When I was a grad student at Ohio State in the mid-70′s no one had ever heard of the “Short North” neighborhood that lies along High Street just north of downtown and just short of the OSU campus. Furthermore, it was no area in which you’d slow down to sight-see either. It was best known for hookers and drug dealers.
Today it’s the hippest neighborhood in Columbus, filled with restaurants, bars, galleries and upscale condos, and it’s getting bigger yet as a recent New York Times article reports. I can promise you that the Short North of 1975 makes downtown Warren look like Piazza della Signoria at the height of the Renaissance.
Things can change here.
Thanks to Mike Kasler for pointing me to the article.
You probably mean Mike Kasler.
How’d that extra “s” slip in there? Fixed it.
Not sure HOW it could happen there. (Unless T.O.S.U decides to move their entire campus from Columbus to Warren.) If there was money to be made by creating something like the “Short North” neighborhood in Warren then some developer would do it. But no people equals no money equals no development. It’s a vicious cycle.
It can happen here but adjusted for scale — it can’t be the size of SN in Columbus but it can be a Warren-scale version.
no people = no money = no development was exactly the same situation in Columbus before someone with the capital and the guts to take a chance stepped up — that’s always the missing indredient; someone with money and guts and a vision.