Posted January 30, 200916 yr Yep, you read right, we do have a warehouse district. However it's rather diminutive sitting right next door to the nationally renowned version in Cleveland. The Warehouse District had a plan drawn up in 2000 to improve the area, but not too much has happened in the past nearly nine years. This snippet from the plan pretty much sums it up: "Much of the district was vacant and deteriorating by the 1970’s. Today, few remnants of the area still exist." That said, this part of Downtown isn't a total write off with a few dining options, a virtually all-gay night scene centered around the main street of the district on 5th St. and even a yoga studio, opera house, and the only bike shop Downtown. Just look at the pretty parking lot beautification. There's still active industry in the northern reaches. I have a feeling these might be why not much progress has been made. (Did you catch the car on the bottom right?) One of my faves. So much potential. Old side. New side. Yes, you can buy vacuums right Downtown. Just a little jaunt through a lesser-known, somewhat abandoned, slightly gritty, very gay part of Downtown.
January 30, 200916 yr I think you summed it up perfectly: "so much potential". There is. It's too bad more hasn't been realized yet. I still like Cleveland's better. :)
January 30, 200916 yr I still like Cleveland's better. :) You don't want me to take it to a broader context ;)
January 30, 200916 yr I still like Cleveland's better. :) You don't want me to take it to a broader context ;) What do you mean?
January 30, 200916 yr a virtually all-gay night scene centered around the main street of the district on 5th St. Yeah, I know it well. This was probably the first part of Columbus I was familiar with as we'd do this disrict after the pride parade (before i started going to Cols for ComFest instead) as it had the best gay bars, though at that time there was two over in whats today the Arena Disrict and the part of Short North across from the convention center. Occasionally people will post old historic aeriels of Cols and you can see what this was all about, as the railroads coming into the city all collected here in a system of big railroad yards, with branches and spurs stubbed off into this district, so this was probably as much industrial as warehouse and wholesaling. It's this area (one of the areas of the city) where you realize Columbus is really, underneath the yuppie/white collar modern times, historically as much a midwestern industrial city as Toledo or Dayton.
January 31, 200916 yr Nope, the first link has a map showing the boundaries. It's the north central portion. ^^Faith Mission is just outside the boundary on Long. I forgot about the western part of the district, so I added those on at the end. :-[
January 31, 200916 yr It's in a suite in the building with the colorful flags hanging up. Scroll down to pic number #8 (maybe I should start numbering them). Again, here's the interactive map with all the places to go. I would embed it, but it won't let me. Well, let's try again... <iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&hl=en&s=AARTsJp1Si-iyxHYKmRL5MR68yQfEQdvpA&msa=0&msid=111104896988294047058.00046118171f053e92900&ll=39.970418,-82.995658&spn=0.011511,0.018239&z=15&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111104896988294047058.00046118171f053e92900&ll=39.970418,-82.995658&spn=0.011511,0.018239&z=15&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small> Nope, doesn't work, you'll have to click the link.
January 31, 200916 yr THAT area is the "Warehouse District?" Christ, I used to park my car at that "said district" everyday when I worked at PUCO. Oy. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 31, 200916 yr Well whaddya know: we have a warehouse district. By the way, there are few phrases cooler than "warehouse district." Nice photos as always. We've got to get the Lunch Hop hopping again.
February 1, 200916 yr By the way, there are few phrases cooler than "warehouse district." Couldn't agree more. There could be some really cool infill possibilities here with the existing building stock complimented (I guess) by the large swaths of undeveloped land.
February 1, 200916 yr ^^Faith Mission is just outside the boundary on Long. Oh, that's right...I forgot they were in the Discovery District.
February 2, 200916 yr ^^Faith Mission is just outside the boundary on Long. Oh, that's right...I forgot they were in the Discovery District. Hehe. Actually I think the DD ends on Grant, believe it or not. Oh all right, here's one.
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