Zordon Shumway

Genuinely don't know. There are farms fields on three sides of it, and one of them is on the creek side of it so that should be even more vulnerable to flooding.

That's so sad. We used to live, quite literally, right around the corner from this before we bought our first house in Groveport. That entire lot is heavily wooded, they're going to annihilate 25 acres of trees next to one of the worst floodplains in central Ohio for a moderate amount of tiny apartments. Housing is housing, but it really sucks that they're doing it there and not on one of the large plots of scrubland nearby. Looks like there are already paths throughout, would've been nicer to see it become a park and connect up to the trail on other side of Shannon.

Walked down to the one on Parsons across from Planks a couple times. No food stalls at that one at least, but I was really impressed with their butcher section. The house made tomatillo salsa was incredible --- I should really head back down for another tub and a bag of chicharrones.

All good points that track with my experience being a downtown office worker in the past, and I can see the upsides of the new spot. My biggest concern is really whether that area has enough demand to keep two groceries alive. If it does, that's amazing and I'm all for it. But selfishly, if it doesn't, I would rather Charmy's be the winner because they're only three blocks away from my place versus the six or seven of the new place. Now if the Estrella goes forward and gets a grocer as well, that would be the best possible outcome for me, but we're still a good ways away on that even in the best case scenario.

Man, that would be a tough one. They would have them selling their established location to Charmy's and then trying to open a new location just three blocks away. I mean sure, you'll have some name recognition going in, but your old location is still right there, and they appear to have maintained the exact same inventory and vendor relationships (local bakeries, etc). And as if they needed one more layer, the owners of Charmy's used to run the dining part of Hills downtown location too. I mean all that said, I'll take as many retail locations downtown as they want to open. One of the biggest shortcoming of Columbus is the lack of places to stop in and grab a snack or a drink if you're out walking around.

So is he making these look like that out of spite?

Pembroke has an unfair advantage here too. It's the only place where you can guarantee you won't be able to see the Pembroke from your unit.

That's awesome. Excited for them to get those occupancy numbers up. Preston has a significant position in the skyline from the southeast and it still looks very dark in the evenings--- would be cool to see a bit more light and life in there.

That's my hope for the Estrella, assuming it goes forward. Smaller footprint and with good proximity to the soon-to-be-expanded Jaycee Arms and existing Nazareth Towers a block or two away. Would be a prime location for a budget-oriented grocer.

I was just saying a couple days ago that one of the biggest things I find lacking downtown that we had in Groveport was access to sports facilities. Basketball, tennis, and pickleball all have fairly small space requirements and are the kind of amenities that really make an area feel alive. I wouldn't advocate for wasting space on High Street or in a commercial corridor, but maybe taking out one of the billion parking lots by Franklin University, since it;s a little more residential to start with.

Fingers crossed for you bud!

That's got to be a road design problem because the one across Grant near Franklin University gets a shockingly good response rate from vehicles. It does have a tiny center island with an extra sign on it though, and I'd think having an obstruction in the middle of the road probably does a lot to calm traffic.

I can't be bothered to read the Dispatch anymore, but I don't think that they're far off the mark. Microsoft is pulling *way* back on AI investments across the board. Whether that's from profitability concerns (most current AI models are nowhere near being profitable and are floating on venture capital) or anticipated construction cost issues or a belief that DeepSeek-style models will need less compute power and therefore far less capacity, but they're halting construction projects throughout the world and pulling the plug on multi-billion dollar contracts. Maybe they'll come back to it, but I have some serious doubts.

This one is pretty bland as they go (and just makes the cutoff being built in 1969!), but I agree --- they're underappreciated as a whole. Obviously we don't need to preserve everything but I too want to keep at least a few good examples of buildings from previous eras. While this one is definitely a goner, we're fortunate to have a near-twin across the street at 4th and Mound, which was built only a year later in 1970. Also a TON of similar era builds on Town between 4th and 6th.

Got an interesting view of the crane over at Grant today.

I know I'm the odd man out on this topic, but I actually kind of liked the Gilbert from this angle.

Perhaps we can repaint to full-on Caribbean colors? Just the absolute brightest, boldest colors you can imagine.

Those renders are lovely. Would be great to see a tower of any variety on the south side of 70 to help downtown start jumping that gap. Bonus points if they can figure out a way to work in an extendable mast that only pops up in the late afternoon through sunset to throw literal shade at German Village.

Wonder how their development timeline is going to line up with the ODOT Bixby interchange which I didn't think was even a possibility until 2026 or later. Adding 500 units in that location with the current at-grade access to 33 is going to make this an absolute nightmare. No access to 33 SE going out, and access in from 33 NW is going to require turning across two lanes of highway traffic that doesn't have a signal for at least six miles in either direction. Real "may the odds be ever in your favor" energy trying to cross there.

Yeah I was getting Millennial from it as well. It's the 120' LED signage bit. Not that I dislike it or anything, I love cyberpunk nonsense like neon lights and huge LED screens. That's extremely my aesthetic. Guessing this would be around Front & Livingston where the old Wasserstrom showroom was?

I actually think having the occasional 1 or 2-story on a corner can be a helpful navigation tool and can add a little color to a street wall. Surface lots can go though, totally onboard there. Also minor nitpick, but calling Haveli Bistro the former Wendy's is doing them dirty. They've been there since 2018 and for a lot of that time have been the sole non-food court Indian restaurant downtown. Nice place, and one of our go-tos when we need a quick option for vegetarian/vegan friends.

How much would i need to bribe the construction crew to look the other way while I snagged a few dozen of those blue bricks?

FireWire? Have you considered donating that particular ancient relic to a museum? 😆

The warehouse spec seems easy to understand, those are literal shells and they go up in a matter or a month or two. Intel though, we got news stories every week for an entire summer of those huge superloads that were being shipped in from all over the world, brought up the river to Cincinnati, then trucked for like a week up the factory. And they did that something like three dozen times. It's hard to reconcile the idea that they would go through the much effort and ship that much material when there's a possibility of not even using the stuff. I'm sure it happens all the time, but man is it hard to wrap my brain around.

Grant keeping the momentum going and prepping for the next round.