Posted March 21, 201114 yr Yellow Brick Pizza & the Angry Baker Still vacant... King Lincoln Infill & Rehab Latta Avenue Condos National Road Condos Miller Avenue Vacancy More Miller Even more Miller Average Infill Linwood Rehab Another Linwood Rehab And another Linwood Rehab Livingston Streetscaping Nationwide Expansion
March 21, 201114 yr Great stuff going on! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 28, 201114 yr I see you also got some of what the city considers the "Near South" (basically just an extension of the Near East south of I-70 and east of Parsons), which has seen considerably less impovements than the area just a straight shot east of Downtown. Aside from the hospital expansion and a couple of small residential pockets (Old Oaks and Ganther's Place) it looks the same as it did years ago, but now with less buildings (the Reeb building is gone). OTE and KL have seen some further improvements, but I lived next to the Parsons area there four years ago and only four new businesses (Yellow Brick Pizza, Voda, Portico, and the Angry Baker) have opened there, while there hasn't been a new business in King-Lincoln since The Book Suite opened in 2009. Columbus, except for the very few stepping forward, must have some of the most timid urban pioneers. I mean, really now, we can expect *maybe* one business in each neighborhood per year? Give the Near East a decade at this rate and at least the few remaining commercial buildings on Oak St will be filled in, while a handful of places will open on E Main. Maybe Mt Vernon Ave will get some attention in the meantime. E Livingston and Whittier will fare much worse, even though that shouldn't be the case.
March 30, 201114 yr Nice to see an area with so much potential finally getting some sustained much-needed attention. Great photos as well, ink!
July 15, 201113 yr Im really liking that King-Lincoln stuff. I remember driving through there and being suprised. These remind me of Louisville-style houses: ...with the way the dormer is pulled to the front so it is flush with the front facade. Thats a common trick you see in Louisville foursquares.
July 15, 201113 yr Heres a question to those who are familiar with both places... ...does Columbus seem more 'brick' to y'all than Dayton. It seems that in Dayton they started out building in brick then switched to mostly wood construction sometime in the 1870s or 1880s (except for the more elaborate bourgouis housing). In Columbus it seems they continued to build in brick later. Or is this just my imagination?
July 15, 201113 yr No, it's not your imagination. Columbus is easily more of a brick city than Dayton. As you said, central Dayton neighborhoods are mostly brick but the majority of the city is wood-frame (almost Great Lakes in that sense). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 16, 201113 yr Every time I ask about this in Cleveland I'm told there's a brick shortage, or something to that effect. But then I see pictures of new construction in other cities, including Columbus, that uses brick (and even ornamental stone) like it's no problem at all. Maybe Cleveland and Dayton are home to the world's best vinyl siding salesmen. Or the world's worst architects.
July 18, 201113 yr Heres a question to those who are familiar with both places... ...does Columbus seem more 'brick' to y'all than Dayton. It seems that in Dayton they started out building in brick then switched to mostly wood construction sometime in the 1870s or 1880s (except for the more elaborate bourgouis housing). In Columbus it seems they continued to build in brick later. Or is this just my imagination? I wonder if the proximity to nelsonville and the hocking valley had anything to do with the amount of brick structures in columbus compared to dayton and cleveland. Columbus also had a large influx of german immigrants,as well as cincy, that were skilled bricklayers and emulated the architecture of their home country. I know dayton had german immigrants too so it would probably be interesting to see data about immigration patterns coinciding with architecture. I know that doesn't explain recent brick construction being minimal in cleveland. Who knows?
July 18, 201113 yr I'm thinking the Appalachia connection to Nelsonville/Athens played a big part in Columbus' brick architecture. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 24, 201113 yr cleveland had a hell of a lot more brick apts if not housing than you would think looking at it today.
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