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:clap: I'm so excited for this plan! I hope they can add a pedestrian bridge to the plan sometime down the road but other than that, we are heading in the right direction!

That new rendering........

Great pics....I Have always been in love with this city! Can't wait to go back in a few months

I actually work close to this subway and I hate subway so I never ate there but I have co workers that eat there regualrly. I didn't mean to laugh at them but the look on their faces after they heard this story was absolutely priceless and I almost died laughing. Pretty F'd up situation though

Growing up in Columbus and my father and his side of the family from Cincy, we traveled up and down 71 a lot. And I can remember my dad and my grandparents always telling me to stay away from Lebanon. I really don't know the whole story but my grandparents were harrassed by some locals a long time ago and it happened again when my father was in his 30s. So whenever I go down to Cincy, I would always never get off on those exits out of fear. Then one of my clients from Grove City passed away and guess where the funeral was.......South Lebanon. I was so nervous and I almost didn't attend the funeral because of that 'fear'. But another (black) co worker and I went down and I was pretty surprised, everybody was super friendly (we got a lot of stares) but almost everybody greeted us with real smiles and we didn't have any issues. Although there still may be racists people in Lebanon, there are racists people everywhere and the situations that happened in the past need not dictate how I approach situations today. Sorry for writing a book lol

One of my co-workers was born and raised in Elgin and she always talks about some castle shaped house in Elgin that is 'haunted'. I will have to ask her about it again, maybe check it out one day

I am really excited for this project! Can't wait until it opens

:applause: you were not lying when you said you covered ALL of STL....every side of town are in this set!

WOW....Easton getting bigger.....didn't think that was possible! Hopefully this is good news for my property value

I drove through here a few weeks ago on my way to see my brother in Kenosha, WI and it was almost like a really dark cloud was over my car the entire time and I was on the skyway. My wife even noticed it. These pics make me sad to see such a booming city (back in the day) falling apart like this. I thought East STL was bad....this place might be worse

Well, if you count US territories I will have to go with Old San Juan. My parents just recently retired and relocated to Puerto Rico and I love that place. I don't speak any Spanish (trying to learn) but I am trying to convince my wife to move there one day soon. I really love everything about PR! D.C. comes in a close second place

I just recently drove thru this city on my way to the Ozarks and was pretty shocked at the amount of people and buildings they had downtown (I was thinking small town) I didn't take a tour or anything but great pics!

This was the first time in a long time I had so much fun in downtown Columbus for the Arts Festival. My in-laws were in town from STL and they were in shock at how much downtown C.O. has changed in the last 5 years. Keep it up Columbus, we are making great progress!

After looking at Walker's pics (nice pics BTW), I am looking forward to seeing what they do with this area during Red, White, and Boom. Also does anybody know if they are moving the Rib Fest back to this side of downtown or are they keeping it at the Arena District?

Good start....hope we hurry up and get some buildings up soon.

I would be happy with those renderings...the more traffic downtown after 5pm, the better!

Opens on the best day of the year (my b-day). This project is turning out to look really good. Thanks for the updates

Thanks for the pics Keith! I know it is not finished but this sh!t just looks boring....SMH @ Columbus

At first, I was upset that Columbus didn't want the casino in AD because I thought it would be the perfect venue to bring traffic downtown but after reading Walker's response, I'm glad I voted for Issue 2.

Shades Diner has some of the BEST breakfast in the City! I love that place

Thanks for the pics Walker! I hope that helps with traffic in that area after 5pm

Miani's (Sloopy's), Cluck U Chicken, Hound Dogs Pizza, Scarlet & Grey Cafe... FTW!!!! Damn I miss college

Evan Turner's buzzer beater was crazy! Evan Turner>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everybody else in college basketball

:applause: for Columbusite because I have a few family members who live over in the area and I don't even like going to visit because there is always 'something' going on. I hope you carry a gun and a vest when you venture into those areas of C.O. :lol:

The additional housing and retailers downtown is a great idea and I'm all for it but I don't buy that's the reason why they wanted the Casino moved from the Arena District. Casino's have always had the stereotype of being 'bad' and brings lots of crime to the area (especially in Columbus) and I think its B.S. that all of a sudden its okay to put it on the Westside because we all know the 'westside' is already run down and crime infested so now a casino can help revive that area of Columbus :rolleyes: Rant over!