Toddguy

Hmmmm...can you elaborate on this? Seriously this is something I really don't know anything about. If they really could not do it until recently I would really be interested in understanding why. I know that with Franklinton it took the floodwall and hitting a certain amount of growth and expansion after that, but I am not familiar with anything about the river. Does it have anything to do with the massive sewer project we had to dig underground?

This makes things a bit better-especially the last paragraph. I just hope the proposal is a bold one.

Please keep us informed! Five whole floors...in Clintonville? The pitchforks and torches will be out!

I know! Just looking at the pics...well...I just have to control myself! lol It has taken decades! Finally!!!! And why...WHY!!! Did it take us sooo long to get rid of the damn dam and lower the Scioto and get rid of the sewage sedimentation pond we had there for nearly a century?

Nice but way too many earth tones. It makes one long for good old Columbus orange/red brick. Does it all have to be so drab? It will look permanently cloudy-even sunlight will not liven it up.

This is so embarrassing on so many levels. Of course my mind immediately goes to the gutter and sees the strong famous NYC landmark BBC and then there is Ohio-a pinkish little gherkin! lol. Ohio, where office space is cheaper and we have little *****! *Wait, it does say "Ohio is for leaders"...so yeah if they are talking about our leaders, then yeah the little ***** thing probably applies for most- and given they are little RED *****.

I am not even concerned about this. At least they saved the large area to the west aside as area for "future development". Hopefully something taller will be built there.

Is there a height or a number of floors set for the hotel?

It is in a good place for what they are asking for IMO-right across from Kroger, right by High. The massing looks fine to me-it will all come down to materials. 150 units stuffed into that relatively small space is what we need in prime locations, right? Grocery and a Circulator right there, uber, etc. You would not need to have a car here/could get by without a car here(for all of you in your relative youth and all). *The existing stuff is hideously ugly anyway. I love the density coming up in the area south and east of campus. It is like a light and day difference to the 80's and will only make the area even more vibrant and alive.

Well they both could have been homo and all they would have needed would be*trying not to be too graphic*but have Adam get himself off and stick the "stuff" inside Eve(with her consent of course)...no turkey basters back then and all. They would not even need to have sex together. Gays have been having kids(in all kinds of different ways)since...well...maybe not Adam and Eve but probably pretty close. How about... ADAM AND EVE AND ADAM AND YVES ? *and you were right to sort of call this out. It was kind of wrong to fight homophobia with something that was kind of heterophobic-not a good look on my part. My bad.

Well we should be ok as long as they don't put all of their eggs in one basket-and don't do the Texas thing of not making things suitable for the weather. I saw in the Dispatch the other day(I don't get that rag but my 93 year old father still does get the actual newspaper delivered so I look at it when I am there)and they are also planning a windfarm with about 75 wind turbines that will be between 400 and 600 feet tall near Bucyrus. I would rather have the solar panels than that, but it is all good and renewable energy. Ohio is getting known for it's solar panel stuff anyway-I saw something about it on the BBC of all places. And regarding the development around West Jeff(residential and retail) about 125 housing units are planned for infill in an area completed surrounded by other subdivisions(an empty field is all it is). The rest is between the two creeks east of the town proper but all of the water, sewer, stormwater, etc. infrastructure has already been put it, they have upgraded everything so the village/town/city can handle the growth, and some land and 142 will buffer it from Little Darby Creek(which it will be closer to). I don't think if violates any of the Darby Accord or anything. Now on the other side with the warehouse sprawl or things around London, I don't know about that. I wish they would just finish Keny Blvd. already and take it on over to 56 though.

Yes I know the Darby Plain and all, but it is only a small fraction of the farmland. And urban growth is limited and controlled-again what is going in has to meet certain standards especially related to drainage and any growth again is just a small fraction of the actual area. Most will continue to remain productive farmland. Now how this will all work and play out(including snow removal, etc.)will be interesting. Given all of the money in taxes, the power generation, and any other economic growth associated with this(likely occurring in a rather small area near 70) I would question rather farming is the highest and best use at least from an economic and development standpoint. Again at most this will be 15 square miles at most out of a land area of 466 square miles, of which around 400 square miles are farmland. This will take away only 3-4 percent of that farmland. Just sayin'. *And a good amount of that farmland is just sitting and not being farmed either.

