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Columbus grew! As for others major cities in Oh...um...yeah...in "the region" Indy dropped.

Well given the other post in that "other" city thread, they will have every city in Central Ohio losing...or if gaining it will be by "only" some amount. When the Intel boom really hits Newark may well be off to the races population wise, leaving in the dust some cities in "some other area" of Ohio, Yes I am being petty lol.

adding "only" 668 people is better than losing over 5,000. You just can't keep Cbus down. The ONLY city not in the sunbelt that did not lose population among those top 15 cities. San Antonio Phoenix Fort Worth Jacksonville Austin And Columbus! And I think Intel coming will keep those numbers looking good-for us, that is. *trying to diss us with that "only" added in...please. And after the original mistake even. smh.

Good Lord, they have an article on Columbus Underground* and it shows a pic of an outdoor seating area just below the sign on the top of the building facing downtown. That will be around 100 meters up. That will be a must-see attraction for this building. I love that with this, Continental Center, etc that we are getting some outdoor areas high up with great views. https://columbusunderground.com/new-name-construction-timeline-unveiled-for-north-market-tower-bw1/ You can see it with some landscaping also evident on the second pic of the original post about the latest on this project posted today. *edit...why is it that people have to leave the weirdest comments on CU? lol. Complaints about the retail and that is basically that the building could be the next in the Poltergeist series if they are not careful lol. *respect the graves and move the bodies too!!!*... I mean yeah I get it but that is all you have to remark about?

I really would not put what is going up here as just a skywalk. If it is opened up and expanded with seating, plants, etc. it is really more of an elevated park IMO. And as mentioned earlier Nationwide has a perfect pair of them leading to the Hyatt that would make fantastic expanded elevated Parkways. Some of the rest that are prominent will hopefully bite the dust in the not too distant future. Some of them are quite ugly lol-like the tall one over High at the Courthouse complex that is now gone(good riddance).

Up thread on 3/11 there is a mention of 382 feet(an upgrade from the previous height). DevolsDance posted it and it appears to be the official height released at that time.

I got so excited when I brought up this site and saw the recent posts on the side and it was all about this tower and I knew something big was up! Let's Go!!!!!!! I like the name of this now and also that the signage and whatever else is sticking up at the top will be architectural and add to the building's height. I wonder if that is why it got that 30 foot bump in height? Great News!!!

It is a 25 million dollar project but will take over three years? Just for a 4500 foot taxiway? That just seems like a long time to me. Otherwise great!-the sooner we get the new terminal the better.

Yes it is quite monotonous there. Maybe they will throw in a new Northbank condo tower somewhere? We can hope.

I don't think it is that bad really. It is brick and appears to have lots of windows and some very large windows as well. At least with brick they can't 'cheap out' and use tacky panels that look like they came from the new Walmart "Great Value" area of building materials. I guess the fenestration makes it okay with me. Now about that back side of the garage...

I really really want at least some version of a 30 story tower. I want it bad!

I haven't a clue regarding the digging by the subdivision. Maybe they are gonna erect a giant wall to block off Intel lol.* Seriously I hope they get bought out by Intel or someone else. I think most of them want to leave at this point, knowing the stuff that is coming to the properties around them. I bet they want to cash out now. *Never mind, they are not Clintonville or German Village lol.

With this and with the land on the other side of Clover Valley Road up to that Bermuda subdivision, they will be able to occupy around 2 square miles with no other demolitions of homes required. There will just be a mile and a half square of empty land for them.

Damn just let the developer put a nice 20 story building on the south side of this area with parking in a garage at the bottom above the ground level retail etc. and have them leave the rest alone. Hell there are buildings over 12 floors just down the street off Lane. What is the problem? A 20 story building would have much less negative problems regarding anything compared to the 7 story Sovietesque building taking up the entire site. I blame most of this on the stupid commission. And now look what the area is facing. smdh. They could ask for a 20 floor building with nice design and good materials to be an iconic landmark for the area, but no.... If they were willing to go 17 floors they would probably be willing to go taller and add more floors and settle for that and the retail addition along Norwich and Pearl.

