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GCrites

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  1. At first it's just a bunch of restaurants, bars and hair salons opening up but with so many people just buying everything on Amazon it's tougher to get a wide variety of businesses to open in these fresh developments right away. If you can get a few stores to take a chance on an area it can lead to more stores and not so much Amazon ovedependence.
  2. Another good one! Shouldn't be long until the next one and we are working on networking with more local interest groups to make future meets bigger and better!
  3. Ohio has both high ADHD and blue-collar job rates. Traditional ADHD treatments revolve around methamphetamines but those are often unsuitable for older patients due to their effects on blood pressure. Newer treatments in development revolve around nicotine (obviously not in cigarette or vape forms) and it could be why Ohio's cigarette use rate is so high since nicotine may well soothe ADHD symptoms. I haven't examined marijuana's effects on ADHD so there could be some hope there for diagnosed individuals when rec becomes fully available. Of course the other classic states for bad stuff like KY, WV, AL, MS and LA are worse in ADHD diagnoses but our smoking rate has to be higher than at least two of them.
  4. The old abandoned bridge to Scioto Audubon did as well including on Family Guy. I don't really watch that show anymore after it stopped being all Transformers jokes though
  5. With how much "urban renewal" took place east of 4th you wonder what land values are like. At some point the surface lots and single story buildings full of car exhausts would get redeveloped. Such a shame that a massive neighborhood was lost.
  6. We're starting to see 4 stories become more standard in the suburbs (or in areas that would be suburbs in another city) and not just in the Old Towns.
  7. Harder to promote this stuff without CD 92.9 on the air. When you lose things like popular local radio stations and print alt weeklies that easy to access one stop shop for promoting events vaporizes and couchlock ensues. Almost like the ones who shut it down gets a kickback from Netflix.
  8. I'm not surprised Canada's per square foot costs are higher than the US. We have all these areas that had housing built all over the place then the good jobs disappeared. So there's a lot of discount real estate around with the caveat that the only jobs available are as a roofer or working in the ER.
  9. Now that is handsome. I don't mind Crosley as much, it's more that it doesn't seem very flexible on the inside.
  10. Left-side ramps still aren't 100% off the table in Ohio unlike other states.
  11. Ooooh, you could add temperature to the sensations. You walk out of the room where the special light turns everything black and white then go in some room that painted to look hot as hell but is zero degrees inside
  12. If they would have made it further along perhaps it would be more visible like the unfinished tower at P.TL. that has been there since 1988
  13. The housing crisis in Columbus has only gotten worse in those four years.
  14. Steiner was really big on the residential component of Liberty Center out in West Chester. In fact it was the only part that met and exceeded expectations.
  15. Strangely, now Ohio has a few Piggly Wigglys, partially because Kroger closed their Wellston store. I suppose they can work with smaller format stores than Kroger. A couple look like they were Krogers not too long ago. West Virginia used to be smattered with small-format Krogers in the 2000s with some being only 10,000 sq ft. They have closed tons of those since.
  16. What kind of competition do these Jewel locations have in that market? If it's little to none, there's your answer and is another reason why we shouldn't have gone so overboard with mergers starting in the '90s.
  17. Sorta like when some nut drives his Built Ford Tough F-150 through the front of a semi-rural Kroger.
  18. The housing shortage is equally bad all over town. It's a shame the west side got so run down because we really need that housing. And we are adding far more blue-collar jobs than white-collar so we need to keep that in mind.
  19. Livingston through Driving Park was our Art Deco district, even if this building was a little late to the party.
  20. OK, right now it totally looks like an abandoned amusement park
  21. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in General Transportation
    All of these features vary significantly by manufacturer and even by model. Some of them really suck whereas others are quite good. So if someone says the car "has" one of them (as Consumer Reports does) without telling you the quality of the feature they're not really telling you anything. It doesn't "have" it if people turn it off for not functioning as advertised.
  22. That's an interesting statement. Are the practices of the construction companies in the two cities different? Do the Columbus firms prefer cranes on 5 over 1s? I've heard far stranger things in construction.