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In my 30 years in LA, never did I think I would see something like the following happening. South Park, roughly defined as southwest of the Arts District, south of downtown Los Angeles, east of [...]

Hellen’s 525 S Spring Street will get a big high rise designed by Steinberg Architects with TSK Architects and seen here [...]

Northstar Realty and Mark Ford of Ford and Associates AIA presented a preview of preliminary plans they will eventually take to the Clintonville Area Commission for approval.  The meeting was [...]

This one at 33 stories in the Los Angeles historic core will contain 320 market rate apartments plus 22 very low income units and 86 workforce housing units. Still not sure what [...]

Dublin Ohio’s Planning and Zoning Commission has approved what is to date the largest of the developments in the Bridge Street District. The construction of the 420 unit apartment complex [...]

A new proposal from Lykens Companies to redevelop what is one of the largest structures in Italian Village is on the table in front of the Italian Village Commission. Lykens plans to not only [...]

The trickle of development in Franklinton will soon turn to a torrent as this long long neglected area becomes the next Short North. So here’s another small piece with a 69 unit work loft [...]

The South Park mega billion dollar project, Fig Central, just broke ground on the 4.6 acre lot that’s adjacent to LA Live. The project will have a five star Robert Cavalli hotel, luxury [...]

I didn’t get chance to get out and take any pictures in the last month so I’ll turn this topic over to Walker Evans with Columbus Underground at the link below the text. In January [...]

As downtown Columbus multiunit rents get silly and two bedroom flats can run $2,500 per month, there need to be an alternative for those who work downtown. The solution has been in major high [...]

There just might be a new 80,000 NFL stadium on the site of the old Hollywood Park under construction by the end of the year. St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke announced last month that [...]

We lose another one. Not a big surprise given the lack of high end, full service hotel rooms around the ugly Columbus Convention Center. We get to the top two on the GOP side and top three on DNC [...]

Santa Monica has a very active bunch of NIMBYs who will shut your new project down if they don’t like it, and that’s generally the case. Tech industry has become the source for 25% of [...]

Edit:  Question mark removed.  It happened.  It will create 500 new jobs.  Great news for Columbus. There will be a big announcement from IKEA today at 11:00am and I bet dollars to donuts that it [...]

If we decide that we really do want convention business in Columbus we must do something about the lack of hotel rooms within walking distance of the convention center. Although not nearly [...]

The city of Dublin, Ohio approved the basic development plan for the Massive Bridge Park Development. Once completed The Bridge Park Development is expected to be over one million square feet of [...]

It was just announced yesterday that Kroger Co. bought the Macy’s site at Kingsdale for $10.5 mil on January 15, 2015.   Macy’s had recently announced plans to close the 45 year old [...]

I always start the year off with one of my annual out of town trips up north to Detroit for the NAIAS (Detroit Auto Show). As we’ve all been hearing, lots happening in Detroit these days [...]

Once finalized, this second route 36/37 interchange may end up looking just like the interchange at Polaris Parkway and Gemini Place, The proposal that ODOT likes puts this second interchange [...]

By a 6 – 0 vote the City of Westerville Planning Commission finally approved the M&I Homes development named the Ravines to be built on a 73 acre parcel with 139 single family homes. [...]