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Marino's owners retiring, but Arthur Treacher's returning to take over A local name for fish-and-chips is going away after decades, but a historic brand in the fish-and-chips business is coming back. Harry and Rosemarie Kougendakis, who have owned and run Marino’s Seafood Fish & Chips at 1216 W. 5th Ave. near Grandview Heights since 1992, are retiring this month. But a familiar name will fill that space. Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips is moving in. Arthur Treacher's to return to Columbus to take over Marino's - Columbus Business First

That boring stuff is where it's at sometimes. A buddy of mine works at a place that sells and services forklifts and they've never had a year when they lost money.

That is the location of Groveport's only hill. I hope we don't lose the hill.

Columbus needs to focus on this sort of thing, not just blue-collar jobs like it does now. We are going to get the warehouse jobs no matter what, but better-paying jobs are elusive and easy to lose especially if the politicians swarm around any possible loss of blue-collar jobs but shrug their shoulders about office jobs lost to mergers and private equity acquisitions that move jobs to Miami and Atlanta.

Why is that scrubland anyway? Is it flood plain? Scrubland is unusual around here.

Coins have gotten very expensive to manage for organizations relative to their value.

So now you're back to handling coins. Great.

Emailed my Senator (Michele Reynolds) yesterday.

Like the article cbusorbust linked says these towers are 100 years old. They didn't really look that old in the '90s and before; in fact they looked normal. But now they are really showing their age.

Man Columbus just plows through recessions doesn't it? The city was in strong financial shape in the late 2000s-early 2010s according to those graphs. Growth continued here (not SFH -- which was dead in the water everywhere -- but rather in multifamily). And you couldn't even tell the early '90s recession was happening here. We lost an enormous amount of blue-collar jobs in the 2000s (Lucent, Delphi, Buckeye Steel) yet kept growing. This makes me suspect of claims that we had to drop our streetcar plans because of 2008 since the graphs show that Columbus' worst financial position debt-wise was actually around 2018. Perhaps a tough lending environment around 2008 was to blame and prevented the city from taking on more debt, then in the ZIRP times of 2018 the city over-used the resource.

The feds won't give us rail transit funding until we re-densify on our own. Our old zoning code was really holding us back because it prioritized SFH within the city limits to try and compete with the suburbs during the 1950s. That is being addressed with high-density ZoneIn corridors that began only in 2024 and are rolling out over the next few years. We are allowed to get federal bus funding until we reach the required density level for rail funding. The Statehouse is not going to help us with rail transit funding the way things are now, but they are loosening up on Amtrak funding in the state finally which is good.

Gotta play it safe around the power lines

Looks like a shirt that's inside out.

They showed this on 60 Minutes last Sunday.

Just some sewer work that was planned anyway. They are going to fill out the existing spec building first. People are starting to move out of the houses.