https://www.13abc.com/content/news/Bowling-Green-considers-DORA-to-boost-business-as-COVID-19-pandemic-looms-570644551.html

 

Bowling Green considers DORA to boost business as COVID-19 pandemic looms

bgsu maurer center cam:

 

 

https://www.bgsu.edu/business/maurer-center-live-video.html

2 hours ago, mrnyc said:

bgsu maurer center cam:

 

 

https://www.bgsu.edu/business/maurer-center-live-video.html

I am so glad to see this construction nearing completion. My office is just out of sight of the camera, and the construction noise the past three or four years from the renovation of those three early college buildings has been a PITA. I wish the new CoB building could have matched the architectural style of Hayes Hall though. 

^ i have a couple questions if you don't mind -- 

 

to confirm -- did they just tear down, what was it? hanna hall? and replace it with maurer?

 

also, what will become of the harshman quad site? any plans for a new quad dorm building there? 

 

harshman was i think 1200 students. do you think they made up for the loss of all that on-campus housing elsewhere on campus, like with the newer dorms? it seems bgsu has lost quite a bit of on-campus housing, no?

 

looking online i guess the new centennial dorm doesn't count because it replaced rodgers (and i see centennial is smaller than rodgers was too, by a couple hundred students, i think). just wondering about housing as i don't think the new falcon hts dorm makes up for harshman and the additional loss of a bit of rodgers populations. 

 

https://www.bgsu.edu/residence-life/comparison.html

I've heard Bowling Green has strong winter winds coming in from the flat land surrounding it.  I wonder if they could mitigate the wind by purchasing a ring of farmland around the town and use it to regrow forest/wetlands. Perhaps even moving the airport out further and replacing the current one with a large park.  Even if it wasn't completely effective against wind such a project could provide recreation and education opportunities.  just from google maps it doesn't look like there are a lot of natural areas for outdoor recreation in the immediate area. They could build a greenbelt trail encircling the town before sprawl makes it completely impossible

Edited March 17, 20214 yr by thebillshark

On 3/17/2021 at 7:08 AM, thebillshark said:

I've heard Bowling Green has strong winter winds coming in from the flat land surrounding it.  I wonder if they could mitigate the wind by purchasing a ring of farmland around the town and use it to regrow forest/wetlands. Perhaps even moving the airport out further and replacing the current one with a large park.  Even if it wasn't completely effective against wind such a project could provide recreation and education opportunities.  just from google maps it doesn't look like there are a lot of natural areas for outdoor recreation in the immediate area. They could build a greenbelt trail encircling the town before sprawl makes it completely impossible

 

 

^ oh man is that true about the winter wind there -- you don't forget that.

 

its flat as a pancake in nw ohio, so you can stop and lean on the wind it gets so bad.

 

and the snot freezes right up your nose -- its crazy.

 

as for more immediate parkland to the campus, you are also absolutely correct that it is a major missing piece and would be welcomed.

 

i saw they even got rid of the campus golf course -- no idea why, but its a shame.

 

as for the airport, it certainly could move north -- one time a small plane crashed into an off campus apartment building and killed people.

 

otoh, being so flat wood county is excellent for biking.

 

there are quiet country roads -- its nice, easy and while of course i didnt care or ride as an undergrad i really enjoyed it in grad school.

I never understood why BGSU hasn't put in more trees around to prevent the crazy winds.

I’ve become somewhat obsessed with this idea since posting about it. Not just for Bowling Green but for other small towns in Ohio. i might create a separate topic. 

 

looking at Google maps alone, a lot of Ohio’s county seat sized towns are remarkably similar. They have similar things on the outskirts- county fairgrounds, a high school complex, a park with softball fields, maybe a cemetery, golf course, or water plant, and a Walmart super center. It looks like you could build a bike trail around or connecting or going through some of those things but maybe you couldn’t build a complete circle all the way around the town because of sprawl in one direction or another. A handful have existing trails or are near state parks already.

 

It looks like Oxford (Miami U) has a trail network to the east of town but it does not encircle the town to the west. 
 

 

14 hours ago, thebillshark said:

I’ve become somewhat obsessed with this idea since posting about it. Not just for Bowling Green but for other small towns in Ohio. i might create a separate topic. 

 

looking at Google maps alone, a lot of Ohio’s county seat sized towns are remarkably similar. They have similar things on the outskirts- county fairgrounds, a high school complex, a park with softball fields, maybe a cemetery, golf course, or water plant, and a Walmart super center. It looks like you could build a bike trail around or connecting or going through some of those things but maybe you couldn’t build a complete circle all the way around the town because of sprawl in one direction or another. A handful have existing trails or are near state parks already.

 

It looks like Oxford (Miami U) has a trail network to the east of town but it does not encircle the town to the west. 
 

 

 

 

now thats a very good thing to be obsessed about. 

 

yeah for sure bg really needs to up its game with trees, parkland and bike trails. a dedicated bike trail right thru a cornfield would be awesome. i have driven an open jeep thru fall cornfields there and it was a blast lol. ok i guess you could not plow round a trail very easily, but a bike trail built right up alongside the cornfields would be cool if it could be done.

