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Posts from ‘December, 2007’

RIP - Top 10 Restaurants that closed in 2007

2007 was a great year for new restaurants in Columbus, but there were also several eateries that closed up their doors for good. Here are the Top 10 restaurants that closed in 2007. They will all be missed.
1. The Original Wendy’s - 2007 was a bad year for Wendy’s in general. Sagging sales, a potential [...]

2007: The Year That Columbus Started to Matter in the US

I know that the bulk of the readers of this blog live here in Central Ohio, but it doesn’t hurt to remind everyone that 2007 was a huge year for Columbus in terms of national news coverage.
Sometimes it’s easy to take for granted what we have when we look at everything from an insider’s perspective. [...]

Some Photos of the new house

I finally got around to taking some photos of the new place to share. This is all pre-renovation. I imagine it will look much different in a few more years.

My 12-Step City Center Plan in Columbus Monthly

Back in August, I wrote up a long 12-step plan for recovery for the dead City Center mall downtown. In the November issue of Columbus Monthly, there was a great cover story about what could potentially be done with the Center Center in the future. I emailed my 12-step plan to the fine folks at [...]

2007: The Year That Blogging Started to Matter in Columbus

I’ve been running ColumbusUnderground.com since 2001, and I’ve been blogging in one form or another several years before that. During most of that time I felt like my audience was mostly friends, family, and a small slow-growing online community.
2007 though was definitely a breakout year though, and I don’t feel like I’m the only one [...]

Latitude 41 Recipe - November 2007

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Bloggers love to share their eating experiences

There’s an awesome article in today’s Dispatch about the local food blogging crew. I’m glad to see Heather, Lisa, Jim, Becke, and others get the attention they deserve. Being a child of the internet myself, I rarely look for reviews in magazines or newspapers anymore… it’s got to be online. And if it’s got to [...]

Who wants to be our neighbor? #3

Ok, just one more of these posts and then I’ll get back to our regularly scheduled programming.
This place falls just outside the eastern boundary of the King Lincoln / Bronzeville District by one block, so technically I think that makes it located in Olde Town East, but you’d still be our neighbor if you moved [...]

Who wants to be our neighbor? #2

Hamilton Park Place is a new condo development in the King Lincoln district right down the street from where we just bought a house. Anne & I went to view the model unit there about a month ago at a Sunday open house. Below is some info about what’s currently being offered there along with [...]

Who wants to be our neighbor?

Here’s some links to a few places in the King Lincoln District currently for sale.

171 22nd St. [map]
1210 sqft for $80k.
looks move in ready.
 
 

190 Monroe Ave. [map]
1392 sqft for $68k.
needs work, but nice bricks.
 
 

929 E. Long St. [map]
2102 sqft for $61k.
needs a little work, but HUGE.