June 5, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, ColDayMan said: Rogue Fitness plans to expand in Milo-Grogan Rogue Fitness has plans to expand its Milo-Grogan presence. Plans submitted to the city show the fitness equipment company's intent to expand behind its existing Cleveland Avenue facility onto East 2nd Avenue. The site is three parcels – one is vacant and the others have single-family homes on them. Rogue wants a driveway and manufacturing access at the site, the city documents show. The documents don't say whether the houses would be razed. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/06/05/rogue-fitness.html Would be kind of cool if they turned them into Airbnbs and vip housing for the Arnold week.
June 5, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, wpcc88 said: Would be kind of cool if they turned them into Airbnbs and vip housing for the Arnold week. Yeah I hope they don’t demo them. That area needs all the housing that is there. Seems weird they need to add a drive, it looks like Grant goes right to the factory.
June 6, 20241 yr On 6/5/2024 at 1:37 PM, ColDayMan said: Rogue Fitness plans to expand in Milo-Grogan Rogue Fitness has plans to expand its Milo-Grogan presence. Plans submitted to the city show the fitness equipment company's intent to expand behind its existing Cleveland Avenue facility onto East 2nd Avenue. The site is three parcels – one is vacant and the others have single-family homes on them. Rogue wants a driveway and manufacturing access at the site, the city documents show. The documents don't say whether the houses would be razed. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/06/05/rogue-fitness.html I’ll maintain that Rogue should have never built there. It’s just as good as slapping an interstate through the community. One, large monolithic building and sea of parking that could have gone elsewhere. And now expanding? When will the madness of Abbot and Rogue end???
June 6, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, columbus17 said: I’ll maintain that Rogue should have never built there. It’s just as good as slapping an interstate through the community. One, large monolithic building and sea of parking that could have gone elsewhere. And now expanding? When will the madness of Abbot and Rogue end??? The site was always industrial. Before Rogue, it was the site of a 38 acre Timken Roller Bearing factory. In fact, the entire corridor around the railroad was heavy industry. No one wants to see smoke belching factories downtown anymore, but Rogue is fairly clean compared to days of old. I also seem to recall that Rogue wanted to hire people from the neighborhood (which would be a good thing) when they announced the new facility, but I may be misremembering.
June 6, 20241 yr 16 minutes ago, Pablo said: The site was always industrial. Before Rogue, it was the site of a 38 acre Timken Roller Bearing factory. In fact, the entire corridor around the railroad was heavy industry. No one wants to see smoke belching factories downtown anymore, but Rogue is fairly clean compared to days of old. I also seem to recall that Rogue wanted to hire people from the neighborhood (which would be a good thing) when they announced the new facility, but I may be misremembering. I do hope the Rogue stadium gets built at some point. Would be sweet to see the CF Games hosted in Cbus in the future. I really hope they still end up building their apartments as well.
June 6, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, columbus17 said: I’ll maintain that Rogue should have never built there. It’s just as good as slapping an interstate through the community. One, large monolithic building and sea of parking that could have gone elsewhere. And now expanding? When will the madness of Abbot and Rogue end??? It's absolutely nothing like slapping an interstate through the community. Not even close. They bring a ton of workers to the area every day which can support surrounding commercial businesses and even residential units. As development/redevelopment continues east along 5th, I think we'll start to see the positive impact of Rogue's existence. There are some vacant lots on Cleveland and 5th that would be great for affordable/workforce housing. It's walking distance to some blue collar jobs at Rogue, located along good bus routes, and in the same area as retail once it's hopefully built up.
November 26, 2024Nov 26 Much needed improvements continue on E 2nd Ave (from St Clair Ave to 6th St) Phase one was east of Cleveland Ave and it looks mostly complete Some of the crumbling infrastructure is being ripped up now west of Cleveland Ave as phase two begins!
November 27, 2024Nov 27 Looks like the on street parking areas are on permeable pavers, allowing storm water to be stored beneath the pavement. I think this is similar to what's being installed on Weber in Linden.
