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Maybe they don't want to wait for Columbus' new zoning changes to go through. UA has already adopted non-crap zoning for non-SFH-only areas.

Before the 1990s skilled labor was plentiful. But go further back from that unskilled labor was heavily oversupplied. People think that everybody from the '50s to the '90s had a good job and that could be true if you weren't unskilled. Unskilled labor was a massive part of the economy yet it had an even more abundant supply. So they were getting laid off constantly and were always seeking work. Think Grapes of Wrath. Eventually more of construction work went to skilled laborers and of course heavy equipment/power tools. Unskilled labor (which now is undersupplied) shifted more to things like restaurants and warehouses. All these people hammering people to throw their degrees in the trash and go into the skilled trades always leave out that even they were constantly laying people off until about 1995 and that's why everybody got told to go to college. Nowadays the skilled trades know to not just be "work" but be "jobs" and offices have forgotten it -- which always happens with oversupply. Offices are going to be whining just as bad as the trades when they can't make everybody go though 13 interviews and they just have to take whoever walks in off the street like they used to until the dot com crash and blue-collar jobs do now. That's going to take a while though.

Also the fact that UA and Columbus are collaborating on this is important since when cities and suburbs don't communicate you can get a nightmare scenario like at 33 and Gender Roads on the border between Canal Winchester and Columbus where tons of residential is on one side of the freeway and most of the businesses are on the other side. So people without access to a car have to walk over the freeway in dirt and gravel to patronize and/or work at the businesses. And that's after possibly walking over a mile just to get to the interchange.

T.J. Maxx vacating the strip mall on the SW corner was a big blow. I remember the strip mall was still hoppin' when T.J. Maxx was there.

Market-Mohawk alone is colossal and nearly empty.

While I am not the target market for this product due to my income level it does suck to have a car as a hobby without having to live in an unwalkable Applebee's hell with only senior citizens as neighbors. Seems like the market only supplies no-garage Prewar, controlled mass garages where you're not allowed to work on your own car and squiggly subdivisions where you can have a garage but the nearest business of any type is two miles away.

You have to drive so fast through there that it's hard to patronize the businesses. Frank Road is really bad about that too. Four lane roads flip the "Interstate Switch" in people's brains in a way they didn't 25 years ago. They immediately adopt the Interstate mindset the minute that additional lane opens up.

I-70 was started about 10 years afterwards so this flyer is about rehabs in the neighborhood rather than being the common car-centric propaganda of the time.

Yeah Cleveland can act as a stand-in for NYC with a little CGI. I was there when they were filming Avengers.

I have a flyer from the late '50s promoting the gentrification of German Village. My grandparents picked it up at some point while visiting town I suppose. It's like the kind you used to pick up from a rack at motels.

I seem to recall from reading history materials that the flat empty lot east of there that they just paved was actually a rugged ravine peppered with small dwellings 100+ years ago. Then apartments went in if I remember right.

We really got behind on pools considering the city's growth.

Hopefully it flakes out like other Geminis

After a full month of Zeptember. Double the Zeppelin double the fun.

Nashville also has a lot of non-primary residences and full-time Air BnBs.

I can see where suburban Boomer and Silent Gen location decisions would make going to the office unappealing to other generations. There's a picture of Downtown Columbus from the mid 50s right after they shut down the streetcars but before they tore everything down for parking. Cars are so jammed into any open space that they would have had to do directed automotive Tetris every evening to empty the lots.

Still too many poverty pockets near Downtown for TJs. Today's retailers are incredibly strict about income in the primary and secondary Service Areas because of Amazon.

With jobs that have a coding requirement (which seems to be every non-sales white collar job these days) a lot of people have ADHD (me) or are on the spectrum (or even both). The wrong kind of interruption can be maddening and breaks need to happen when they happen rather than on a set schedule. That's why tech firms are notorious for having things like game rooms and running tracks. Also food on site. People with blue-collar jobs a lot of times don't get this because their brains don't work like that.

Manholes are potholes too around there.

Just saying "500 feet from a school or church" doesn't work in a lot of towns because the schools and churches got moved out of town onto the state or U.S. Route bypasses all by themselves with no commercial structures nearby. Score one for zero walkability I guess.

Why are Dayton 'burbs so against dispensaries as compared to everyone else? And Marysville -- do the Japanese have that much pull there? Considering Japan's hardline stance on weed.

We have so much available land that 4-5 story projects are going to get though the filter no matter what.

Mmmmm, gas station chicken to go!

I can only imagine what kind of parlays the people on the closed-circuit TV in there are going to be trying to talk people into.

100 years ago the US didn't have many parks in cities either. People hung out in -- not making this up -- cemeteries instead.