Toddguy

Thanks we posted the same stuff at the same time.

Where to you get your information from? Columbus metro est. 2020: 2,138,946 Austin metro est. 2020: 2,295,303 Columbus CSA est. 2020: 2,541,313 Austin CSA est. 2020: I don't even see that there is one? Please have your facts straight.

Well if London is starting to get you down, just think of West Jefferson and you won't feel so bad. Two main shopping options-Family Dollar and Dollar General smh. I pray to(insert whatever here)that they at least build that subdivision and get some sort of Kroger.

Three days now! lol.

It really is sad that in a town of 10,000 people there is not a single good sit down restaurant. The Chinese place by Kroger and the other one on the east side of town by the tracks are both "meh". I think they are planning on a "real" restaurant near that new development along Keny Blvd. London is about 88% non-hispanic white as of the last census.

Well it is closed and looks like they are going to have to do something. Either raise the barriers or install one this one cannot get through but is not like being in a jail cell. This whole thing was really a mistake IMO. It is an ugly stairway to nowhere and looks alienating as hell. No wonder people choose to commit suicide there. I suppose they could enclose most of it in high transparent walls(outward facing and inward facing)... but then you have problems with air circulation not to mention the grimy nasty handprints that would be everywhere! I remember that from the WTC indoor observation deck-nasty grimy handprints all over the windows really took away from the views. And outside you were too far away from the edge to really get the real feel of it.

Filling in time during quarantine, I became hooked on dance video on Youtube. I started having favorites to the point where my old self created an instagram account just so I can follow some of them and see what they are up to lol. I have never had any real interest in any kind of dance(besides liking to dance when I went out to clubs when younger and with a little alcohol in my system usually.) *In this video, the lead in the first group(the choreographer who does an aerial flip at the end of the routine)is 45 years old! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So ethereal and stunning! I love watching them train...in heels! plus I like this music lol.

The problem with this discussion is that unless hard facts and data can be posted that directly links(causation not correlation, etc)things between a particular culture or politics to business and economic growth or stagnation everything just degenerates into political bickering. Even if I agree with this, where is the data to back it up? It is just an opinion? Redder and redder leading to being backwards is just an opinion(even if I agree with it). It derails the thread and is not Business or economic news.

Reminds me of Idiocracy in a way. lol.

Great photos. Such a diversity of buildings and so many sites with such potential. Good riddance to the parking crater off Public Square(as mrnyc mentioned) and the new SWH building will look so good(to me at least-I really like the size and design)and will really balance out the skyline. A bit jealous of the plethora of great looking older large historic buildings but hey, it is what it is. When I look at the river area all I see are development opportunities and future park space. Go Ohio!

I saw somewhere(maybe lurking on citydata?)that there will be some info coming out on the 12th? I just need more of this kind of data to obsess over. I admit I love it when this kind of info is released and can be pored over and analyzed to death lol. Looks like the consensus is between 902,500 and 917,500 and I agree with this. I wonder also about the suburbs? Dublin will almost certainly pass 50,000 right? Also (not a suburb!!!lol)Newark should be over that mark as well....just ten days away..... *to me this reminds me of getting excited as a kid because a new almanac was coming out and I was waiting to get it. lol

Looking good. I need to get down there and check it out for myself in person. I can't wait until this central Peninsula section is finished and Gravity2 is up. Thank God they dropped Buckingham and their anemic plans.

That the commission has a problem with this is the real problem. They use a unique way of engaging the community to get something that is satisfactory to the community and then this? Unbelievable. This is right by High Street and across from Kroger! If no density here, then where? SMH. This is a case where if the commission does not get it's head out of it's you-know-where, it should just be overridden and disregarded by the city. This is not too dense for this prime location. I won't even dignify the "flavor" part with a response. This looks like a well thought out project that appears to look good per the renders and I just can't get how they are opposed to it given the input on the design and the location. What is up with the commission on this???

The. Absolute. Horror. And to make it worse, the city is bathed in brown like all the buildings were smeared with sh*t-just to try and make this hyperboloid nightmare look even slightly less Gawdawful! *goes to pop some Xanax after seeing this thing...

Blue Serpent Bridge Covering was an awesome idea and would have been inconic as hell. I still think we should get it-but maybe a smaller version over a Scioto River pedestrian bridge(we really need a couple of those, unlike many of the horrors that have just been mentioned.)

I am really starting to hate Austin.

^^So all of Franklin County only added about 60,000 occupied housing units in 9 years? The average household size in 2010 was 2.38, so that would suggest an addition of about 142,000 for the whole county in 9 years. Columbus was at about 787,000 in 2010. For Columbus to have reached 900,000 then nearly 115,000 of those 142,000 would have to have been added to Columbus instead of suburbs or unincorporated areas in the County? An addition of only 60,000 or so occupied housing units seems to suggest we may be overestimated...? Am I getting this wrong? Was there significant growth in the Fairfield and Delaware sections of Columbus that could add some to the total for the city? Also at that rate of addition of units and reoccupation of vacant units then the 10 year total would be about 66,500 units, and an addition to Franklin County of about 160,000 people? Would there be a reason to think that there would be a change in the number of people per occupied unit in the last ten years? Would more Gen Z and Millennials leaving home later because of financial difficulties(student loans, etc.)cause an increase or keep the number stable? What about immigration?-has it declined(and the larger household sizes that tend to go with it?) So many questions! I don't want to wait another two weeks lol. What do you think? Please show me where I am wrong as I do not want us to end up with less than predicted! lol. If we are below 900,000 for 2020 I will be disappointed I will admit.

Don't even mention that atrocity! What a scam that was-that guy actually got paid a lot of money to design that hideous Three Mile Island looking thing-and then had the audacity to suggest it be covered in vines and stuff-in Ohio!-as if it would not look bad enough as it was. Why not haul out Brushstrokes In Flight from wherever that is and put it right in front of the Vets Memorial...Maybe we can buy back that hideous 100 meter Columbus statue from wherever that is too and plop it downtown-right next to a Ferris Wheel-as if that has not been done enough and would be empty most of the time. lol. *You deserved the poison vote for even thinking of that monstrous thing. I am having PTSD now! lol.

Well we will be finding out August 16th, right?

This makes me glad to be an OSU college football fan first, and an NFL fan second. At least I won't wake up some day to find that the Buckeyes will be moving/or threatening to move to Boise or Raleigh or wherever. My sympathies to Buffalo-a fine city.

^^ Great pics...but...now I am longing for a 900 foot cylindrical observation tower directly across from the Statehouse next to the old Dispatch building!

The whole point is to see who is closest, so yeah it can be merged or closed after we find the answer and maybe can discuss it. But yeah some of this talk is getting off the topic. There is no need to bring up other cities and compare them to Cbus in this thread. *With the way estimates can be off, and with the mess the pandemic caused, we may be surprised on the high end or the low-kind of why I made the thread-to see if most of us get a surprise! lol. There could also be a thread somewhere about "where are all the extra people from the census at?"

This kind of thing sucks doesn't it! I feel ya! lol

^^ Wow thanks for all of that information. I will have to figure out where they added those extra 157 units within the 1.9 square mile census designation for Lincoln Village. I am drawing a blank right now. And it all seems to point to one thing-we need more housing!

I love this! the forgotten "Triangle" now has a name-The Crew Triangle!!!! Long live the Crew Triangle!-and may it be developed and connected to another area(either west or north) in the future!