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Lifestyle Communities Ltd. will spend $25 million to build 130 apartments and 76 condos on 2.8 acres along South Front Street between West Town and Rich streets.
The project will target a market of young, professional workers with condos selling for less than $200,000 on average and rent beginning at $750 a month.
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Buzzkill, dude.
Totally a buzzkill. But if I’m going to plop down $125,000 or more on a condo, I’ll probably start calling the cops on those crazy kids. At least there’s no lawn to worry about.
I don’t think people “plopping” down 125K or more on a condo in downtown are looking for peace and quiet. If you’re one of those people, I wouldn’t recommend living in a place that is catering to a younger resident with an active, entertainment-focused lifestyle or you’re just going to be mad everyday. There is ONE loser in my whole building that gets pissed when we have parties in the summer out in the common area and I swear we don’t know why he lives there. I find it ridiculous to deal with such complaints when you chose to live in a building right off High St. And my condos weren’t rehabbed that long ago so it’s not like he didn’t know what he was getting in to. Talk about major buzzkill!
Buzzkill, dude.
Totally a buzzkill. But if I’m going to plop down $125,000 or more on a condo, I’ll probably start calling the cops on those crazy kids. At least there’s no lawn to worry about.
I don’t think people “plopping” down 125K or more on a condo in downtown are looking for peace and quiet. If you’re one of those people, I wouldn’t recommend living in a place that is catering to a younger resident with an active, entertainment-focused lifestyle or you’re just going to be mad everyday. There is ONE loser in my whole building that gets pissed when we have parties in the summer out in the common area and I swear we don’t know why he lives there. I find it ridiculous to deal with such complaints when you chose to live in a building right off High St. And my condos weren’t rehabbed that long ago so it’s not like he didn’t know what he was getting in to. Talk about major buzzkill!
I live next door to a priest that hates RockBand! Now thats a buzzkill!
Buzzkill, dude.
Totally a buzzkill. But if I’m going to plop down $125,000 or more on a condo, I’ll probably start calling the cops on those crazy kids. At least there’s no lawn to worry about.
I don’t think people “plopping” down 125K or more on a condo in downtown are looking for peace and quiet. If you’re one of those people, I wouldn’t recommend living in a place that is catering to a younger resident with an active, entertainment-focused lifestyle or you’re just going to be mad everyday. There is ONE loser in my whole building that gets pissed when we have parties in the summer out in the common area and I swear we don’t know why he lives there. I find it ridiculous to deal with such complaints when you chose to live in a building right off High St. And my condos weren’t rehabbed that long ago so it’s not like he didn’t know what he was getting in to. Talk about major buzzkill!
I think I’m coming off as a douche here. That’s not actually the case. Personally, I like the location, but I’m not a condo person. I’m saying, most people who buy here are making an investment they’ll probably cash out in five or so years. The materials have to be of high enough quality to hold their value and there has to be good upkeep, or no one will buy.
Buzzkill, dude.
Totally a buzzkill. But if I’m going to plop down $125,000 or more on a condo, I’ll probably start calling the cops on those crazy kids. At least there’s no lawn to worry about.
I don’t think people “plopping” down 125K or more on a condo in downtown are looking for peace and quiet. If you’re one of those people, I wouldn’t recommend living in a place that is catering to a younger resident with an active, entertainment-focused lifestyle or you’re just going to be mad everyday. There is ONE loser in my whole building that gets pissed when we have parties in the summer out in the common area and I swear we don’t know why he lives there. I find it ridiculous to deal with such complaints when you chose to live in a building right off High St. And my condos weren’t rehabbed that long ago so it’s not like he didn’t know what he was getting in to. Talk about major buzzkill!
I think I’m coming off as a douche here. That’s not actually the case. Personally, I like the location, but I’m not a condo person. I’m saying, most people who buy here are making an investment they’ll probably cash out in five or so years. The materials have to be of high enough quality to hold their value and there has to be good upkeep, or no one will buy.
Nah… I really think you mean to say that after five years the place is going to look like this…
Now that’s blasphemous!! Or maybe you guys just suck and it’s painful to listen to :)
Now that’s blasphemous!! Or maybe you guys just suck and it’s painful to listen to :)
No, we just choose to play alot of Slayer, some Motley Crew “Shout at the Devil”, DIO, and Weezer (most people don’t know this but Weezer worships Satan.
Maybe we should change to more of a Stryper, Creed, Christian Rock vibe…..
Now that’s blasphemous!! Or maybe you guys just suck and it’s painful to listen to :)
No, we just choose to play alot of Slayer, some Motley Crew “Shout at the Devil”, DIO, and Weezer (most people don’t know this but Weezer worships Satan.
Maybe we should change to more of a Stryper, Creed, Christian Rock vibe…..
Stryper :lol: Wow, that was a blast from the past!! If you go that route the rest of your neighbors will hate you so take your pick – the firey gates of Hell or neighborhood exile. I choose the former!
Just think, between Lifestyles Communities building this and Edwards Communities building their project, you’ll soon have to move to the suburbs to escape suburban development. The more I see of the direction of downtown Columbus, the more I think that Gahanna got it right with their Creekside development.
:cry:
Could be better, yes, and I’ve been saying for some time that I was hoping for midrises and higher for RiverSouth because it should be (just going by location, by so many jobs and by the river) one of the crown jewels of Columbus, not its sterile and ramshackle current state.
On the other hand, it could be much worse.
So those two projects represent all of downtown? I had no idea.
Could be better, yes, and I’ve been saying for some time that I was hoping for midrises and higher for RiverSouth because it should be (just going by location, by so many jobs and by the river) one of the crown jewels of Columbus, not its sterile and ramshackle current state.
On the other hand, it could be much worse.
Nice. I was almost there with that graphic.
So those two projects represent all of downtown? I had no idea.
Unless I’m forgetting something, those are the two must recent substantial developments in the downtown core. So, no, they don’t represent all of downtown but they do set a sad precedent.
This takes me back to that quote by the Mayor’s spokesperson about the parking garages. Something to the effect of wanted to do something good now instead of waiting for something great later. I would rather wait for something great later. And that goes on the very debatable assumption that what we are getting now is good.
This is not an improvement in any way, this is embarrasing. This city wants to be the next big thing and goes half assed at what could have been a good attempt at bringing affordable space to downtown. You can pick up any architecture magazine and find cutting edge design in metro cities around the globe targeting the same demographic. This is bullshit!
That’s what I’m talkin about, Willis
I guess I’m just confused why everyone is so surprised? I told people about this project months ago and we knew it was lifestyles building them. This is by far the nicest thing they have ever built. While I would love all 5 to 10 story buildings downtown, these two developments are better than surface lots. There is still a lot of land downtown for building, but first we need to get momentum going. These are good for momentum, how many people from the burbs are going to come and visit these and say, hey this isn’t that dangerous and I kinda enjoy being able to walk to Tip-Tip or the Ohio Theatre, maybe I should look down here?
For my part, I wanted to confirm that it was going to be the same crappy, unimaginative brick schlock that we get every time before I started talking shit. I knew I shouldn’t have waited… :twisted:
I guess I want people from the burbs to move downtown and most of the burbs now have ordinances requiring unimaginative brick schlock. I’m not ever going to live in them (or somewhere that I can see them), however most people really like unimaginative brick schlock. Drive to any burb for conformation.
From a historic perspective, 4 story brownstones, and other townhome buildings were what was on the site to begin with. I wish and hope that Lifestyle doesn’t view this as an opportunity to bring their suburban style development to a downtown location.. Looking at the rendering, I’m already concerned. There’s not enough variation in the detailing, brick, or set backs, which ends up giving it the appearance of one big suburban apartment/condo building.
honestly, has anything built in downtown in the past 30 years have any real architechural detail…. i dont know i think theres nothing wrong with using wooden built buildings. panelized construction these days isnt that bad and honestly its very mainstream. the “Lahoti” on buttles is completely built in panelized wood construction, clad in brick and stone.
I’m amazed the land value isn’t high enough to demand more units or higher price points to make a profit. I guess that’s why Columbus is the #1 affordable city.
I agree that this is a positive step. There’s plenty of room for more, higher quality developments to be built. Remember, our CBD is bigger than Chicago’s, Boston’s, etc (can’t remember the source). I’ll take these over parking lots anyday.