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Columbus adds several hundred units per year downtown and has been doing so for several years, but the demand keeps building. According to a report released by the Capital Crossroads Special [...]

California Commerce Department reports that approximately 20,000 residential building permits were issued in the first six months of 2015.  This is up 41% from the same period last year, and 72% [...]

The slightly downsized project for the old Olympic Swim Club site at 3450 Indianola finally got its final zoning approval by Columbus City Council. Initially, the project was slated for 152 [...]

Finally, after a decade of the fights with the Army Corps of Engineers over wetlands and then the real estate downturn, something is finally going to happen with this big empty field I drive by [...]

This has been a long time coming.  Finally, construction is going to get started on the Sawmill Road extension in the next couple of weeks with completion expected in October 2016. Today, Monday, [...]

Wow, look at this. A massive conversion of this massive 1908 property is on the way soon. Waterbridge Capital bought the property last year for $130 million The 1.1 million square foot Broadway [...]

Uptown Westerville is becoming the north, Short North. What a transformation over the last few years from antiques to polished casual restaurants and bars. First it was Old Bag of Nails then [...]

The once hot Northland area in the 60s and 70s fell into decay and vacancy after Lazarus closed their Northland store a decade or so ago.   There’s been a major attempt to revitalize the [...]

As was just reported by Walker Evens of Columbus Underground, and just about everyone else, Borror Properties revealed its latest design update for the 11 story proposed replacement for the old [...]

This is just amazing. Another mega project for LA’s south Park with a newly announced multi tower project with high rises up to 42 stories to be located at Olympic and Figueroa all the way [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]