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Yeah former Columbus ones all have too many straights for that moniker to really apply anymore.

That is correct. Minimum population size in the vicinity for new store openings keeps rising and rising as margins shrink due to online sales volume.

On 3rd and 4th it feels like a giant hand is trying to push you out of town rather than encouraging you to patronize the businesses.

It's going to grow up to be a linebacker!

My grandmother planted bamboo and after about 15 years it got really nasty. I had to cut and mow and cut and mow probably 10 times before it finally died. It was next to a fence and got on both sides so it was hard to get under the fence fabric.

Because the land was given to them for free? Our cultural anomalies can usually be explained by government subsidy actions. Also a lot of Europe was not a good place to live during various historical periods due to royal or other government actions and poverty.

I think people in other countries (and non-dominant ethnic groups in the U.S.) have a greater sense of how their individual spending behaviors affect the businesses and built environment around them. Also they take more pride in what their local economy produces. In Italy if you drive around in a Lamborghini or Ferrari people come up to you and say "Isn't this a cool car?" with the implication that somehow all of Italy was involved in the car unlike in the U.S. even with locally-made cars where it's "You have a cool car" like you made it yourself or something. Few people in Cincinnati see an IROC-Z and say "Oh we made that" unlike Gold Star, Busken, Star Wars toys or LaRosa's even though the factory was right in the middle of town. So we have food and drink pride but don't think about other things going on around town. Now in Toledo I see more Jeep pride and around Columbus there is some Honda pride but not very strong. The Jeep Pride is bigger. The downside of that is nationalism and territorialism though. We could use more territorialism with retail though. Americans still take enormous pride in their food and drink establishments ("You're drinking Budweiser?" "We are NOT eating McDonald's!") but won't extend the same to stores.

A buddy of mine currently living in KC and his GIS Analyst wife say there aren't any zoning laws where they live. I don't know if they live within the city limits or not. What I do know is that the development patterns where they live are crazy. There are mansions next to trailers. That may have been artificially depressing values as compared to rental rates in the vicinity.

Because there's actual return to be had. Back in the '70s and '80s when everybody worshiped the suburbs only filling a unit only put like $100 more a month in their pockets. It was hard to motivate landlords to deal with all that over a few bucks.

Great job putting every property owner's phone number on the internet, county auditors' websites. You didn't think those guys would web scrape all those names, phone numbers and addresses in like 2 days, did you? Even if you took them off they still had the chance to get them and add them to their databases.

Sounds like someone has never heard of TOD.

I meant former NYC residents taking the money they got from selling their NYC property then moving to Cleveland and banking the rest. I should have been more clear; it came out weird.

Some people are going to take the appreciation and run. It's going on in Cleveland with old guard NYC folks too.

That's the difference between being a demand problem like NYC and a supply problem like Columbus. In NYC elasticity of demand is lower because an enormous number of people want to live there but can't. And there's X number of people that aren't rich that have to live there in order to keep the city going. Whereas with Columbus if prices reached too high a level everybody bolts for cheaper places south and southeast of town. They already do. Or they'll go to Indianapolis, Austin, Nashville, Cincinnati or wherever. There is no replacement for NYC in many people's minds. So if Columbus doesn't build enough people stay put or pick another town. The problem is when someone still can't afford to live in Linden or on the Hilltop. And that's a supply problem. But of course national media is going to focus on the areas where the problem is most acute.

Was the military increasing housing allowances to match that rate in San Diego?

Sometimes when people say "Chiner" they think you’re making fun of Chinese people but oh... no. It's making fun of the British and how the BBC World News people say it.

Bush honeysuckle sucks! I have 20-35 acres of it. So much of it that I can't even tell how much I have.

...Of the 595 responses, 298 were for thefts. In fact, according to Boardman police, in each of the past seven years, responses to the Boardman Walmart have exceeded 500 every year, with a high of 738 in 2019. “It is disturbing that we spend a lot of police resources in Boardman at the Walmart store,” said Werth. “And I would say it’s kind of out of balance with our responses to the other commercial stores.” To prove his point, after Walmart’s 595, Boardman police last year responded to the Southern Park Mall 509 times and to Target 72 times. The new Meijer opened in May, and since then has required 180 responses, while the Walmart over the same time had 397 responses... ... “From what I’ve seen and talked with other chiefs throughout the state, it’s not unheard of for a Walmart,” said Werth. “So I wouldn’t say it’s out of the ordinary.” Bazetta Township Police Chief Chris Herlinger knows all about dealing with Walmart. When Herlinger took over three years ago, calls to the township’s Walmart were taxing his 10-person department. “We had a lot of calls there,” said Herlinger. “Primarily shoplifters and theft, but you also have fights and disturbances.” https://www.wkbn.com/news/27-investigates/boardman-walmart-most-police-responses-of-any-single-area-location/

I especially don't like Walker haha

Because DeWine isn't a sucker unlike Scott Walker.

That's true in strip malls as well and obviously if the store owns it's own real estate (as Wal-Mart often does) they are paying for it directly.

They might need Backiotomies

This is one of those instances where the progressive Left doesn't know quite enough about real estate to be able to discern in which instances lack of supply is causing the problem and in which instances people demand is more the issue. Columbus is more of a supply problem where as NYC is a demand problem. When it's a demand problem that's when rent control may be necessary.

They shifted to big box to get more space in a single story floor and have more control over their hours (i.e. longer hours). Also to have more locations than we could reasonably have malls. Goes back to having more places where you can sell basic essentials than discretionary. Circleville can't support a mall on it's own because the population is too small. But it can support a Wal-Mart.

If the surrounding area has enough discretionary income and population loitering doesn't matter. If the income starts going only to basic essentials or the population isn't high enough nearby to reach the required metrics that's when vacancy increases. Or someone opens another mall. Remember most malls are almost all discretionary with very little in basic essentials in 2023 as compared to the '80s when they had Radio Shack, Sears and pharmacies in them that you needed to go to.