 

also, in lorain county the county seat of elyria is a good example for that. downtown is between trailing branches of the black river and they have a fantastic park just above downtown, with valley, falls and walking trails. it could be better connected to downtown though like with bike trails. and for that matter why not find ways to run a bike trail from there north up to lake erie along the river? the black river is as winding or more winding than the cuyahoga, and with a few obstacles along the way, but also parks in lorain to connect to, so maybe it could be done? or at the very least a dedicated elyria only bike trail south from cascade park to a loop around the downtown would be great. 

 

hmm, yes maybe this would be a good seperate topic thread?

 

I'm not sure surrounding the city with with trees would make much difference to the wind. The city is already pretty full of trees, and they don't do much to reduce the velocity. I think this might work on a small scale for an individual farmhouse out in the fields, but for an entire city?

 

Having biked all of BG, the trails, and the surrounding countryside, though, I agree that more trails would be good for the city and area. I've long advocated for much more parkland in the Black Swamp, for the health of Lake Erie and its tributaries, and to make the area more attractive. Just yesterday I drove over 6 hours round trip to Hocking Hills just for a day of hiking. There is almost no place near Toledo to spend an entire day hiking -- Oak Openings is an excellent park, but otherwise for Toledo folks, the nearest large parks are the Pinckney area northwest of Ann Arbor, and a ring of parks from about Yellow Springs, to Hocking Hills, up to the Mohican Memorial State Forest near Mansfield. I've hiked every trail in Oak Openings and know better than to go in spring, when everything is wet.  

 

The Golf Course was closed on the BGSU campus because it was costing the university more than $800,000/year to subsidize it. Those days are over!

Edited March 23, 20214 yr by westerninterloper

^ pretty sure he meant bgsu campus needs the trees in and around it, not so much the city. 

 

and i had no idea golf courses were so expensive to run, but i guess so when you think about it lol -- yeah there is no way it would ever pay for itself.

1 hour ago, mrnyc said:

^ pretty sure he meant bgsu campus needs the trees in and around it, not so much the city. 

 

and i had no idea golf courses were so expensive to run, but i guess so when you think about it lol -- yeah there is no way it would ever pay for itself.

I see...still not sure it would make that much difference for a campus that large. The wide open spaces maybe, out by the stadium, but a lot of campus is already "protected" from the wind by buildings...until you step between them...I nearly tore a door off its hinges last week when the wind caught it. Blowing Green!

^ more trees on campus would definitely not make much of a difference, but would at least give the appearance to doing so lol. 

 

and yeah good typical example -- i think the buildings funnel the wind around even worse, so you cannot reasonably build your way out of it either.

 

i think you just cannot beat back mother nature's topography and weather around there!

On 3/24/2021 at 2:18 PM, mrnyc said:

^ more trees on campus would definitely not make much of a difference, but would at least give the appearance to doing so lol. 

 

and yeah good typical example -- i think the buildings funnel the wind around even worse, so you cannot reasonably build your way out of it either.

 

i think you just cannot beat back mother nature's topography and weather around there!

The BG campus already has many beautiful old trees; the oldest part of campus was originally a city park, and the university has done a good job of planting and maintaining the tree cover, though it could always do more.

 

I agree that there's just not much to be done about it...the wind is one of those memorable things about the area.

 

It's hell to ride a bicycle into, but a few times I've been dropped off many miles south of town and practically sailed the rural roads, barely needing to pedal, back to BG on a stiff southern wind. 

 

Another feature of the area is the spring bird migration - coming in the next few weeks. http://bgindependentmedia.org/birders-with-binoculars-and-naked-eyed-novices-should-marvel-at-spring-migration/?fbclid=IwAR0zxpfBZ4tVUj9wk3zW22Ww8Bsr0ZmQzYLvLMe64iQQuyx5R46vliYbco4 

Edited March 27, 20214 yr by westerninterloper

On 3/23/2021 at 12:58 PM, mrnyc said:

^ pretty sure he meant bgsu campus needs the trees in and around it, not so much the city. 

no I meant both around the campus and around the town. I read that a windbreak with tall enough trees can disrupt the wind for over 1,000 ft, perhaps if you had that as a first line of defense the buildings and trees of the town would cause additional friction and it would be enough to reduce the wind. In any case if the golf course is now defunct they could plant a windbreak of trees very close to campus aimed at blocking the cold wind from the north. 

i checked in to see whats doing and it looks like bg city has a new senior center in the workson main st  -- with a facadectomy:

 

https://bgindependentmedia.org/bg-takes-next-step-on-plans-for-new-11m-city-building/

 

 

22 hours ago, mrnyc said:

i checked in to see whats doing and it looks like bg city has a new senior center in the workson main st  -- with a facadectomy:

 

https://bgindependentmedia.org/bg-takes-next-step-on-plans-for-new-11m-city-building/

 

 

This is a rendering of the new BG City Administration Building. The facade is the old post office building which served as the Senior Center until this year, when a new Senior Center opened on the site of the old Junior High School/BG Schools Administration building just west of downtown. 

