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175 South Third Street: ? Blue flash cube is better than black or *ugh* gold.

I have no idea really. I have just never liked the very dark glass on it-or black glass in general-with a few exceptions

^^ This should be put in the general business stuff on the city discussions as well as here. *Hey the other cities do it, right?

This. They don't need a friend or someone to love them-they have friends/loved ones for that...they need a strong leader who can contain all of the different "strong" personalities. They need an alpha type that they will respect, otherwise you get chaos. The new head coach needs to be a (sorry for mentioning him) Satan/Saban in this kind of situation. Someone to be feared and respected. JMHO.

It should be a requirement that if they take care of(remove)the black glass here they also have to remove it on the Hyatt.

Good! (for the renovation of this but also the possibly ten floor building to go behind it!)

Oof.

I saw somewhere where the black population of Columbus and Franklin County is increasing at a good rate. Ok it was city data forums(I am not a member but check it out sometimes. https://www.city-data.com/forum/general-u-s/3092490-black-demographic-growth-city-2010s.html Since 2010 Columbus has gained more blacks than Cleveland has lost apparently. Of course that is city limits only apparently-not the best measure. Metro wise it looks like of the 75 largest metros regarding percentage of black population in 2017, Columbus cracked the top 25 and Cleveland is at number 18. https://www.statista.com/statistics/432650/us-metropolitan-areas-with-the-highest-percentage-of-black-population/

Unfortunately "reasonably cautious" will get you tarred with the "pessimism brush" on this thread. *hush up cbussoccer!!!!

Ok duh I forgot there was a construction cam..even though I upvoted the post listing it ?! Thanks for the reminder.

There will never be 20,000 residential units at Easton nor will there ever be a 40 story tower and I will bet money on it! ? Pie in the sky dreaming!!! ? That 82 year old Les Wexner waxing rhapsodic about plans for 40 story towers and 20,000 residential units = Yes! it will get built.... ???? just trying to cool the thread down a bit...but the bet is for real! 100 bucks! ( of course I will probably be dead by the time it happens if it does indeed happen so good luck collecting... ? )

Any more aerial updates available on this anywhere online? Any new drone footage?

I disagree with your first line. I Know the meaning of what I said. You responded to my saying I was being insulted by basically insulting me again(of course that is how I see it.) This discussion has become unfriendly and has "attitude" IMO that is not conducive to any productive discussion, so let's just drop it, ok?-because the discussion is becoming problematic for the thread and for the board as a whole.

If you are going to be insulting then let's just end this dialogue. I am not here for it. ok?

They can be similar, but they also can be different: skeptical: not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations. pessimistic: tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen. These are NOT the same thing.

You can't be buying this hook line and sinker when it clearly states this is game changing, and then post this: yes what they are describing is game changing for urbanism-here is a quote from what you posted they are planning. That sounds game changing for urbanism to me for Easton. And yes I would LOVE to see this happen in my lifetime. But I am not going to put on the rose colored glasses just quite yet.

I am not being pessimistic...more like cautiously optimistic/hopeful. Do not misrepresent what people are saying. I never said I was being pessimistic at all. Just because someone does not immediately believe that 20,000 residences will be built along with 20-40 story towers just because an old rich guy who is not going to be around that much longer has said so does not make them a pessimist...more like a realist actually. The more progress they make towards this goal, then the more optimistic I will get. That will be moving from realistic to optimistic, ok? Promising 20,000 residences and 20 and 40 story towers is a lot to promise-the only thing we have had in central Ohio even remotely like that is around OSU. Outside of that there is ONE tower outside of the CBD that is 20 floors or more-Summit Chase in Grandview, and that is about 50 years old. I am listening to what he is promising, but also wondering how realistic it is for those promises to be carried out-especially since he will unfortunately not be around himself to see it through, and what has happened in Central Ohio in the past. Just saying and all. I appreciate and respect your enthusiasm and optimism, so try to respect that I have some doubts but also share the same hope that this does all come to fruition. Just because we wonder if this will come through or not does not mean we do not want it to come through.

When I see construction start on a 20 story(or more)building at Easton, then I will believe it. Until I see some evidence, I will remain at least somewhat skeptical. That is a lot of talk-and I hope that they come through with it-but I will need some evidence. JMHO. This is Cbus, and actions speak louder than words when it comes to development unfortunately *If they do all of this, I will be lauding them loudly and eating all of this skepticism of course.

I really do not understand why they are not building tons of residential. Could it be that they are afraid that if they build a ton of rental units, that at some point in time they might become occupied by(What Easton might consider)"undesirable elements" that could have negative consequences for Easton as a whole? I just do not get why they are not building dense housing close to/as part of an area that is a destination place like Easton is. And I agree it really has the potential to become a huge node in a multi-nodal Columbus and also the potential to be a focus of any kind of light rail(to connect it to other nodes like the CBD and the airport.) If you could get 20,000 housing units with 30,000 to 40,000 residents in a few square miles you could really have a dense enough population cluster to make light rail to say the airport and downtown really work both ways-residents commuting downtown and downtown residents commuting to lots of retail, etc. That connection would make it much easier to be carless in the CBD(along with improved mass transit busses or streetcars)in the downtown area itself-maybe more of the Cbus type cirulators and such.

^^ I wonder what the name will be? hmmm....

Per the Columbus Police Department's latest press release yesterday, there have been 98 homicides in Columbus this year as of 12/9. Looks about the same as last year probably ending between 100 and 105(last year was 103 I believe.) https://www.columbus.gov/Templates/Detail.aspx?id=2147486739

Yes I am hoping we can pull off the upset(we are the damn underdog.) And with Bama? I despise that devil-led team and will actually be pulling for TTUN!

A win is a win is a win. I just hopen OBJ's injury is not too severe-apparently an inguinal hernia or something like that? Not being able to practice till Fridays is probably hurting his ability to connect with Baker. Hopefully they can keep winning and maybe even pull a win over that stolen rat-team.

C'mon Browns! You can do it!

Thanks for posting this official map. Funny how some of the taller proposals(12 floors river and Rich, 12 floors Gravity 2, 30 floors Whittier Peninsula, 10 or so floors Westminster-Thurber, Jeffrey Park 12 floors etc.)are outside the official CBD. Also the new OSU hospital tower.