^^ Downtown Columbus will finally look like it has a river running through it, rather than beside it. And the stuff coming up in East Franklinton will only help that perception.

^^ There is literally nothing there in that stretch along 29 between West Jeff and Mechanicsburg. The land is almost all flat empty farmland-especially on the southwestern side of the road. I guess there is still plenty of farmland left in Madison County(plenty of it fallow)-it does make up I believe at least 75 percent of the County. Ten or fifteen square miles in that empty area gone will probably be more than made up for by the benefits. Plus they won't be farming on the land underneath so no chemical/pesticide/fertilizer drainage into the Darby watershed. It is also close to 70 and several interchanges. OSU and Batelle are not far away in Madison County either-maybe they can get involved with some bio-ag-tech stuff around it and 70? What I do wonder about, is what will be there instead? What will they have under and around the panels? So many questions. *Amazon, the other warehouses out there past West Jeff proper, and the road construction on 70 has made Main Street in West Jeff a headache during rush hour as many people apparently commute from Cbus. There needs to be more housing in and around West Jeff! They have plans for over 1,000 plus new housing units within the village limits-let's get to it! Make this village a proper city finally and add a couple thousand new residents(and businesses like a real supermarket-looking at you Kroger).

I want to get a T-shirt made that says.. ADAM AND YVES AND ADAM AND EVE!

The Cicadas are fading away. Finally. Good riddance. ^^ Lol I don't get Pamela, I get "Gwen". "Hi Gwen." "Gwen is that you?".... *Deep voice* "No there is no Gwen at this number please don't call again." Fifteen minutes later, different incoming number... "Hi is Gwen there?"

I LOVE these renders-especially when you compare the height to the Atlas building which is over 160 feet tall.

Ok Time Out for you-go sit in the corner.

Oh ok never mind. If it was Higher.com they could expand the proposed liquor area to include legal weed smoking. But such is life. Soon enough as people move down Nationwide Blvd to the Stadium they will be "goin' down tha low" I guess.

Well the field is dug out and sunken, so Lower.com Field is not so bad I guess. It will also be sort of low profile once all of Astor Park gets built in and the triangle gets developed along with the area south of the stadium below Nationwide Blvd to 33.

I don't know about any planned uses for it, but it appears on every render of Astor Park, and is there in the plan for the park along the river. It is identified as an abandoned pumping house/station and is apparently owned by the city of Columbus. I wonder what the are planning for it?

Lol. It is not that bad really. Just never go into that upmost capsule observation area(if they still have it)on a windy day. Good God, that was terrifying. That part is not reinforced concrete.

They do. And if you want to see the damn Cicadas, they are already out in force this morning. Every surface has at least one on it. They have two different sounds...a roar and then a more close up squeaky noise. I can hear the roar in the distance already so this afternoon will probably be intolerable-which is why I am spending the day away from home! lol. I am not going to wish any more harm on them(like enjoying seeing them in spider webs)because when I came into the house last time yesterday evening I happened to brush my head and a damn spider fell off on my desk! Karma I guess so I have made peace with the invaders, my Cicada Overlords.

Take a drive over to one of the Darby Creeks. There are woods that lead from one of the creeks right up to where I am. You will certainly see plenty. Come see them-and kill them. That is my view of them now.

Well I am nearby in Jefferson Township and they are everywhere and I have officially reached peak Cicada. Now that I know the females just love to lay their eggs in fruit tree branches, thus devastating the branches, I want them all dead. They are all over my fruit trees. I was going to have some peaches and apples-not anymore. The squirrels have been so crazed trying to get at the Cicadas they have knocked nearly every one off. I am sure the pear tree will be damaged as well-and it had a huge fruit set this year. I was out and sprayed my dwarf columnar apple tree(maybe 15 feet high and 4 feet around)and hundreds of them flew out. There are many of them dead and crushed in the road-I don't know if they died and fell out of the trees or, given their apparent mass stupidity, decided the road was a nice warm place to lay down. Every tree, shrub, bush, flower pot, every surface, has at least one of them sitting on or clinging to it. I am just hating them knowing what they will do to my fruit trees. I smiled when I saw how full the spider webs were of their carcasses. f*ck these f*cking f*ckers. They are even louder today. *The only saving grace is that I have been registering them to vote-Democrat of course.