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Just drove by the site this morning and saw some SME Construction trucks there with what looks to (my untrained eye) to be surveying equipment. So it looks like we may start seeing some movement on this site in the coming weeks. I know this isn't a THRILLING update, but good to see things are beginning to move.

Once CHIPS got through the Senate, Manchin and Schumer came to an agreement on the Build Back Better bill, which has a lot of climate change and green energy money allocated in it. Mitch McConnell was holding CHIPS hostage as a way to prevent the passage of the Build Back Better bill and now that CHIPs passed the Senate the GOP is out of ways to stop CHIPS and use it as leverage against Build Back Better. It's basically politicians politicking.

There's so much opportunity in this neighborhood that I think it's on the cusp of it being a really exciting downtown community. To add to the better bike lanes, I know that the city is planning on expanding the current curb cuts along Bryden this year from 18th to Fairwood. While it isn't a dedicated lane (and I would love for them to get rid of half the parking on Bryden in deference to a dedicated (dare I say, grade separated) bike lane) it is further movement in the direction of making the interior of the neighborhood more friendly to non-car forms of transportation.

But hey, some dude from Bucyrus will be able to park his F150 within walking distance of the state fair for a day. So I mean, it evens out for us in Columbus.

To play devil's advocate, the site is bound by a public park on three sides and a private rail line on the fourth. Without spoiling the park further by adding additional public transit access, I don't really know how to make it not car dependent without forcing residents to walk, like, a mile in either direction to get access to public transit. Due to it's location within a public park, it's likely going to require car trips to support any commercial development within the development. While I, personally, think the development is underwhelming, I also think we should realize that a dense mixed use building relying solely on pedestrian and public transit access in Columbus park, with the closest bus stop being over a mile away, may not be the most successful plan and may not be realistic for the site.

Agree. It looks great and different and is the kind of density we need near downtown. Huge fan of this proposed development It'd be welcome.

Glad that Studio 35 got their 5 parking spaces back. I loved Studio 35 and had been going there off and on for the better part of 13 years but seeing the owner take this stance against a bike lane and now seeing that the ideal is a bike lane directly in the door zone has really soured me on them. It's frustrating to see so many businesses in this city remain so dedicated to providing car access directly in front of their place of business, even to the detriment of their local community. Like, they have two cinema's in pretty dense (at least by suburban Ohio standards) locations and the city mere suggestion of losing a little bit of parking led them on this giant public campaign is just so short sighted and telling about their priorities. It's basically, "I'm a fan of bikes, but if they could do it away from my business, that'd be great".

Also, in terms of development along Main. Interesting pull when looking through permits. Bunch of roof work is going on at the old Rock of Faith Church on Main. Owner is labeled as, "Rosette on Main" and the address is the same as Equity Construction Solutions. Surprised nothing has been heard anywhere else on this and it could be nothing, but still intriguing.

It's nice that Main is getting this type of infill. There's so much opportunity up and down E. Main for denser development and it really should be building up along the entire corridor.

I would also think that moving a runway would be a slow process as disrupting air travel isn't really a good thing and so that probably puts a substantial limit on the quickness with which one could relocate. Barring just paving the entire CMH area with runway grade cement and just moving paint, which I would guess who be prohibitively expensive or we would see it more often. But these are wild guesses from someone with no background in airport construction and logistics.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/18/semiconductor-silicon-chips-carbon-footprint-climate While I understand water concerns, any manufacturing consumes a large amount of water. Take for instance the Anheuser-Busch brewery, most brewery industry sources say that 10 gallons of water is used to produce one gallon of beer (https://www.brewersassociation.org/resource-hub/water-usage/), advertising for the plant says that they produce 10 million barrels of beer (1 barrel is 31 gallons) (https://www.anheuser-busch.com/about/breweries-and-tours/columbus-oh/) That means that that brewery is using roughly 310m gallons of fresh water every year, which is about 1/3 of the water consumption of Intel's manufacturing campus, which is nearly 7 times as big as the AB brewery. I do agree that the waste water should be monitored, but I don't know if it is enough of a concern to stop the entire project. This is especially true, given that I don't have any other type of manufacturing to compare it to including steel and agriculture which is all over the place in this area. Like, agriculture produces a significant amount of waste water and runoff, but I don't have numbers on that, so I can't compare it to the type of waste water runoff of a semiconductor facility. Maybe it's similar, Maybe it's wayyy worse, but I don't have a comparison point. Also, I know this is my first post and it sounds like I'm caping hard for Intel. I PROMISE I don't have conflict of interest with them. I just love this forum and wanted to start contributing!