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People that trash humanities majors as "poor" because they don't make a lot of money early career but always ignore how they zoom past technical fields mid-to-late career since most technical fields have pay ceilings.

And that speaks to another thing -- multiple experienced realtors/agents have explained that removing "dated" looks do not increase the selling price of dwellings enough to make it worth the effort. If it's dated and worn/filthy/damaged yes. Dated and in good shape, no. Now if the paint covers up the fact that the trim is a bunch of different colors and types yes. I remember a roommate of mine was selling the house and he was telling the realtor all his plans. She kept having to tell him, "No, you don't need to bother with that" "No, the carpet isn't stained and is in good shape". He did all that stuff anyway and it didn't help the price just like she said. "Mostly just get rid of the empty liquor bottles that you've placed all along the cabinet tops, replace those missing wall tiles in the bathroom and make sure everything works." It was his grandma's house and we moved in after she passed and didn't touch a thing. Everything was preserved perfectly from the '60s. Let people choose whether they want to paint everything rather than making them have to paint because you made the place look like all those primered '76 Camaros that you saw running around the South Side in the '90s. This is amplified in today's market with no supply and such a giant move-in-ready premium. "Dated" does not make something non-move-in-ready.

Ah, I thought that open space on the far side in the picture was for a drive-thru. It's unusual to open a new bank branch not located in a CBD without a drive-thru, but I know a lot of rules are changing regarding how branches are done. Then you think about COVID and how many branches closed the inside due to it. My PNC branch in Lancaster for my business never opened the inside again due to COVID then the whole branch closed for good about a year later. They have another branch in DT Lancaster though.

Achievement Unlocked: Add Another Drive-Thru to Clintonville

They have to eliminate anything brown because "Millennials hate brown"

Sorry, middle school sizes only

Design in 2021 only allows one font and it's that one. Everything is getting de-branded to it.

Man that second one would have been a lot more expensive to "cancel" than a couple of statues

Let's face it, current code prioritizes '60s ranches as seen in Eastmoor and the Olentangy neighborhood so that the city wouldn't lose "sales" to the suburbs in the '50s and '60s. And it worked. The suburbs didn't really start taking over until the '80s when Columbus Public Schools started getting a bad reputation. Then of course as we do in America we pick a year (in this case 1972, which is a common year for this phenomenon), declare perfection and never change afterward.

Hmm, no I don't remember either of those. I'm sure I would have remembered that second one... my god. Does NOT fall into the category of "conservative"! First one is pretty light on the visual details. The other one I remember (the "conservative" one) was more like the current Washington D.C. Convention Center. Of course it's been over 30 years since I've seen the other two I remember. They were in the Dispatch and maybe Columbus Monthly.

Still mad all these years later they didn't go with the Convention Center design that emulated the look of the Union Station "mall". There were 3 designs: what we got, a more conservative one and the one that looked like Union Station's shopping facade. The two that lost are still not on the internet as far as I can tell. But apparently the OSU library has them in their archives. I wanted the Union Station one to win even as a kid.

I wouldn't suggest trying to fly a banner from the Wright Brothers plane.

Being on the National Register of Historic Places unfortunately doesn't keep buildings from getting torn down. But here in Columbus if someone wants parking it will happen no matter what.

So it's a casino?

Freedombook

At the lower end of the scale the move-in-ready premium is huge and is why Whitehall went up 25% while the rest of the metro went up 13%.

Open up in the new building and only lose the location during construction if it's mixed-use

Beating on the door at 6AM

Maybe I've been hanging out at their Turnpike locations too much instead of their standalones

I always associated Roy Rogers with chicken more then roast beef. Am I weird?

There's been several proposals for boating facilities but nothing ever stuck. Then the failed dredging experiment of the late '80s happened. After that we didn't really see anything.

People got really hung up on the fact that the rivers aren't navigable and ignored them for that reason.

It's not even BRT-lite. It's just fewer, nicer stops.

I don't know if the expensive SFH on 1/4-1/2 acre+ lots is ripe for redevelopment though. I'm talking about north of Ackerman mostly.

MPO people who are thinking too much about warehouse development at the expense of other projects.