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Do not use that name! He is "the man who shall not be named" on this site! lol. Actually I don't really blame Austin(although it is fun to hate a bit on them anyway). I blame "the man who shall not be named" and I am glad he is out of here and they have to deal with him. All of this is coming about for us despite his attempts. I also hope we have some kind of lighting scheme. The chimney will be nice as planned.

Yes when you seen pics of the flood the river channel itself looks really narrow as in about as narrow as the river is now when not in flood. I also don't know if those structures survived and the widening of the river took place mainly on the opposite bank or if they were built right after.

over 700 units on 37 acres...almost 20 units an acre-and most of them apartments? I can almost feel the pearl clutching from 30 miles away! lol. There is going to be a run on fainting couches and smelling salts-and then when the shock is over the torches will be lit and the pitchforks will be out! lol.

I had never seen anything like this anywhere in the US and I was in my mid twenties. I had earlier in the 80's seen this in Canada though. I stopped at a convenience store in a small town on the way to Toronto and they had Time, People, and other magazines lined up and Playboy and Hustler were right there too for any kid to look at and not covered up in any way lol. I had never seen this before and I was kind of shocked. Times Square was just as bad-you could just look into a place from the sidewalk and see XXX stuff on display-you did not even have to go in to see it. The thing with the porn mags in the East Village...just plopping stacks of them on tables along the sidewalk with the XXX covers on them showing and everything...I was like "no way would this fly back home-somebody would be getting arrested!". Of course I also thought that tourists with kids would probably not be letting them just roam on their own around the east Village or Times Square back in 1989-1990. I never did see many kids around, and certainly not any unsupervised kids that I can remember.

Hurricane likely around NOLA by the weekend. "Delta" is forecast(right now and preliminary of course)to be a cat 2 or 3 near the LA coast by Friday morning. Something to watch.

Well damn!

Those huge fake cornices are not cutting it for me. And the first rendering is just bizarre-can they possibly stick any more Juliet balconies in there?-it makes the building look like it is covered in huge fake eyelashes. I would think UA would demand better. These renderings are worse than the original stuff shown IMO.

When I was there Times Square was still very nasty and had all the XXX stuff right up there close. I was shocked at how XXX material was just right there, anyone could walk in stores and see that stuff. I also remember being in the East Village and a vehicle pulled up and just started unloading gay sex magazines on to the street to sell. These were hard core XXX mags with nothing blocking the covers and they were just stacked out there on tables for anyone to look at. I was shook really. Plus all the drug dealers that would always approach me when I was out(everytime I walked to Christopher Street they would approach me). But I just politely declined and they were all cool and "well ok you have a good night" and all. Coming from Cbus at the time it was a bit of a shock. There were lots of homeless people sleeping on the subway grates(it was winter!)and I had never seen anything like it and I would wake them up and give them five or ten bucks. They just took the money, thanked me and went back to sleep. I never had a single problem with anyone in two months in that city and remember thinking the people were more friendly in NYC than in two other cities I had just visited and stayed in-Chicago and Toronto. I was only going to stay a month but liked it so much I spent two months there. Of course I visited all the sights and the observation decks at the ESB and the WTC. I have to admit I hated the WTC and that sterile Austin J. Tobin plaza filled with trash swirling about in the winds. Loved MOMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art and all the cool ethnic restaurants all over. And I really loved that the bars and clubs stayed open till at least 4am-why was that no a thing here? lol.

Dang just rereading this thread we all talked about this same stuff ten years ago. And the same potential is there and unrealized ten years later in a city adding so many people. If we could get some more density nodes along high like here in Olde North Columbus we could really make the "High Five" more of a reality and maybe actually get some kind of streetcar or something along that five mile stretch? The more density or dense nodes along that path, the better it would be for something like that.

Is this the same review board that got the Pavey project on the right track? If it is I have to give them a lot of credit for that.

Sounds good-but they need to incorporate a Rally's and a Taco Bell in some of those buildings like they did in the SN. Rally's greasy seasoned fries are some of the best fast food-bad for you-but you don't care stuff around. And I have thought the exact same thing about the area behind Hounddogs. A garage big enough to service several nearby buildings and doing the same on some parcel on the other side of the street. Stick another one right across the street against the alley and another one farther down-there are a number of whole blocks along High that have nothing historical at all. Even at my old age I would love to live in that area if this happened. I can't imagine they would have a lack of interested tenants. There is just so. much. potential!

This pic really does show just how little of even the central area of NYC is taken up by skyscrapers. I cannot wait to see 9 Dekalb be a part of this. It will be my 2nd favorite in the city after the Chrysler Building I think. I can't believe you mentioned that movie-I loved it! and visited NYC only a couple of years after that and it was great-the crime rate was bad but I never felt any danger and would wander about lower Manhattan late at night and never had a problem. I think it was a lot grittier then of course. I remember I stayed for several months, half at a friends place just off Washington Square and the rest at the Washington Square Hotel(50 bucks a night and I remember being appalled at how 700 square feet just off of Washington Square was just under $1,000 dollars a month-so expensive! lol.)

^^ I agree this area has so much potential it is crazy. How is this area Nimbywise? I know this was an independent town/suburb at one point, it has such a "big" feel compared to the areas above and below it on High. It seems like a natural "node" of higher density development-if the residents will allow it that is. *Plus Hounddog pizza and a Rally's! lol.

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Why did she even mention them then? She is the one who brought up the 27 letters. *ok I do agree that it is ugly and bulky on the south side of it after looking some more at the CU article pics. Smh this thing has been as problematic as the First/Price behind High one.

They should just put the height in the front toward High while retaining the frontage of the old buildings by proposing a 25 story tower.

quelle surprise!

Yeah the underground parking is great. They can do it here-but not someplace like downtown? hmmmm... I also wish I knew what the were thinking about for the second part farther south. I like everything they have depicted for the upper first part-the townhouses look cool with the top floor outdoor spaces. So much going on in Italian Village.

This all looks great.

They did good today. ? *and no interceptions!!!

It is just. so. UGLY! Gawd why did they build it like this? I want a sinkhole to develop under the foundation and cause it to be ruined and have to be torn down.

But why do they even have that "thing" in these categories? Who was promoting that building? Nobody wants to be a part of that!

You just had to pull me into this huh? They should keep you at "Rhodes Tower" status FOR LIFE! *evil laugh* Enjoy being that hideous building forever! "Think" about that lol And I started posting more really cause I am stuck in self-imposed quarantine pretty much so time on my hands and all.

It does...but again with the street being torn up, the pandemic, and not knowing what day or the time of day it was taken, it can be expected. I can't see a single person...are there people eating under those umbrellas? Life after people, Columbus Ohio 2020.

^^ Why can't Columbus mandate parking garages done more like that?