FROM OHIO STATE MOVING ITS LAW SCHOOL INTO THE HISTORIC HUNTINGTON BUILDING AT BROAD AND HIGH TO NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S TYING FOR THE BEST PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL IN THE MIDWEST TO AN 11-ACRE REDEVELOPMENT BREAKING GROUND ON A 1914 FORD PLANT: Trustees Approved a 20-Year Lease Bringing 500 Law Students and 100 Faculty Downtown by Fall 2029, Nationwide Children's Made the National Top 10 for the 13th Time While Building a 14-Story Expansion, and Assembly Is Restoring the Old Kroger Bakery Into 350 Apartments on a Corridor the City Wants to Grow From 10,000 Residents to 40,000

Columbus institutional, healthcare, and development data reveals one pattern this week — the most valuable thing in any neighborhood is whatever can't leave it.

FROM DUBLIN REDRAWING THE SCHOOL BOUNDARIES THAT QUIETLY PRICE ITS HOMES TO 125,000 SQUARE FEET OF INDOOR RACING COMING TO POLARIS TO A FIVE-BEDROOM NEW BUILD IN PLAIN CITY UNDER $430,000: Dublin City Schools Released Final Attendance Maps Taking Effect in 2027-28 That Require No Board Approval, Supercharged Entertainment Has Broken Ground on a Multi-Level Go-Kart Track and 200-Game Arcade Near Powell Road and I-71 Bringing 300 to 500 Jobs, and This Week's Deal of the Week Is a 2,961 Square Foot Five-Bedroom From Arbor Homes

Columbus school, entertainment, and housing data reveals one pattern this week — almost everything that determines what your home is worth gets decided somewhere other than your house.

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FROM JOHN GLENN ADDING FLIGHTS BUILT AROUND THE OHIO STATE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE TO 498 NEW HOME LOTS PROPOSED NEXT TO ANDURIL'S RICKENBACKER PLANT TO MARK CUBAN CHOOSING COLUMBUS AS THE ONLY OHIO CITY FOR HIS AI BOOTCAMP: CMH Is Adding Routes to Austin, Cedar Rapids, Los Angeles, Lincoln and Omaha for Buckeye Road Games, Arbor Homes Has Filed for Nearly 500 Single-Family Lots in a Southeast Pocket Now Holding Roughly 1,700 Proposed or Opening Units, and a Billionaire Investor Just Picked Central Ohio for a No-Cost AI Program He Runs in Cities Like New York and San Francisco

Columbus infrastructure, housing, and investment data reveals one pattern this week — this city has stopped having to recruit. Things arrive on their own now.

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FROM A SEPTEMBER CALENDAR SO PACKED IT HAS TWO ARENA HEADLINERS ON THE SAME NIGHT TO A RESTAURANT LIST WHERE FOUR OF THE CITY'S BEST ARE NOW IN THE SUBURBS TO THE REASON MOST COLUMBUS HOMES SELL FOR LESS THAN THEY SHOULD: The Crew Host Their First U.S. Open Cup Semifinal Since 2010, the Palace Theatre Throws a Free 100th Birthday Party, a Penny-Farthing Race Comes to Plain City, Columbus Monthly's Best Restaurant List Now Runs Through Dublin, Powell and Polaris, and the Single Biggest Mistake Sellers Make Has Nothing to Do With Their House

Columbus culture and market data reveals one pattern this week — in real estate, the thing that actually creates value is almost never the thing people are looking at.

FROM 17 NEW GROCERY STORES OPENING IN FIVE YEARS TO A $1.65 BILLION MERGER THAT COULD GO DARK IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE MONTHLY NUMBER MOST COLUMBUS BUYERS ARE CALCULATING WRONG: Trader Joe's Broke a 20-Year Columbus Drought and Sprouts Chose Grandview for Its First Ohio Store Ever, Kroger's Acquisition of Giant Eagle Could Force Five to Fifteen Columbus Store Divestitures, Builders Are Buying Rates Down Below Market Right Now, and the Most Underrated Restaurant in Columbus Has Been Sitting on the Same Grandview Corner Since 2009

Columbus retail, merger, and affordability data reveals one pattern this week — the most valuable real estate research in this city is being done for free, published in public, and almost nobody is reading it.

FROM A $17 BILLION BANK MOVING ITS HEADQUARTERS TO DUBLIN TO A KOREAN BAKERY OPENING INSIDE ONE OF CENTRAL OHIO'S NEWEST COMMUNITIES: Northwest Bank Is Relocating Its Corporate HQ to Bridge North and Doubling Its Central Ohio Workforce to 300, Paris Baguette Just Opened as a First Tenant Inside Lawrence Square Between Hilliard and Dublin, and the MLS Data Shows Exactly What That Corridor Is Doing Right Now

Columbus development and market data reveals one thing this week — walkability has quietly become the most valuable feature in Central Ohio real estate, and the biggest players are paying up for it.

FROM CHICK-FIL-A, CHIPOTLE AND DUNKIN' ALL LANDING ON ONE DELAWARE LOT TO THE ZIP CODE THAT HOLDS CENTRAL OHIO'S MOST CONCENTRATED WEALTH TO FRANKLIN COUNTY CONTRACTS FALLING 21% WHILE PRICES HELD: Trailhead Crossing Breaks Ground With Eight National Tenants in One of the Fastest-Growing Counties in the Midwest, Bexley's 43209 Tops the Region's Wealth Rankings Ahead of the Booming Northern Suburbs, July's MLS Data Shows Buyers Quietly Getting Leverage Back Without a Single Dollar Coming Off the Median, and a 19.66-Acre Pickerington Estate With a Guest House and Private Dock Hits the Market

Columbus growth, wealth, and market data reveals a region being redrawn in two directions at once — and a narrow window to do something about it.