Hey ^ Hope the above poster is enjoying his/her time in Columbus by now. I'd say similar to OKC in some respects, very different in others. Columbus is very much a city of neighborhoods, surrounding a kind of weak downtown. The neighborhoods have the lion's share of development activity, including almost all of the 15,000 apartment units currently under development in Central Ohio.

It's an interesting period in which the inner city has really begun to out-shine downtown and the suburbs, which is in stark contrast to most Midwestern metros around 2 million people - especially Cleveland/Cincinnati. Most commuting in Columbus is actually inverse. The entire 270 outerbelt has most of the region's corporate facilities, while most new housing is being built closer in. Polaris alone has 90,000 jobs, Easton has nearly 40,000, Dublin has 60,000 jobs, and Hilliard and Westerville's outerbelt corporate parks are up there too.

Too much new development to catch this thread up, but here's a few new high-rise projects:

New 35-story condo tower going up next door to the North Market:


I was a bigger fan of the Pizzuti/Arquitectronica proposal, but oh well:


New 25-story mixed-use tower in River South has a leasing office open now, still undergoing design review:


The Scioto Peninsula project (across the Scioto River from downtown) has expanded dramatically in scope, going from this:


To this:


So far Carter and Georgetown Cos are duking it out to win development rights for the above. Once a master developer is chosen and land is deeded over the above plans will change somewhat but remain true to the above plan that the city put forward with the RFP.

http://www.dispatch.com/news/2017040...la-development

It will probably be Georgetown, due to their ongoing relationship with city hall from Easton, where they built a 2-million SF lifestyle center and just got a 10-year tax abatement for $250 million in more apartment units.

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...coming-to.html



Easton is actually different from most suburban lifestyle centers because it's used as a home store and testing grounds for L Brands/Limited (RIP?), Victoria's Secret, Bath and Body Works (and their new spin-off White Barn), Abercrombie (and various spin-offs like Hollister), Lane Bryant, Express, Macy's (from Cincy though they've now closed that flagship store), and any other Ohio-based retailers I forgot. There's a new emerging retailer called Homage that will be the next big brand.