Everything posted by GCrites
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Sycamore Township: Kenwood Towne Centre
^Oh that's the old Dayton Mall trick where you shuffle the anchors around when a new one wants in so they both get new stores.
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The Future of America and Its Cities
Indeed, in Europe poverty's not in your face since you don't really need to go to the parts of town with it.
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New Albany: Ohio One (Intel Semiconductor Facility)
I guess people would rather buy a farm tractor with a pan attachment than an actual pan these days? Or is the area low on pans with all the development going on at once?
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Columbus: Clintonville Developments and News
GCrites replied to Summit Street's post in a topic in Central & Southeast Ohio Projects & ConstructionGo to a Wendy's. There's so many of them around here that there's only one car in line and one guy sitting in it what seems like all the time. I don't see how they keep them all open. One time I drove past 5 Wendys to get to a Rallys.
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Columbus: Near East Side / King-Lincoln / Olde Towne East Developments and News
GCrites replied to Summit Street's post in a topic in Central & Southeast Ohio Projects & ConstructionYes. Too many idea people and not enough executors. If they do get executors they get frustrated and leave for other cities. Too much apathy and thinking things are "fine" since we keep growing because of jobs.
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Off Topic
I guess someone had to be the modern day Eddie Ellner.
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US Economy: News & Discussion
Even if the robots "can" do it, if they're only as reliable as the shake machine it doesn't really matter
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US Economy: News & Discussion
General economic rant for fast food especially. If you can't staff the place at lunch maybe you shouldn't be open after 10pm. I know you were spoiled by the flood of Millenials you got between 2000 and 2020 that you made come in at 3AM to serve the two people that showed up during that hour but now you have to value the fact that you can get people at all.
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Columbus: Random Development and News
GCrites replied to Summit Street's post in a topic in Central & Southeast Ohio Projects & ConstructionThis is the part that goes through the former Links at Rickenbacker golf course. There may be another extension coming that curves to the left to serve the 6 or so warehouses slated to be constructed on the land that the FAA just opened up for development SE of the runway. There are 2-3 buildings under construction to the right that this extension will serve.
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Cincinnati: Over-the-Rhine: Development and News
Cincinnati is so strict about grills.
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The Great USA / World Photo Thread
That is the definition of looming.
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Columbus: Harrison West: Thurber Village Developments and News
^The "Groveport" (actually in the City of Columbus) Aldi is less than 1 year old.
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The Future of America and Its Cities
Did the Denver market respond with more units or just higher and higher prices?
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Columbus: Harrison West: Thurber Village Developments and News
Super Duper's coming back
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Columbus: Merion Village / Southside Developments and News
I was just through there today. It was shocking 😉 how old it all looked. I've been going through there since I was a teenager but hadn't been in a while. That electrical stuff is 100 years old and it looks like something out of a history book. I think I just took it at face value when I was younger because I can't say those kind of lines were all that common 25-30 years ago either, outside of industrial areas. 23 is starting to look old and haggard too between 270 and 665 since it hasn't changed much since the '50s either. It didn't seem that way when I was a kid. There is so much more traffic volume than even 10 years ago. Rathmell is currently closed at Parsons. The poles were already up for the replacement power lines on 23.
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Ohio Education / School Funding Discussion
^Yes my question is if there has been any subsequent legislation to prevent ECOT-like situations or just some penalties for the ECOT ownership structure themselves.
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Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati: Development and News
With as few young people as there are today (and COVID lingering) for UC to see record enrollment goes to show how important people feel going to school in the city is today.
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Columbus: Downtown Developments and News
So we're sitting here trying to cook up new zoning requirements when we could just apply the Downtown zoning to more neighborhoods.
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Columbus: Near East Side / King-Lincoln / Olde Towne East Developments and News
GCrites replied to Summit Street's post in a topic in Central & Southeast Ohio Projects & ConstructionKind of a pretty standard disinvestment story. Rip up the streetcar tracks, bypass it with a freeway, build a bunch of new stuff on the edge of town and see what happens.
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Hyperloop
"Verbal Government Approval" would be a good band name.
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Gas Prices
Gas is 60 cents more a gallon in Lancaster than Groveport.
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Ohio: General Business & Economic News
Only issue with that is they start asking where you get on the train... not a problem in Cleveland or now Cincinnati, but I've definitely had the conversations in Cincinnati before the streetcar opened.
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Ohio: General Business & Economic News
I do question the methodology as well since some of these MSAs are so big. The economic mobility of Ross, Pickaway and Fairfield Counties is way worse than Franklin or Delaware. Look at how well West Virginia and North Dakota do. That's because even fast food and casino jobs that they didn't have 40 years ago pay better than the chronic unemployment than you saw in WV or on western Native American reservations back then.
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Housing Market & Trends
It's weird, condos depreciate because you don't own the land but apartment buildings appreciate because the landlord owns the land. Same with SFH. Houses don't appreciate so much as the land does.