Buyer has a vision for Dublin center | The Columbus Dispatch

Dublin restricted access to this site from day one. They get what they deserve and this center will only thrive when you can see it and get to it.

Free Lunch?

"I think some public financing would need to come into play to address visibility and access"

Yeah, I bet he does.

Thank goodness this is on the Dublin side of Sawmill where it can get some proactive, positive, common sense thinking and process. How about you start with luring tennants across Sawmill Road from where the taxes are higher and the services are poorer ... maybe The Andersons could use some new digs? Or how about turning that old Hechingers/BJs place into something like a roller rink , a chiller, etc.- something positive for the community to use and support. At least Dublin will give the proper focus to (help those who help themselves) the developers.

49 acre retail center in Dublin sold for 4.7 million. WOW. that is cheap.

Is anybody else that owns commercial property in overtaxed Central Ohio wondering how little their property is worth? I am.

Property taxes are destroying the value of your homes and businesses you idiots! Do something about it. Get pissed off and fight back. Vote these liberal loosers OUT.

Leaving Ohio Specialist wrote:

49 acre retail center in Dublin sold for 4.7 million. WOW. that is cheap.
Is anybody else that owns commercial property in overtaxed Central Ohio wondering how little their property is worth? I am.
Property taxes are destroying the value of your homes and businesses you idiots! Do something about it. Get **** off and fight back. Vote these liberal loosers OUT.

LMAO, all these homes and businesses had their values inflated for YEARS. Now everyone complains because they are going back to normal. Try living somewhere where property taxes really ARE high!

Who's the bonehead who decided to build a retail strip completely hidden from traffic in the first place. One of the most important things for retail is EXPOSURE. Just another incident where millions has to be spent to fix irresponsible sprawl development. At the very least, he's talking mixed use and "new urbanism". That's encouraging but there is still going to be the problem of exposure and the fact that Sawmill Road is completely oversaturated with retail.

LOL wrote:

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LMAO, all these homes and businesses had their values inflated for YEARS. Now everyone complains because they are going back to normal. Try living somewhere where property taxes really ARE high!

You don't think 2.5% is high. You are high. I live on the ocean just south of San Francisco and the property tax is 1%. Property values never went up in Ohio, compared to the rest of the country. Rediculous property taxes is what is holding the property values down. That and the fact Ohio is a toilet.

City Planner wrote:

Who's the bonehead who decided to build a retail strip completely hidden from traffic in the first place. One of the most important things for retail is EXPOSURE. Just another incident where millions has to be spent to fix irresponsible sprawl development. At the very least, he's talking mixed use and "new urbanism". That's encouraging but there is still going to be the problem of exposure and the fact that Sawmill Road is completely oversaturated with retail.

Agree, taxes are not the issue here. I think that he wants to deal with the oversaturation by making it mixed use, but the visibility problem is an issue, plus the interchange at 270 and Sawmill is a mess.

Leaving Ohio Specialist wrote:

<quoted text>You don't think 2.5% is high. You are high. I live on the ocean just south of San Francisco and the property tax is 1%. Property values never went up in Ohio, compared to the rest of the country. Rediculous property taxes is what is holding the property values down. That and the fact Ohio is a toilet.

I don't know, LOS. Your property taxes might be 1%, but the government is taking an extra 10% of your salary this year and might - or might not - return it to you in April. State government is paying its employees with IOUs.
Ohio's got its problems, no doubt. And property values have gone up. I know - I own a home. But California is about to go bankrupt. How does that happen to the world's seventh-largest economy? It's not because the taxes are too low.
It's certainly a dynamic state, and I'm sure your neighborhood is beautiful, but it's California that's going down the toilet. You're getting there a lot faster than us.

Why does every commercial property failure and builder/developer/owner greed need to be corrected by public financing?

Sawmill Road is WASHED UP. It's not anywhere near being the most important commercial property in Central Ohio.

Leaving Ohio Specialist wrote:

<quoted text>You don't think 2.5% is high. You are high. I live on the ocean just south of San Francisco and the property tax is 1%. Property values never went up in Ohio, compared to the rest of the country. Rediculous property taxes is what is holding the property values down. That and the fact Ohio is a toilet.

Your property taxes are low... And that's one of many reasons why California is BROKE. The states that went on "Republican tax break sprees" over the last 10-20 years are the same states that are deepest in the hole today. They slashed taxes, they're in the deepest holes now, and their infrastructure is crumbling around them. Ohio did this to an extent over the last 10-20 yrs, but thankfully we have leadership that realizes the necessity of collecting taxes to pay the bills.

The outcome of Proposition 13 doesn't have me California Dreamin'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Propo... (1978)

Nor do your TENS OF MILLIONS of illegals, earthquakes, wild fires, TRAFFIC JAMS, SMOG, INSANELY HIGH REAL ESTATE PRICES, self aggrandizing trust fund kiddies who flock there
from everywhere else, or the millions of flakes from Minnesota who think that California is still as nice as it was in 1976.

OH YEAH... Let's not forget your mildly retarded, fiscally inept, undereducated movie star Governors who PRETEND to work as governors long enough to get into the Oval Office. Thank god Arnold doesn't qualify YET. And on the subject of UNDEREDUCATED... Unless you're an affluent Californian, CALIFORNIA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE AS GOOD AS OHIO'S LESS THAN AVERAGE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

Bottom Line: California might be great if you're affluent and/or work in certain industries like technology or entertainment... BUT DON'T KID YOURSELF thinking that Ohioans are sitting around dreaming of moving to San Fran or Tehrangeles ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrangeles ).