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The Week in Review 1

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In this first Week in Review series, we will do a quick rundown of the past week in Columbus.

First, in terms of development, we had a few updates.
-The Market Tower project at the North Market has apparently gotten a new design.
It’s gone from this-
The Week in Review 1 Columbus Ohio

To this-

The new design may actually be at least 40 stories instead of the originally-proposed 35. No official announcements on the height increase have been released, but I suspect we’ll be hearing something soon on this.

-The Gravity 2.0 project in Franklinton got its initial approvals from the neighborhood development commission, including approval on the 12-story tower, which has also gotten an updated rendering, seen below.

-Nationwide Children’s Hospital made national news for its ongoing investment in the Near South Side. Read that article at https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/09/when-a-hospital-plays-housing-developer/569800/

Random Columbus Photo 5

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Photo Location: Broad and High
Photo Date: Sometime in 1849
Photo History: Random Columbus photo 5 is one of the earliest ever known to have been taken in Columbus, and shows a group of bystanders looking at several people on horseback. The year this was taken, 1849, is significant in that it references the events taking place. 1849, of course, was the year that gold was discovered in California. The men on horseback are 49-ers, getting ready to depart Columbus to join the great California Gold Rush, and the crowd was gathered to see them off.

Random Columbus photo 5

Click on the image for a better look.

Unfortunately, not much else is known about the photo, who the people were, or in what direction the photo was even taken.