GCrites

I believe you need to switch to quarterly once your gross revenue from business purposes reaches $150k. Income from your day job doesn't count.

Who needs facts when there are beliefs?

But I do get hungry an hour after eating Wendy's unlike the other fast food joints. So they might get in trouble for that.

I always like talking about "going to the Hoover Dam this afternoon" to people who aren't from around here.

I've never worked in DT Cincinnati. In other Northern cities I've seen a lot of 30 minute ones. I have noticed that Cincinnati does take it a little easier as compared to other Northern cities.

Anything heavily subsidized will be overconsumed.

Not without a liquor license! Talk about a paradigm shift.

Hmm yes, there's all these 900 sq. ft. houses in Oakley that had full families in them back in the Milacron days but now have a single person or couple in them.

All the Chili's locations in Columbus closed except for the one at the airport. I don't know if it was just one franchisee that waved the white flag or if Chili's is in a defensive position.

I was going to say the same thing. The high % of development happening within Columbus City proper could easily (and likely) mean greenfield development all the same. There is a lot of suburban/rural land within their city boundaries. Eh, not as much as you'd think. Some growth at Easton and Polaris but not really much else in sprawl-type areas within the city limits. Yeah we still have cornfields inside the city limits but they're not seeing much development. Those areas saw their big growth in the last half of the 20C. In fact much of it is losing population such as Linden, the Continent and the Far West Side. They bulldozed almost all of Wonderland and that massive complex on the Far/Middle East Side by the airport off Stelzer Rd.

Personally I don't think it's worth the effort to expand the convention center by less than 10%.

My line of work is, by nature, suburban/semi-rural. I tried an urban location and it didn't work. Others in my industry report identical results.

People will throw themselves onto the knife to be in cities like that. Sometimes they can't make it there since things are so competitive and return really PO'ed. It wouldn't be that hard to make our cities like that. It's mostly politicians and insecure suburbanites stopping it really.

State shows generally get the most attendees when they are located in the center of states. Industry statistics prove it; well, at least in states with fairly even population distribution such as Ohio.

Columbus will still get the state shows. And there are a lot of them.

Wow, I've never received or given interest on a security deposit before.

Uh oh that might mean good old "Hungover 32", closely related to "Hungover 33" and "Hungover 77".

re: Campus Gateway

Got guys to cover for me so I'm almost 100% yes now.

Columbus still has 5,000 of these -- down from 15,000.

How many people get to leave for lunch with today's 30 minute lunches? You're lucky to get your lame Tupperware thing full of mayo-covered cold stuff open and choked down in time; let alone leave the premises.

I bet people who live in San Diego don't know anything about these weather lines and weather radios. I bet they don't even know the names of their local meteorologists. Whereas here this stuff controls every aspect of our lives.

Fact is to get suburban-grade retail back in the urban cores, the dwellers are going to have to change their spending habits to make them more like the suburban ones. First, money can't all go to bars, going out to eat (this is a big one) and entertainment. BUY STUFF. Second, be willing to buy normal things, not just highly unusual, hard-to-get items. And buy a lot of normal things. BUY STUFF. Don't plan out every purchase, call a bunch of stores and spend a ton of time on the internet before buying anything. BUY STUFF. In fact, stop spending so much time on the internet. Cut back on the Netflix. Way back. BUY STUFF. Also, have kids in the city. Nothing makes you spend money in the physical world than kids. No downloading diapers or streaming formula. And kids love to go shopping... shopping shopping, not quickie laser-focused errands with a time crunch. BUY STUFF. Don't be that Millennial that retailers hate who only owns a laptop, bike, TV, online game console, bed and couch but averages $15 per meal and $6 a beer. BUY STUFF.

John Petric? I see him at the grocery store from time to time.