January 18Jan 18 Columbus-based Rogue Fitness expanding Milo-Grogan facility Rogue Fitness will start construction on an expansion of its Milo-Grogan facility this year. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2025/01/17/rogue-expand-milo-grogan.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 18Jan 18 45 minutes ago, ColDayMan said: Columbus-based Rogue Fitness expanding Milo-Grogan facility Rogue Fitness will start construction on an expansion of its Milo-Grogan facility this year. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2025/01/17/rogue-expand-milo-grogan.html Wonder how many more jobs this will create, and I wish the city wasn’t being stupid about the arena they wanted to build.
March 27Mar 27 Second Avenue infrastructure upgrades continue as the current phase rebuilds Second Ave from Cleveland Ave to N Grant Ave. The next phase, which I'm most looking forward to, will move west on 2nd from N Grant to 6th St *the entire scope of the project is from St. Claire Ave to approximately 6th St
April 20Apr 20 I drove through Milo-Grogan this evening and while it's not much to look at, it was one of the very few older structures left in the neighborhood. It is now completely demolished. (Location Cleveland Ave and 2nd Street). Also there is a sign up across from Auto Zone on 5th Ave for a newly constructed Moo Moo's car wash. I really had high hopes for this neighborhood to develop into an extension of Italian village. Adding a car wash on 5th probably isn't the best fit for a neighborhood the city is trying to revitalize. Edited April 20Apr 20 by sono4315
April 21Apr 21 I think I lost hope in the city doing it's best to push for a great urban neighborhood with a major job hub when they got worried about parking for the Rogue Arena. I think it kind of falls into the same issue of Olentangy River Road in that they haven't pushed to do a targeted rezone in the area fast enough which allows these car centric, drive thru places to make a foothold in places that should be transitioning to more residential urban areas, especially along the current and future major bus infrastructure. Because I agree, this has, soon to be had, the potential to be a neat urban island that transitions to Italian Village to the West and South Linden to the North. Edited April 21Apr 21 by DTCL11
April 21Apr 21 14 minutes ago, DTCL11 said: which allows these car centric, drive thru places to make a foothold in places that should be transitioning to more residential urban areas, especially along the current and future major bus infrastructure. This also hurts because those places never seem to close. They just sit for years and years, and are hard to get replaced once they are there.
April 21Apr 21 14 minutes ago, DTCL11 said: I think I lost hope in the city doing it's best to push for a great urban neighborhood with a major job hub when they got worried about parking for the Rogue Arena. I think it kind of falls into the same issue of Olentangy River Road in that they haven't push to do a targeted rezone in the area fast enough which allows these car centric, drive thru places to make a foothold in places that should be transitioning to more residential urban areas, especially along the current and future major bus infrastructure. Because I agree, this has, soon to be had, the potential to be a neat urban island that transitions to Italian Village to the West and South Linden to the North. It's pretty much a clean slate in that area and the city has to go and approve a car wash. There is the same exact car wash 2 exits up at Hudson and 71. Now I'm wondering what will happen to the empty Church's chicken and the demolished Wendy's.
April 21Apr 21 33 minutes ago, sono4315 said: It's pretty much a clean slate in that area and the city has to go and approve a car wash. There is the same exact car wash 2 exits up at Hudson and 71. Now I'm wondering what will happen to the empty Church's chicken and the demolished Wendy's. My money is more drive-thrus or car centric. The thing is, the city can't really stop these developments if they fall under the existing zoning. That's where doing some targeted zoning updates to this area and olentangy river road to eliminate these commercial spots may have helped prevent the explosion of drive thrus but the city can't really just say no for the sake of saying they want something different if the existing applicant meet zoning regulations.
May 2May 2 The 2nd Ave Infrastructure project continues to move west from Cleveland Ave to 6th Street.This portion (west of Grant Ave) rebuilds the crumbling walls, which are now a thing of the past!
May 15May 15 Had a chance to walk E 2nd Ave from Ohio Brewing to Cleveland Ave recently to get a few more looks at the progress along 2nd Ave
May 15May 15 Now do this for the whole city LOL! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
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