3 Dog Pat

Thats a great shot, shows the size of the mall without the addition to Public Hall

WELCOME!

There is a lot of money in parking

I spent a few football Saturdays at the Sci Eng Library

^its hard to care when all he knows is losing

Another idea for an event (and this is the last one I present until you get some other ones) "This is how you start your own business" event Take a business, like a designer's boutique, (or any of the businesses currently in Tyler village) and have a booth/store type space for the interested public to see, and perhaps purchase items from. Then, in a neighboring booths have the companies / government agencies / small business incubators that the business owner used to be able to open the business. For example: Store 1: Boutique Store 2: A Web site designer: for this boutique (and how they can help other small businesses) Store 3: A contractor: how they worked with the boutique (and how they can work with other small businesses) Store 4: City of Cleveland - what permits were needed for the boutique (and....) Store 5: Civic innovation lab - how the boutique was helped by them (and....) Store 6: Key bank - how the boutique got a SBA loan (and....) Store 7: Kent State: How the boutique owner got the education to pull this off (and....) Basically, an open house for small companies and the groups that support them. Maybe the example companies could all be Tyler Village companies. It would need a fun component as well to draw people in, but its an idea off the top of my head.

You may also want to contact people at Virginia Marti college (I hope I spelled that right)

I had an idea in another tread about a "pop-up mall" in which local designers could set up a small temporary boutique for thier products

The thread is more properly titled "tOSU -scUM trash talk thread" Let 'er rip

Hate to revisit this, but, is there a better place for the fire sculptures? They seem distracting now from a very handsome southern entrance to E 4th

^its also zoning and permitting. Where do you put certain businesses in relation to other businesses.

This is the argument against permitting the trucks to roam wherever. I understand and appreciate the survival of the fittest argument, I just don't feel its a completely even playing field. Take this hypothetical: I want to open a restaurant in a gentrifying area, like Detroit Shoreway. I am going to spend between $100,000 - $500,000 to ether purchase an existing place, or remodel and repurpose a storefront. Now, I have to hire staff, pay for inventory, pay for utilities, permits, marketing, glassware, silverware, coffee machines, bathroom supplies, security alarms, insurance, etc. etc., etc., on top of rent. But, hey I am Punchin' Pat, and by opening this place, I have made the neighborhood more of a destination. I took a gamble on an area, and it is starting to pay off for me and my neighbor bars and restaurants. Its a struggle during the week, but Friday nights we do great, and so does the whole neighborhood thanks to (lets say) Capital theater. So, now I start to lose business to a half dozen food carts who drive to the neighborhood because Friday nights Detroit Shoreway is the place to be. They get to bounce around the city and go to where the crowds are. I can't pick up my restaurant and go to Case for lunch crowds. I can't run out of food and simply close for the night. I am tied to, and part of that neighborhood. If they cut into enough of my business on my busy night, I may not survive. Then I close, maybe a few of my other neighbors close, the neighborhood becomes less lively, the crowds find a new area of town to hit on a Friday night, and the food trucks follow them.

Columbus is everything a capitol city should be - a mixture of the state's best. That is the best tag line I have heard

NPR's marketplace highlighted the Healthline http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/09/pm-rapid-bus-transit-a-cheaper-alternative-to-rail/

Well, an argument can be made that a food truck could be unfair competition to a restaurant since they don't have to pay rent/mortgage etc.

nerd (I am just jealous)

They are taking over the entire west, I tells ya :)

DONT GET ME STARTED

BS Welding Engineering, The Ohio State University

If the river alterations do not happen, is it a dealbreaker for the site?

I had a lot of internships in my long long long college career, and I would always see what they have to offer. Sometimes they were the best, sometimes not. It is another resource.

Also, lean on GE for housing info. I am sure they will be able to help as well. Maybe you can inherit a place from interns who are leaving.

if they infill on one side of the river, can they cut into Scranton Peninsula, and kind of shift the river?

nice!