 

https://www.13abc.com/2021/03/11/79-million-bowling-green-senior-center-nears-completion/

 

The current BG City Hall, behind the Wood COunty Library, is in a very early 20th Century school building that has been inadequate for years. 

 

https://bgindependentmedia.org/bg-ready-to-move-ahead-on-11m-city-administration-building/ 

 

No other major projects I know of happening in Bowling Green right now. 

 

 

new apt complex on south main st held up over parking:

 

http://bgindependentmedia.org/lack-of-parking-spaces-sinks-variance-for-proposed-apartment-complex/

Proposed are 96 apartments – which several of the zoning board members agreed were needed in Bowling Green.

But the problem was the number of parking spaces for the complex – 202 – rather than the required 358 spaces for that size of a complex.

 

That's a lot of parking.

12 hours ago, Mendo said:

 

 

 

That's a lot of parking.

Yeah 202 spaces for 96 apartments is a crazy high amount. 

this isnt development, but after reading about the death of actress joanne linville at age 93 yesterday, best known for her role as the romulan commander on star trek who gets down with spock, i read this quote from leonard nimoy about spock becoming a sex symbol in the 1960s:

 

 

 

Spock was the breakout sex symbol on Star Trek. A profile in People Magazine reported that “the sacks of Spock mail reached 10,000 letters a month, mostly from women, much of it torridly erotic.” In an interview with The Pittsburgh Press, Leonard Nimoy recalled being confronted with his sex symbol status:

 

“Sometimes, Cleveland,” Nimoy smiled, “it’s fun. I remember at Bowling Green University in Ohio a young woman got up and said, ‘I am going to do something for your ego. Are you aware that you are the source of erotic dream material for thousands and thousands of women around the world?'”

 

What did he do? “I toasted her, with water, and said, ‘May all your dreams come true.'”

 

In 1967, Isaac Asimov wrote an article in TV Guideoutlining the key to the character’s sex appeal. Asimov argued that Spock had been able to make smart seem sexy. He was very much a contrast to the rugged and conventional masculinity of James Kirk.

a new campus gateway is supposed to start construction in the the spring:

 

 

 

BGSU to construct new campus gateway, restoring traditional look to University

Bowling Green State University

News

2021

October

BGSU to construct new campus gateway, restoring traditional look to University

 

Demolition and Detour Timeline

Demolition of Administration Building begins - Nov. 8

Lot 11 closed to traffic - Nov. 8-Jan. 6, 2022

Partial closure of Thurstin Avenue - Nov. 8-Jan. 6, 2022

Temporary pause of demolition - Dec. 13-17

Timeline is subject to change due to weather and other factors

 

Gateway will seamlessly connect University to city with open walkways and sprawling green space

 

By Michael Bratton

 

After years of coordination and planning, a vision is about to become a reality at Bowling Green State University. Preparations have begun for the construction of a new campus gateway, which will restore a traditional look and feel to the western edge of campus.

 

With construction set to begin in spring 2022, the new gateway will seamlessly connect the University and the City of Bowling Green at Thurstin Avenue and Court Street with open walkways and sprawling green space. Being designed to stand out on its own, the new gateway will also showcase the University's historic buildings, similar to the original gateway that once stood in the same spot when BGSU was founded in 1910 as a state normal school.

 

 

The new campus gateway will be built where the current Administration Building stands, and work is already underway to demolish the aging building at the start of November. Faculty and staff moved out of the building throughout spring 2021 in preparation for the demolition.

 

Weather permitting, demolition of the 10-story building will take place over four weeks, starting Nov. 8. Crews will use a crane with a 30,000-pound wrecking ball to fracture the building's floors from top to bottom.

 

 

more:

https://www.bgsu.edu/news/2021/10/bgsu-to-construct-new-campus-gateway-restoring-traditional-look-to-university.html

 

 

 

 

 

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its nice to see bg city is doing very well and attracting business ---

 

 

 

 

Business is booming in Bowling Green

 

By JD Pooley

Published: Jul. 18, 2023 at 5:44 PM EDT

 

 

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (WTVG) - Industrial growth is booming in Bowling Green, all thanks to expansion and new industries moving into town.

“Feels like a boom, but I don’t know, it doesn’t seem to be slowing down, so we’ll see how long we can keep this momentum going,” Kati Thompson, executive director of economic development for the city of Bowling Green said.

 

Thompson said she currently has 15 active project leads that could bring a new company into town.

 

“We’re just seeing record numbers of active leads come through at the state level and then we respond to all of those that we have viable sites for,” Thompson said.

 

 

more:

https://www.13abc.com/2023/07/18/business-is-booming-bowling-green/

New data center, though not technically Bowling Green, it's about the closest thing to. Also don't think I saw this previously mentioned, Abbott is also constructing a baby formula plant in the northern area of the city

 

https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/data-center-fortune-200-company-to-middleton-township/512-ee6f3205-9ee9-4449-a86f-30800aa2705f

 

https://www.13abc.com/2022/12/15/bowling-green-selected-massive-new-baby-formula-plant/

Meta building a data center in Middleton Township.

https://www.13abc.com/2025/04/09/watch-live-new-800-million-meta-data-center-coming-wood-county/