“The proximity to downtown, the irreplacable housing stock and its affordability will attract buyers—especially out of town/East Coast buyers who can’t believe the deals to be had. ”

The problem is that Columbus is not marketing itself to those buyers on either coasts. They’re not going to buy a home in a neighborhood that they don’t even know exists.

I’m rather certain that’s a part of why even after over a decade of gentrification virtually no progress has been made from the west end of OTE once one approaches Ohio Ave. This is reflected by the fact that all of the homicides that occurred here last year were all concentrated along Ohio and Champion. And don’t even get me started on Main St. here: it should be so much more. Think a mini-High St., but punctuated with several grass lots. At least there’s JP’s.

Oh, I just remembered, Bryden is being considered for conversion into a bike boulevard all the way into Downtown where it becomes Town St ending at 3rd and also connecting to Bexley to the east, an added incentive if it ever happens.