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Passenger numbers at central Ohio airports keep rising | The Columbus Dispatch


Traffic at the airport in February was up 11.5% over last year, and may be on pace for a top 3 busiest year.

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Hyde Park Steakhouse at 55 Hutchinson Avenue at Crosswoods will be renovated and a 90-room hotel will be added.

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Camelot Cellars winery is moving to 901 Oak Street in Olde Towne East in April, and will include a new bistro.

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282-unit apartment sprawl between Cooper Road and Alum Creek in Westerville.

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Mayor Ginther is looking for private interests to partner with helping to revitalize Hilltop and Linden. The city has budgeted $61 million for the two areas so far to make infrastructure improvements and reopening community centers, but there needs to be a private investment component to help. Hilltop is getting some private investment in the form of new home construction and renovations, but right now only includes about 40 homes in a small section of the neighborhood.

Finally, it only took till 2016 for Columbus to figure out what other cities have known; you need a a good number of healthy businesses to serve as the foundation of healthy urban neighborhoods. At least he's budgeting a good amount, but I just hope it's spent properly.

The problem here is he's got it backwards: he's looking for businesses to partner with in these neighborhoods when he needs to create these businesses so that they exist in the first place. Looking to Downtown which has the luxury of being home to HQs in tall glass towers as an example makes no sense. Instead look to neighborhoods with thriving local businesses and work towards that. Like other neighborhoods do, focus on small concentrated area (Myrtle at Cleveland and a couple blocks of W Broad between Hague and Wheatland). Fix up the facades of storefronts and place business incubators there to help make local residents a part of this effort. Also, zoning laws need to be tightened, otherwise you'll just get walkable structures torn down for more 1 story chains that eat up lots of space like the Family Dollar has on W Broad.

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First Piece of Budd Dairy Development Getting Close to Approval | ColumbusUnderground.com


The first building of the Budd Dairy redevelopment is about to move forward. A new 3 1/2 story, 35 unit building will go in the northeast corner of 4th and 4th.

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A new brewery and tap room for 408 N. 6th Street Downtown. Weird location, but maybe this will be a catalyst for more in this empty part of Downtown.

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Lyft ride-sharing service has returned to Columbus.

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A new brewery and tap room for 408 N. 6th Street Downtown. Weird location, but maybe this will be a catalyst for more in this empty part of Downtown.

I don't understand any of the criticism about this location: "weird", " isolated ", etc, it's like people have never heard of microbreweries, because lots of them setup in locations like this all over cities nationwide. What makes it more confusing is that Columbus already has breweries in industrial areas that seem weird and isolated: off of W 5th and near Valleyview just for a couple examples. There's nothing weird about it, it's actually quite normal.

I went to Lake Monster Brewing in St. Paul where you have to walk two blocks south off of University from the bus stop past the blank walls of some industrial buildings across some railroad tracks and turn down an empty side street. I didn't see anyone around, but once inside it was packed. The location clearly works well for this type of business.

Columbus should, but probably won't, give incentives for destination businesses like these to open up in areas like these near neighborhoods that need a boost. Like I mentioned before, Holztman-Main would be great to help jumpstart E Main in Franklin Park. The NW corner of Milo-Grogan is another such location, as is 17th just across the highway from Linden. These industrial areas lack the bad reputation of their neighboring residential and commercial districts and so are less risky to open up in, not to mention as is the case with the new Cleveland based brewery and taproom these buildings lend themselves to be repurposed for such use. Even if you wanted to setup a brewery w/ taproom on say, E Main, you wouldn't have nearly as many options since most buildings were made for small businesses like shops and restaurants on the first floor.You'd probably be better off building a brand new one on one of the empty grass lots.

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Originally Posted by Mplsite

I don't understand any of the criticism about this location: "weird", " isolated ", etc, it's like people have never heard of microbreweries, because lots of them setup in locations like this all over cities nationwide. What makes it more confusing is that Columbus already has breweries in industrial areas that seem weird and isolated: off of W 5th and near Valleyview just for a couple examples. There's nothing weird about it, it's actually quite normal.

I went to Lake Monster Brewing in St. Paul where you have to walk two blocks south off of University from the bus stop past the blank walls of some industrial buildings across some railroad tracks and turn down an empty side street. I didn't see anyone around, but once inside it was packed. The location clearly works well for this type of business.

Columbus should, but probably won't, give incentives for destination businesses like these to open up in areas like these near neighborhoods that need a boost. Like I mentioned before, Holztman-Main would be great to help jumpstart E Main in Franklin Park. The NW corner of Milo-Grogan is another such location, as is 17th just across the highway from Linden. These industrial areas lack the bad reputation of their neighboring residential and commercial districts and so are less risky to open up in, not to mention as is the case with the new Cleveland based brewery and taproom these buildings lend themselves to be repurposed for such use. Even if you wanted to setup a brewery w/ taproom on say, E Main, you wouldn't have nearly as many options since most buildings were made for small businesses like shops and restaurants on the first floor.You'd probably be better off building a brand new one on one of the empty grass lots.

This is weird not because it's some industrial area, but because there is literally almost nothing around it, including just buildings. Across the street are just massive grass lots. Any additional development would have to start from scratch, which is a bit different than say, East Franklinton which has existing buildings to renovate and add. I'm not even sure if the big lots are even available for development.