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^is it an indoor golf course?

Nice to see legacy adds instead of LCC....

^Interesting. Surprised OSU ranks so highly---above NYU and UC Berkeley. Also surprised (and disappointed) how low CSU ranks on the list--161st.

^Interesting. Sounds like a way for Columbus-based Ohio education commission to allow only a Columbus-based school to be the one-and-only highest ranking research university to ensure prestige and recognition only goes back to Columbus, and with government backing to maintain that......sounds kindof corrupt, or at least self-serving.....though jonoh81 will probably say it should be that way for whatever reason!

^"UCincy could become Ohio's second large public research university, but OSU blocks it." How does OSU block it?

^For Ohio, at least, I don't think all research money should be at one school as it instantly compromising the quality of the other universities. In Ohio, which of the schools is considered the best one (like UM in Michigan or Berkeley in the UC system)? I know its not Akron, CSU, or Youngstown. But other than those schools, I don't know much about the other universities.

very cool. from the planning document, "establish use as a hotel with 24 guestrooms, one dwelling unit and a 1,250 square foot bar". Are dwelling units common in hotels? would the management/maintenance person live there so he/she is always on site?

^where would a hotel be? And who is 'hosting' the bidding? The city? a developer?

^Cool. Will check it out.

I'd say AMS.

^johoh81, why the denial? Does acknowledging that getting a handout from Cleveland and Cincinnati to two major institutions in Columbus lessen the 'greatness' of Columbus? Get over it. No one else seems to care. 1. State employee salaries come from all corners of the state. 2. If OSU employees are state employees, then you're missing thousands in your numbers above. If they are state employees on OPERS then its an even bigger deal. 3. Re money OSU gets from Cleveland and Cincinnati---and columbus (but Columbus is only a small proportion [no more than 20%] of the full state), OSU gets $525M (2018) (https://www.osu.edu/osutoday/stuinfo.php). By comparison state funds (from all over the state) to Cleveland State Univ is only $74M (2018) (page 13 of https://www.csuohio.edu/sites/default/files/FY18%20Budget%20Book.pdf).

If your 7% number is accurate, then take the number of jobs in Columbus MSA and take 7% of it. THAT is the number I'm exactly talking about. I'm not saying Cleveland is subsidizing Columbus Chipotle workers or Cincinnati is subsidizing Columbus McDonalds employees. And please, before you write again, do some reading on the state budget and learn where its funding comes from. As I've said many times now, excluding any federal funds, Ohio-sourced funds comes from ALL of the state, not just Columbus.

I know people *love* to make these claims, but I've never once seen anyone post any factual data to back this up. We do know from the BLS data that Government jobs in all 3-Cs exceed 100K, and the actual % of government to total jobs in any of them are just a few % points different top to bottom. I've never seen any data whatsoever that OSU is subsidized mostly from money outside of Columbus. Where is your "80-85%" number coming from? Federal jobs and city and county jobs are not relevant here. Cleveland would logically have more federal jobs than Columbus because its bigger. Now regarding the main point here. I don't have any OSU data. But state data is easier to get (in theory). Here's the logic: State employees eat in local restaurants, buy home repairs, buy homes, cars, etc. They play a big part in supporting and growing the local Columbus economy. MOST state employees live an work in Columbus---especially the higher paid ones. Yes there are state offices in other cities and interstate snow plow guys around the state. But the bulk of the state payroll is in columbus. Where does that money come from to pay that payroll? Ohio income tax and the commercial activities tax or other business taxes. Ohio's GDP is about $525B. Columbus's GDP is about $125B. So Columbus is about 24%. So 76% of the the money is coming from places outside of Columbus---like Cincinnati, CLE, Toledo, Youngstown, etc. So these other cities are supporting Columbus. A small piece trickles backs to payroll in other cities like snow plow guys, park rangers, BMVs, etc. the bulk--and higher paid salaries--are in Columbus.

^Despite the headline, the article spends more time talking about CLE real estate investors than those from out-of-state.

Well it can't be denied that OSU and the state government are major assets for Columbus that contribute to its growth. But it should be noted that those two institutions are subsidized heavily by people outside of columbus, that are in Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, etc. Probably 80-85% of the geographic subsidies to those organization come from outside of Columbus.

^Yes, the place looks really cool. Can one just stop in for a drink? That is, is there a bar ?

^Just curious, do other cities use local residents in this way or this innovative to Cleveland? Also, is anyone here considering signing up?

^ummmm...by that are you trying suggest there's money in Milwaukee than Cleveland? That's laughable. If Chicago has two stores already, you can't count Chicago money. There is far more money in CLE than Milwaukee--no matter how great of a town Milwaukee is. According to the US Dept of Labor--Real Personal Income -- 2015: Milwaukee MSA (Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI): $80.0B Cleveland MSA: $98.5B But since the Cleveland Ikea would draw at least from the CLE, Akron, and Canton MSAs (not to mention Sandusky, Ashtabula, and Youngstown areas), here's the total for CLE-Akron-Canton MSAs: $146.3B -- that's 1.8x the size of Milwaukee--almost TWICE the amount of money. [source, BLS, 2015]. I agree with whoever said it earlier: there's definitely something strange for Ikea when it comes to Cleveland. As a major company, you don't ignore a $150B market in preference for smaller ones unless there's good reason.

^Not sure what changed in Brooklyn over those five years. Its nice that the PD puts these data into clean lists, but the real value-add of the PD would be to provide some local insight/reporting to the federal numbers instead of just reformatting them for their web site.

Population growth/loss is fairly straightforward to calculate. Its Population Estimate Year = Population Original + Natural Increase/Decrease + Net migration. Natural Increase/decrease = Births - deaths Net migration = People moving into subject area less people moving out of subject area. Use these formulas to the numbers I posted two posts above. If you want an average per year, divide by 7.

^According to the Census Bureau's estimates, the change from 2010 to 2017 is as follows for Ohio: 121,879 - Total Population Change 179,914 - Natural Increase 1,004,081 - Births 824,167 - Deaths -54,642 Total Net Migration 137,973 - International -192,615 Domestic https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2017/demo/popest/nation-total.html

^If I recall correctly, IKEA requires 27-29 acres of space. Steelyard certainly has that. Steelyard would be perfect except not all of the highway traffic could easily see an "IKEA" sign as Ikea seems to like. But it would certainly be a great location for both IKEA and the city and the county.

^thanks. will do. Re Porter, I remember seeing a County highway plan once with Porter's name on it. Was really crazy---In addition to the Clark freeway plowing through Shaker, there were freeways everywhere. I remember one on the west side--running North-south approximately W. 75 that went straight south to Parma from the Shoreway---and I was told the reason the I-71 exit at W. 65/Denison is so strange (extremely wide median and left [vs. right] exit from I-71) was to be an interchange with that N-S highway. And there were other highways as well. So glad that that didn't happen.

^If what you say is true, then I stand corrected, I apologize. If so, I was incorrectly informed by others who are reliable sources who had told me that Krumholz was responsible for killing a downtown subway plan and returned related funding.