How does Easton fill the Gameworks space??
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LJ
I'd guess more in the Jersey Twp area around 161. So like Beech rd or Mink St.Big_Mirg_ZHS wrote: Towards Nerk and Johnstown?? -
Heretic
That'd suck for me. When I have to go to the SE Columbus area to cover sporting events (re: Pick-town), I love to zip down Mink from 37 in Johnstown. Put a huge mall in that area and the traffic would be a b-i-zitch to deal with.LJ wrote:
I'd guess more in the Jersey Twp area around 161. So like Beech rd or Mink St.Big_Mirg_ZHS wrote: Towards Nerk and Johnstown?? -
se-alum
How old is your dad??LJ wrote:He'd be 93 in 20 years, plus with the way Columbus is growing, I wouldn't bet against it. Like I said, my dad was on the Northland Chamber back in the late 8's and warned them of the same things. They laughed it off. Not saying he was a great visionary, but he was the only landlord on the board, so he saw what went on in the area after dark and the way the housing market was moving. "Oh Casto's etc etc would never let that happen". Yeah, then Easton opened up a few miles down the road and took away ALL the suburbanite traffic. With housing prices really falling in that area, you will see a shift to outside of 270 on the northeast side.
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LJ
135. He's great, everything was benign, so now he is just milking it. Mom is about ready to throw him out of the house.se-alum wrote:
How old is your dad??LJ wrote:He'd be 93 in 20 years, plus with the way Columbus is growing, I wouldn't bet against it. Like I said, my dad was on the Northland Chamber back in the late 8's and warned them of the same things. They laughed it off. Not saying he was a great visionary, but he was the only landlord on the board, so he saw what went on in the area after dark and the way the housing market was moving. "Oh Casto's etc etc would never let that happen". Yeah, then Easton opened up a few miles down the road and took away ALL the suburbanite traffic. With housing prices really falling in that area, you will see a shift to outside of 270 on the northeast side.
BTW, how is he doing? -
se-alum
Cool, good to hear!LJ wrote:
135. He's great, everything was benign, so now he is just milking it. Mom is about ready to throw him out of the house.se-alum wrote:
How old is your dad??LJ wrote:He'd be 93 in 20 years, plus with the way Columbus is growing, I wouldn't bet against it. Like I said, my dad was on the Northland Chamber back in the late 8's and warned them of the same things. They laughed it off. Not saying he was a great visionary, but he was the only landlord on the board, so he saw what went on in the area after dark and the way the housing market was moving. "Oh Casto's etc etc would never let that happen". Yeah, then Easton opened up a few miles down the road and took away ALL the suburbanite traffic. With housing prices really falling in that area, you will see a shift to outside of 270 on the northeast side.
BTW, how is he doing? -
thedynasty1998
Who did your dad work for? I understand if you don't want to disclose though. -
LJ
He and my grandpa started and owned the companies. The main one was Oakbrook, but they soid off everything in 2001 or 2002. He sold his company in 2004. The house building company was shut down in 2005, which was Silvercreek homes, who used Silvestri Builders as their sub. I can't remember what company he had that built all the houses in the northland area in the 80's, but all of those were either built as spec homes, or were used as rentals which were sold. Silvercreek built 175+ homes in Highland Lakes and Mariner's Cove in Westerville.thedynasty1998 wrote: Who did your dad work for? I understand if you don't want to disclose though. -
joebaseball
My wife took a real estate class as part of her MBA program and Robert Weiler taught the class and was talking about how a bunch of major chains had bought land out off of 70 and 310 in the Pataskala area.LJ wrote:
out past new albany. Polaris is near the sunbury area. With the new expressway out there and everything, it's a prime location for a new mall.Big_Mirg_ZHS wrote: The next big mall will be up near where then LJ the sunbury area?? -
darbypitcher22
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thedynasty1998
Really?darbypitcher22 wrote: I don't know, but whatever it is I hope it can fill the space -
darbypitcher22
I'd rather see one whole business go in there than get divided into two or three other little businesses that attempt to occupy the whole space
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thedynasty1998
Weiler is obviously one of the people in Columbus who isn't afraid of Wexner and has been right in his predictions. He was a partner in Polaris when Delaware County was all cornfields. Obviously that paid off well for him.joebaseball wrote: Robert Weiler taught the class and was talking about how a bunch of major chains had bought land out off of 70 and 310 in the Pataskala area.
He's currently developing a golfcourse community even further up north called Northstar. The economy has slowed it down, but they are still making progress. If anyone in Columbus thinks that a mall out east is realistic, he's one whose opinion I would hold in high regards. -
LJ
my grandpa sold weiler his first land, lol.thedynasty1998 wrote:
Weiler is obviously one of the people in Columbus who isn't afraid of Wexner and has been right in his predictions. He was a partner in Polaris when Delaware County was all cornfields. Obviously that paid off well for him.joebaseball wrote: Robert Weiler taught the class and was talking about how a bunch of major chains had bought land out off of 70 and 310 in the Pataskala area.
He's currently developing a golfcourse community even further up north called Northstar. The economy has slowed it down, but they are still making progress. If anyone in Columbus thinks that a mall out east is realistic, he's one whose opinion I would hold in high regards. -
thedynasty1998
Your grandpa has been around for awhile then, as Bob Weiler took over his dad's company.LJ wrote: my grandpa sold weiler his first land, lol.
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LJ
I am talking about Skip. First deal he closed he bought off of my grandpa.thedynasty1998 wrote:
Your grandpa has been around for awhile then, as Bob Weiler took over his dad's company.LJ wrote: my grandpa sold weiler his first land, lol.
They are actually my current employers. I don't work for them directly, but manage a bunch of their rentals.
My grandpa had this problem of buying up every piece of land he could for resale. I think the only deal he ever really made money off of doing that was the Wal Mart on 23 in Delaware which was actually a fluke. He was going to develop it himself and Wal Mart came to him and said "we are buying this land, we will pay you this much". -
joebaseball
^^^
The old man taught her class. She came home with a new story after every class. Some of them were crazy deals like relocating Connell's Maple Lee Flowers across the street near Capital University and trading Taco Bells. Forcing everyone at Polaris to lease from him for 7 years before they could buy (capital gains) with the exception of his friends that owned DSW.