Before I saw this I added that to my post. Great minds and all.. :)

We should really speak out and praise the handling of these garages and let the city know(they were built by the city, right?)that THIS should be the minimum standard for parking garages. They did a decent job here, and we should acknowledge that to them and push for this kind of standard for any future garages, city owned/built or not. NO. MORE. NAKED. UGLY. CONCRETE. PARKING. GARAGES! *and yes I forgot about the artwork! That and some landscaping/flowers/street trees should help even more. I also would love for the city to take the lead when it builds any more garages to make them like this but also leave the roof to be activated for use and landscaping. Or even solar panels would be nice. And to encourage the same from private developers. Parking garages (and often convention centers) are the ugly cancers of downtown development and it does not have to be this way.

I am glad too. A truly mixed use neighborhood should have, well, mixed uses and this manufacturing plant is one of those. Now they should be encouraged to actually make some minor adjustments to the outside of it so it actually looks like it is not abandoned and all lol-it does look like it is decaying. Some paint would do wonders-just enough so it is not such an eyesore. Can you see this with some cleanup on the outside areas and maybe painted in some really appealing dramatic, contrasting, interesting or cheerful colors? Even if it is only on the south end of it.

Wherever they have the retail they should have outdoor seating and patios up to the sidewalk, or maybe some planters and public art if the retail is not a restaurant or something. No excuse for those grasspatch/dogdumps where retail is facing the street. Otherwise thank God for no red brick.

What's wrong with older people lol.? Or do you mean you wish they had some more towers that were open to anyone(who could afford it)? *I personally am old but not able to afford these so yeah, they need something for everyone that is affordable also. They got rid of the idea of public housing in towers so now it is either wealthy people or nothing when it comes to highrise living. They should try a mixed income approach(even if it means not having amenities for the non wealthy and having to use a "poor door". I would use the poor door if it meant I could live in a nice area and in a highrise lol.

I can't get over how relatively decent looking the parking garages are. This should be a minimum standard for them, with other colors maybe to give them some variety. LOL I can't seem to focus on anything but the garages, but it all looks good. *they are a bit dark, but hopefully with some landscaping(I hope they put some decent street trees along them)and with some variety in the surrounding buildings they should be ok color wise. Compared to most of our naked concrete monstrosity garages, these look almost dare I say, classy? Are they going to paint the ugly rail bridges?

well the one just to the north of the pic is for office workers(buildings that have no parking(Rhodes Tower, etc.)and I think the ones at the left and bottom are for the hospital? Anyway that area is an ugly disgrace and I detest that crapitechture they erected after the Market/Mohawk "revitalization"(demolitions). Destroy it all, put one central parking garage hidden in the middle/partly underground with an activated/green rooftop, and build everything up around it to at least 10-12 floors and leave a few nooks and crannies for retail/parklets. We need a new billionaire "benefactor" for the city!(Wexner has not come through enough is gonna be gone soon)to come through with stuff like this. They can name it all after them lol. hmmmm....who could we attract?

Well as long as they have no proposal, there remains the chance that it at some time will go from parking lot to parklet or small retail shopping lane(or combo of both), right? Better nothing than some crappy one floor nothing building that will be there for decades. Trying to see the silver lining here I guess.

Do you mean the 66 space lot? I did not see your post until after I posted.

If they are building this parking garage why not get rid of the 66 street level parking spaces and make that a parklet-plaza? They could always add a floor to the garage right? Some trees, flowers/shrubs, maybe some art or a fountain, some benches for sitting, a nice small bricked plaza-why not? We lack these kind of small intimate public places. It would look much better in front of that grand old building instead of a bunch of cars/blacktop.

For a parking garage, this does not look that bad. Can someone let me know the exact location? I am not sure the listed address as shown on Google maps is the correct location.