franklinton lost value in their housing prices.

^That is SAD! considering the hustle and bustle of the location in the evenings.

Just gotta make sure the schedule doesn't fill up with Washington States and BYUs like it did in '80s. I'd still rather see BG and Kent rather than them.

I am sympathetic to what you are saying regarding the Community Council and your disappointment in the level of engagement you are seeing. When I lived on Alicemont, my landlord was Jon Doucleff who along with his wife were very active on the Council (I know one of them was President or however that is structured) before they moved to Mt. Lookout or Mt. Washington -- can't remember which right now. It's not your fault; the neighborhood is big with the post-college crowd who are notoriousl for being strapped for time and often apathetic toward local politics. At least it's not like here in Columbus where almost the entire city is apathetic about local politics and can't name any City Council members. The reason that so few of these projects include single-family is that once developers add a single-family component the banks lock up and won't fund the project. Most developers would want to add single-family since they get their money back NOW when it sells. In the same way that we here at UO become frustrated when not enough mixed-use gets built due to banks rejecting the retail component (unless they are able to get a long-term pre-sign on a taproom, '50s diner or farm-to-table restaurant or whatever) the banks control what residential gets built. UO users, apathy, lack of public sector involvement are not what keeps owner-occupied from being added to the project. And unfortunately even at the Mayor's Office or even state level it is tough to control what the banks want to see and why the federal government has to get involved with affordable housing. Are Oakley renters really that bad? I don't think so. The advantages of neighborhoods full of owner-occupied often has to do with so many homeowners being retirees since they have the time for all these extracurricular activities. But that can lead to a lack of variety in the businesses that are located in the vicinity. This is how Oakley south of Madison was in the '80s and '90s with north of Madison being the Slammer's crowd.

People need to remember that banks aren't lending to builders for nearly anything that has to be bought rather than rented. This includes both condos and single-family detached. Basically only way to get single family built in today's lending environment is for the future owner to get it financed as an individual. So demanding any new development be only for owner occupation is a de facto demand for no development until the lending environment changes -- which may not happen for quite a while.

It like the Old Town part of the original COSI!

No jokes around this guy

Playgrounds at this point are so safe and balless that kids have more chance of hurting themselves on the gazebo

^Something to replace the convention space lost when the old Vets was torn down. I realize the old Vets' facilities weren't super great (especially the part with the low ceilings) but it was a nice thing to have even after the GCCC went up.

I bet the people at U.S. Playing Card could teach the people who make Magic cards a thing or two about not being a Two-Sigma industry.

^Well at least your arguments bolster the article's position -- in ways the author didn't think of.

Why Do Food Delivery Companies Lose Money? Delivery via smartphone is one of those venture-funded sectors where business executives appear to have taken seriously the old joke about “losing money on every transaction but making it up on volume.” Normal rules of capitalism about maximizing profits do not apply. This has led to a strange situation where restaurants feel squeezed by the fees charged by delivery services (when, unlike Roy’s friend, they participate voluntarily on a delivery platform) and yet the delivery services themselves manage to keep losing money. Why is this even happening? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/why-do-food-delivery-companies-lose-money.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab Article also has rideshare discussion Just as crooked as the Sugar Trust, the railroad barons and 1800s coal mine owners -- but people like them. Well people back then liked sugar, trains and coal too.

Yes, that's it. Although I don't hang out in the comments section, I did encounter him back when CU had a forum.

^ Jman... where do I remember that name from?

There's enough cities that size in Ohio alone to make the list twice as long

Up 2.3% per year on average since 2014 per IBIS. I want numbers going back to 2000 though since that seems like around the time people didn't look down on the place as being only for hippies or people on the dole. https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-reports/thrift-stores-industry/ "Both for-profit and nonprofit thrifts are riding an extraordinary change in Americans’ shopping habits. From the beginning of the Great Recession in late 2007 until midway through this year, sales at thrift shops and consignment shops increased by 50 percent. Meanwhile, discount department store revenues fell by half and traditional department stores lost one-quarter of their sales, according to the U.S. Census Bureau." - 2015 article https://www.invw.org/2015/10/28/thrift-store-industry-thrives-with-its-do-good-veneer/

"Carry forward"

Another rendering, another Camaro in the parking lot