Toddguy

How did I miss this?

yeah I know...*sigh*. We need to just keep talking about INTEL! and SILICON HEARTLAND and BOOMTOWN, etc. and also about HOUSING SHORTAGE GOING TO GET WORSE! and all. Developers...do not miss out on this boom opportunity-make the most of it! you know, all that kind of s$%t. We need to appeal to their greed.

Schiff is proposing an 18 story building?

Some of these older office buildings should be taken off the market, especially if they are smaller and older, or if they have a thing side and are rectangular-those would be great for residential conversion. I think the Continental Center conversion is a good example. I think we should still try to get those workers downtown though, and making downtown a real mixed use center would help that. And maybe they might just want a new state of the art tower? I don't want to kill off the chances of a new office tower and rely solely on residential. With Intel we just need to adjust our thinking and expectations and get the developers to do the same thing-time to take the city to the next level! Who knows, in ten years we might have the Columbus Cavaliers? (just kidding NEO people!).

Why stop at 15? Go for something like the Merchant Tower-think big. If it gets downsized then it might still be 20 or 25 floors.

Amen and Hallelujah!

I agree. And we are at an advantage compared to many other nations suffering from declining birthrates because we are used to immigration, are a nation of immigrants, and have had waves of immigration all throughout are history. Not so much for Japan, China, Russia, etc. These societies may have a much harder time accepting people that are different than the majority. I don't think Japan even wants immigrants and would rather just accept the consequences. Not so sure about South Korea. How willing would some of these Asian nations be to accept immigrants from other Asian nations? We are lucky in that we can attract a wide range of immigrants from many different continents. When it becomes a crisis maybe the anti-immigration crowd will simmer down a bit. And I am talking about controlled and legal immigration as, in any nation, we do need to be able to control our own borders.

Columbus has a fairly low average age compared to most of the rest of Ohio. Also the demographics for the Midwest have been unfavorable for a while, and Cbus has grown. We also need to look at what is happening in the rest of the nation-housing costs increasing even more, and we need to seriously look at climate change migration by 2050. And if we start going off a demographic cliff, we can open up-we traditionally have been a nation of immigrants. Look at how many are getting in legally and illegally as it is. We really do not have crystal balls to look at future trends. Remember when in 1970 the demographers were predicting a Hilliard population of 100,000 by the year 2000? We just do not know enough about all of the future variables. That being said, the best predictor of the near future is the near past. Which would be continued high growth for Central Ohio-especially with the job and economic news as of late. We just do not know how great that growth will be. *I also don't see Cincinnati slowing down much if at all. JMHO of course. Of course it won't matter if we don't start building more damn housing!

I hate to be a downer, but I agree with you. I liked the first iteration better. Go back to that and just give them the damn lower facade. Sometimes these commissions are just a pain in the ass. They took the personality out of it IMO-but I guess we will take what we can get-which is so "Columbus" in a way smh. I Don't want this lobotomized version. I want the commissioners to get lobotomies instead.

Zelkovas are great tough street trees that can live quite long and can get decently large and are generally unproblematic. Smh that they cut them down.

Is there anything they could get that would tie in with the casino? The location is right next to a freeway interchange also. I don't see a park as a good option myself. Maybe a small park between this site and the townhouses to the south. They could certainly have a sports or recreation part to it-maybe something sports/fitness oriented, with indoor rock climbing and other things in a large complex? The e-sports arena could tie into that.

Yes I am glad it is coming down, but we just know that any replacement is going to be a disappointment. Is there any idea out there of what might replace this? I hope they take their time and wait for something right for the site. They let it sit long enough rotting, they should do the same while waiting for a good replacement. I hope they don't just jump at any offer to build-like they did with Columbus Commons, etc. Something mixed use, with housing for seniors, the disabled, and affordable housing mixed in with market rate would be nice. Maybe would could try and get Intel to sponsor it. The Wexners are out now, so we need a donor individual or company. Maybe we could guilt them into it lol?

Please God let me live long enough to see this little corner of hell dead mall be torn down. All dead now-Northland, Eastland, and Westland. RIP-now get rid of the two that are carcasses left to rot! No respect for the dead at all lol.

Lipstick on a pig.

Yay my last treatment is tomorrow! I will be celebrating this weekend. I feel very fortunate to be able to put this mostly behind me now.

Don't do this to me! I will obsess about that tower! lol.

Thanks. I am not that familiar with the area either. It sounds like a good idea that should be adopted in more areas of the city.

And hurricanes, earthquakes etc. are on such a larger scale than tornado damage. We may have some windstorms, icestorms, blizzards, etc. that can damage wires/utility poles, but that is taken care of in a week or two. There are parts of Dade County that got hit by Andrew in 1992 that are still not rebuilt.

What other parts of that tract outlined has parcels that could be used for affordable housing? Are there other non-residential properties that could be redone-maybe like what was done with the old Kroger strip mall off Ackerman and Olentangy?

Ugh. Still downgrading heights smh. In an area like this and with a housing crisis.

Well we do all get our Eldergay cards when we hit 50 tho....just saying. lol You start getting hounded when you near 50-sort of like with AARP. And yeah these spaces are needed. I live in an area where there are no protections whatsoever for gay people of any age. Public accommodations, housing, employment-there are no protections. There is an epidemic of isolation among older men, and it is worst with older gay men. This will be a good thing, hopefully involving not just eldergays, but also other elders of our lovely alphabet community. Maybe they could have a token space for an old straight dude? lol.

This is going to look so good and help the streetscape so much when the renovations are done and the new building is filling in that big gap.

I love the bolded part. Needs to be used when appropriate for Clintonvillains as well. I bet they just can't wait until the transients...oops I mean renters move in amongst them.

Cuyahoga County under a blizzard warning. I am just glad that there do not seem to be many power outages and I hope it stays that way. I feel badly for the homeless in this mess.

It looks ok.