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FROM HONDA COMMITTING THREE BILLION DOLLARS TO A FOURTH OHIO AUTO PLANT TO THE ENTIRE SISTINE CHAPEL CEILING HANGING IN A FORMER FOREVER 21 AT POLARIS TO A WEEK WITH FASHION SHOWS, FRANKLINTON FRIDAY AND 1.5 MILLION LIGHTS AT HUNTINGTON PARK: The New Plant Goes Between Marysville and East Liberty With More Than 2,000 Jobs and Room for 240,000 Vehicles a Year Starting in 2029, the Exhibition Has Life-Size Reproductions of All 34 Frescoes Through December 27, and Marysville Currently Has More Homes for Sale Per Buyer Than Any Suburb I've Tracked This Fall

Columbus news reveals one pattern this week: the most believable promise comes from the company that has already kept one here for forty years.

FROM 165 MILLION PEOPLE WITHIN A DAY'S DRIVE OF COLUMBUS TO A NOVEMBER WITH OREGON AT THE 'SHOE, MICHIGAN ON THE 28TH AND FOUR SEPARATE LIGHT SHOWS TO FIVE HOLIDAY PLANS THAT COST NOTHING: About 45% of the U.S. Population Lives Within a Day's Drive of the Spot Where I-70 Crosses I-71, Which Is Also Why the Warehouses, the Cargo Airport and This Month's Crowds Keep Coming Here

Columbus geography reveals one pattern this week: the most valuable thing this city owns was decided by two lines on a highway map, and it's the one thing nobody can copy.

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FROM THE FIFTH-BEST INDEPENDENT COFFEE SHOP IN AMERICA, TUCKED INSIDE A BAR INSIDE A PIZZA PLACE, TO THE WORLD'S LARGEST CARTOON COLLECTION SITTING FREE IN AN OHIO STATE BUILDING ON HIGH STREET, TO A GOOGLE PARTNERSHIP THAT'S SMALLER AND MORE INTERESTING THAN THE HEADLINE: Royal Flamingo Coffee House Made USA TODAY's National Top Five for the Second Year Running, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Holds 300,000 Original Cartoons and Charges Nothing to See Them, and Ohio State and Google Cloud Announced Programs, Not a Headquarters

Columbus news reveals one pattern this week: the best things in this city are tucked inside something else, and the people who look inside first get them at the old price.

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FROM A NINE-THOUSAND-ACRE BUSINESS PARK EAST OF COLUMBUS THAT HAS ALREADY ABSORBED EIGHTY-THREE BILLION DOLLARS TO A SOCCER STADIUM DISTRICT THAT IS YEARS LATE BUT WILL HOST NINE OLYMPIC MATCHES IN 2028 TO A HALLOWEEN WEEK WITH TWO LAST-EVER PARTIES: Intel Just Installed the First Structural Truss on a Fab That Won't Run Until 2030 or 2031, the New Albany International Business Park Around It Already Holds 41 Million Square Feet and 29,000 Jobs, and Astor Park Is Rising Around a $315 Million Stadium That Opened Five Years Ago

Columbus development data reveals one pattern this week — every big announcement in this metro has a real part and a promised part, and almost nobody separates them.

FROM A TWENTY-THOUSAND-SEAT AMPHITHEATER AT POLARIS THAT IS NOW AN IKEA AND A TOPGOLF TO EASTON BEING NAMED THE BEST SHOPPING CENTER IN AMERICA FOR THE FOURTH TIME TO A WEEKEND WITH THE CREW, THE JACKETS AND THE LAST NIGHT OF BOO AT THE ZOO: Germain Amphitheater Opened in 1994 With the Moody Blues and Sold Out Farm Aid in Two Weeks Before Closing in 2007 and Getting Demolished in 2012, Easton Town Center Opened in 1999 and Now Draws More Than 18 Million Visitors a Year Across Just Under Two Million Square Feet, and the Difference Between Those Two Outcomes Is the Most Useful Thing in Columbus Real Estate

Columbus history reveals one pattern this week — the ground always survives. Whether you get paid depends on whether what you built on it can be rearranged.

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