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That's exactly it. If you're a normal business traveler, this is the honey pot. With the high level of vehicle break-ins at the Wally World, I hope these hotels have some of their own parking lot security. If not, it's just going to add to another eventual hotel/retail collapse just like the one down the highway that Taylor replaced - Brice. Next stop, Kirkersville!

I would say Licking county, not just eastern. There are plenty of people all over this side that still use the analog of "I'm not going to Easton". It basically means they will surely be murdered as soon as they get past Hamilton Rd exit on 161 if those sweet summer children ever venture from their far and away idyllic country paradise of Johnstown.

Thanks, Lukateake! You're a brave man still sharing these over at the Facebook Johnstown moaning group. They've chased out most all of the voices of reason there.

Always appreciate your videos and the quality! I enjoyed it even more today with the happy timing when SiriusXM's Cinemagic stared playing the Men In Black intro theme along with your video start. The two went together a little too well.

There was just an announcement a few days ago that they were, again, scaling this development back. This time it's due to a lack of donations. I think the plan now is just a 2 story building. This is becoming a boondoggle. https://www.dispatch.com/videos/news/2024/10/30/christian-missionary-alliance-reynoldsburg-development-project/75946039007/ It's really a shame. The city really would have benefited from a complete redevelopment of this intersection, and still sorely needs that to happen. But relying on a tax shelter masquerading as a church to do it was a mistake.

Much needed housing supply for this area. Unfortunately, the pitch forks and torches are going to come out, full blast, against this. Despite a majority of people that both live and work in Licking County can statistically no longer afford to live in Licking County (thus the daily migration to Franklin for work), people will see this as nothing more than CMH housing. Hopefully they do a good job communicating and selling this idea.

I appreciate you braving the hostile and often ignorant 'Intel Johnstown" Facebook group to bring these videos to people in the area that don't fit into the narrow narrative that many in group likes to project. We enjoy them!

I'm reading all of these posts with one pinky finger extended out, fancily, and the other is at my lips, Dr. Evil-style, thinking how I can troll western Licking county with a land donation.

That's going to be one expensive "Latte Larry's"!

If it weren't for the family name and money ties to city elites, I'm sure Arshot would be in the same bucket at the Fort Rapids, Latitude Five25, and other "absent" property developers and owners. Just about everything they touch rots.

I'm curious as to what that residential component is going to look like, given its proximity to the Wexner lair.

From The Newark Advocate: "Nationwide Children's Hospital will build a Close to Home center in New Albany on land that has been donated by the family of billionaire Les Wexner. Nationwide's Close to Home centers are meant to provide a range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for newborns, children and young adults throughout the region. In New Albany, the Close to Home will offer urgent care-type services, lab, radiology, specialty clinics, and occupational, physical and speech therapy." "The 25 acres is part of a bigger chunk of 108 acres of land that the company owns. City Council gave first reading to legislation Wednesday night to rezone the land where the Close to Home will be built. Final action is expected at the Aug. 20 meeting. The 108 acres is south of state Route 161, east of U.S. 62, north of East Dublin-Granville Road and west of Kitzmiller Road."

It really is concerning how many people believe that being an ostrich is going to work. Willful ignorance. It's even more unsettling that a lot of this "change nothing / do nothing" messaging is coming from many of the farmers and other large land owners that are secretly looking for a pay day. They don't want merging because they want to sell and annex to New Albany or develop it. As much as many people like to believe New Albany and Intel just marched in and stole land, farmers sold out. It will be much more difficult or impossible for transactions like to happen if that land were no longer in a township.

Unfortunately, there is a very "anti-bike" culture persistent with people in those two municipalities and surrounding areas. I see it every day with aggressive drivers projecting their own political insecurities onto bike riders. I suspect that will change quickly over the next 5-10 as the demographics change.

Framework was a good idea. It would be a great idea if the people with actual decision making power considered it. I was involved in many of the Framework meetings from the start, some representing a local gov't in the area, and some representing myself as a resident. The problem. from what I've seen, is the people that make actual decisions and weigh influence, don't really give a squat about it. The biggest problem is the collusion between the county commissioners and the Southwest Licking Community Water and Sewer District. You can produce all the nice presentations with graphs, and data, and pictures, and outcomes people would like to see, but when you have those two powers making backroom deals for sewer and water service, it's all moot. Communities have been putting together master development plans, new zoning, or still just trying to figure out what they want to become. Then one day they wake up and read in the news that their township or village is now going to be covered by SLCWSD in some backroom deal that back stabbed many. Their business model is build to pay for their investments through heavy development. More taps - more billable customers. They can't even pay for their current planned water treatment facilities and want to build more, and those kinds of payments don't come from the type of development that the people who live where want to see. The water and sewer board has zero interest in expanding the their board to allow more representation from people in the areas they are taking over. The county commissioners and SLCWSD are the biggest enemies to Framework and most of the communities of western Licking county.