Everything posted by GCrites
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2022 U.S. Senate Race
He doesn't seem like the kind of service member other service members and veterans like.
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2022 U.S. Senate Race
^Right, when voting isn't a part of a Harley Rodeo they aren't as likely to turn up.
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Columbus: Olentangy River Road Developments
GCrites replied to buildingcincinnati's post in a topic in Central & Southeast Ohio Projects & ConstructionIt's a good place for them to drive through not drive to. We need more places to go to, not through.
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Columbus LinkUS BRT
Thanks for the info. I was at work and couldn't access the article.
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Columbus LinkUS BRT
For $8 billion we get BRT but Cincinnati got rail for $130 million?
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The Future of America and Its Cities
This is a symptom of not enough corner stores and other "retail" tenants such as bars and restaurants in a vicinity. Supermarkets constantly closing in favor of larger and larger locations with ever-wider product lines, putting coffee shops, banks, liquor stores, and large prepared food sections within their doors has led to the loss of delis, pharmacies and other specialty retailers in non-super-dense areas that are old, dense but have a tipping point of SFH that keeps the smaller shops away. Columbus is bursting with neighborhoods like this that have too little multifamily to get full walkability under today's business models but did have all of those things under the business models of the past.
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2022 U.S. Senate Race
So many people in my personal network are binging up how terrible Mandel's ads are -- both Democrats and Republicans. And there was an LTE in the Dispatch today calling them out as well.
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Urban Trees
Are those the ones that smell like come? Portsmouth had those and some friends from NE Ohio knew about them. I had never experienced that as someone from Columbus before but they had.
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HB 616 ("Don't Say Gay" / CRT Bill)
I remember going along as we visited prospective preschools for me. I remember asking a girl at the playground what it's like to be 3. She said "It's no different." Meanwhile my mother is one of those people that can't remember anything before age 10 and couldn't even in her 20s. She doesn't remember her house not having running water or a bathroom, having taking a bath in a washtub or anything like that even though they didn't add a bathroom until she was 8. We even have pictures. Memories in early childhood vary.
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Columbus: Driving Park / Southern Orchards / Southeast Side Developments and News
Save the Cube.
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Urban Trees
Ashville lost almost all of its trees in a pre-emptive strike against the ash borer several years ago. It looks terrible and they haven't planted enough new ones.
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New Albany: Ohio One (Intel Semiconductor Facility)
I think it's not going to be too long until the banks start financing speculative SFH again. Perhaps not to the degree that they were in 2003, but they're not going to demand every house be sold before it goes up.
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New Albany: Ohio One (Intel Semiconductor Facility)
Man, tearing all that down before the zoning change goes through. I know they're going to get it but still.
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Urban Trees
There used to be a thing around town where if someone couldn't buy a new house they would cut down all the trees so that it would be more like a new house. I've had several conversations with people who thought like that.
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Cleveland: Historic Photos
He was time traveling to research an upcoming role... ...yeah, that's the ticket
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Columbus: OSU Medical Center Expansion
GCrites replied to buildingcincinnati's post in a topic in Central & Southeast Ohio Projects & ConstructionWasn't this section called "Crane Watch" at some point?
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New Albany: Ohio One (Intel Semiconductor Facility)
It does have Commercial Activity Tax of 0.26 percent.
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Rethinking Transport in the USA
The most important control points in the interstate system were the ones developed first and, for the most part, remain the most important ones today.
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Favorite Music At The Moment?
^Dana Jean Phoenix, The Sweeps, Cannons, Trevor Something Big fan of this one:
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Columbus: Downtown: Arena District Developments and News
GCrites replied to CMH_Downtown's post in a topic in Central & Southeast Ohio Projects & ConstructionSimilar properties in the vicinity had to sell for the elevated amounts before the property tax valuation goes up. If there haven't been sales of this type recently it will stay low. A two-story commercial building or an old 10,000 square foot dump truck maintenance building selling for big bux doesn't count. Since there is almost no other SFH in the vicinity they can't make a direct comparison.
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Cincinnati: Downtown: Convention Center / Hotel
You get more shows with a big room than you do with multiple smaller rooms.
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Ohio Census / Population Trends & Lists
Anecdotally it seems like a lot of people are moving back in with their folks no matter their age. Or to Appalachia where the jobs mostly suck but prices have only gone up a little rather than doubled.
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Ohio Census / Population Trends & Lists
'50s zoning laws push for SFH only yet land is too expensive for developers to be interested in SFH in the city.
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Cincinnati: Potential New Arena
Ha, a lot of the other NFL stadiums have autocross going on outside of them all weekend during the spring and summer. Not the case at PBS. The whole idea of the public sector/taxpayers funding the majority of stadium and arena builds (not including state schools) is kind of outdated anyway, no?
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Columbus: OSU / University Area Developments and News
GCrites replied to CMH_Downtown's post in a topic in Central & Southeast Ohio Projects & Construction^bUt ThIs TyPe Of BuSiNeSs NeEdS a DrIvE-tHrU!