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Good news! With Downtown apartment occupancy at 95% but an oversupply of empty condos, these owners have put together a plan that should result in a much easier-to-obtain revenue stream.

^Masters of the Universe Club? Sounds like fun! "By the power of Grayskull, I empower thee to run the economy into the ground."

The USA of 1950-1999 is gone forever.

You watch the Wire to Wire VHS tape and you can already see the rivers of booze flowing as they get the trophy in the locker room.

With all due respect Kieth, I think yuppies do frequent liquor stores.

I don't know about that. Some of these "leaders" might not mind a throne of dirt.

This is a typical problem with a lot of "new" retail development outside the Outerbelt, and sometimes inside it as well. Ridiculous rents for little foot traffic are especially epidemic in the Gahanna and New Albany areas. For one, property tax assessments are quite high, and the actual tax rates themselves are also elevated. While the area where Creekside is located is walkable, the surrounding areas are car dependent which means people speed past the development without knowing it exists. Looks like they also did what I call the "condo overreach" for lack of a better term. What it means is that they went with condos instead of apartments and can't sell them due to price, tight credit or that people are willing to rent but not buy there. Of course, in the outer 'burbs, neighbors get bent out of shape when they find out that apartments are being built and will fight the construction of them. What do those people want? $2000/month apartments that are full of well-off individuals living and spending money in your neighborhood or a foreclosed, 25% occupied building that might wind up like The Continent?

Columbus was pretty legendary for its retro video game stores even before I started one.

From my counter, I can watch gas prices at the Kroger station across the street. $2.99 to $3.39 since Monday for 87.

Lazarus is in the bottom pic. I have no idea if the building in the top picture or the Lazarus are planning changes to their exteriors.

It goes over more smoothly when officers are not replaced when they retire instead of laying off people. I bet a filthy park leads to more crime than losing the 25th officer ready to respond to a shooting. The justice system and our every man for himself society lead to more problems than additional officers can fix.

Braves fans are spread all over the South; they were the only team in the entire region and basically still are if you exclude Florida. It's harder for their fans in Mississippi and Charleston SC to make it to games. But of course, today's Southerners are more likely to dine and drink right off the off-ramp at an Applebee's or something before or after the game rather than near the ballpark.

Town's alternate spelling reminds me more of mouthwash than the Fatherland.

Haw, that kind of reminds me of when city slickers would bring a semi full of gambling equipment to Hazzard County and drive around with people gambling in the back. The gambling train is actually a concept that could turn a profit, though if it happened in Ohio, the current leadership would tell us that we had to do the semi thing.

Motorcycles and scooters are a nice middle ground between cars and bicycles for urban sightseeing. In the States, motorcyclists/scooter riders are frowned upon for antisocial riding in cities, so you don't have to feel like some hellion you've seen in Madrid or Paris.

Republicans don't have to be against rail. It's just that the ones that are against it have nasty mouths on them and oppose it with religiosity.

European roads have a much higher standard of materials and workmanship than ours. In fact, we can't even get their materials here (the people who build race courses here would love to get ahold of materials used on European highways, but even our track owners can't despite their willingness to spend) and their design standards, such as base thickness, are completely different than ours. They don't have to repave their roads after seven years like we do. Europe also doesn't have as good of a freight rail system as us, so more of their freight, percentage-wise, has to end up on roads. Mexico doesn't worry too much about highway safety and never has. Besides, most of their well-maintained and paved roads are tolled, so the road owners just raise the tolls if the roads are getting too beat up by freight traffic.

Ideally, we'd be able to realign people's work places with their homes. How many people who live in the core curse their drive out to the suburbs, while those living in a 'burb curse their drive downtown? Let's say that there are roughly equal positions held by people forced to commute simply because of the way the stars aligned (personal network, job availability timing) in both an office park and a downtown office building. The downtowner took the job location that the suburbanite wanted and vice versa. If fuel prices were higher, companies would understand reluctance to commute. Jobs and housing would naturally move closer to each other.

In what ways is US Bank arena deficient? I figure handicap access and loading docks, but in what other ways? I've been to it and other arenas plenty of times, and they mostly seem the same to me.

I avoid drive-through at all costs.

I'm sure a pic of any IHOP will do. Great shots of the 23 corridor.

Bar/club chains don't seem to last that long. Did Cincinnati ever have a Banana Joe's? Columbus, Cleveland and Huntington, WV had 'em... I think Lexington had one too.

If Hallmark really wants to make a holiday that people take seriously, they can come up with one where we get the day off work.

14 tons! They probably had to do an engineering study on the building just to build the thing!

Rail mundane? I gotta tell you, some of the most exciting and fun times I've had were driving to Cincinnati on I-71 in say, Clinton County. Woo hoo. Parr-tay.