I admit that when the call was first made that Issue 3 had passed and that Ohio would be getting casinos, I was ready to give up and let it happen. What’s done is done, right? Wrong. While folks in Cleveland and Cincinnati and Toledo might feel differently, the voters in Central Ohio said that [...]
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Columbus Casino Not the End of the World
I’m hearing a lot of folks bellyaching this morning about the unfortunate passage of Issue 3 last night, and rightfully so. I posted my thoughts on why this was a bad deal for Columbus, and it appears that the majority of Central Ohio agreed with me, as every single county in the middle of the [...]
Photo tour of opening day at Huntington Park
I’m not a big sports fan, but I am a fan of urban development of all varieties… and from that perspective the new Huntington Park is pretty amazing. I’ve been familiar with the area it sits for over a decade now as my first visit to the old Mekka nightclub (that is now the Buggyworks Condo Building) [...]
Dear Everyone, Please stop complaining about NRI
The biggest crux of “downtown” development is that it is generally cost prohibitive for individual or entrepreneurial real estate ventures. There are plenty of large expensive parcels of land downtown ripe for development, but the number of corporations who can both afford to build AND see the value (both monetary and socially) is fairly limited. [...]