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🏗️ Spaghetti Warehouse Is Gone. Here’s What’s Taking Its Place

Plus: 🍭 There's A $5 Candy Buffet An Hour From C-Bus

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Chelsea Wiley
April 17, 2025

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Hello, Thursday! Chelsea here.

It’s officially the end of an era on West Broad Street. The old Spaghetti Warehouse building is gone, and now we’re getting our first look at what’s replacing it: a sleek, two-building development called The Macklin. It’s modern, it’s massive (though smaller than originally proposed), and yes, it has a rooftop pool. With 250 apartments, retail space, and a new pedestrian plaza in the works, this stretch of Broad is about to look (and feel) a whole lot different.

🍭 One Hour From Columbus You’ll Find A Candy Shop With An Epic $5 Candy Buffet
If your sweet tooth has been screaming for attention, Grandpa Joe’s in Chillicothe is basically candy paradise. We’re talking nostalgic treats, a $5 candy buffet, and enough soda pop to keep you buzzing all the way back to Columbus.

🏡 100K New Homes, Safer Streets, And Smart Lights: Inside The 2025 State Of The City
Mayor Ginther just gave his 2025 State of the City address, and it was packed with major updates. From 100K new homes in Columbus to a new mental health crisis center, here are the biggest takeaways.

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📜 Korean American artist Aimee Lee is keeping the tradition of hanji, handmade Korean paper, alive right here in Ohio. From studying at Oberlin to founding the first hanji studio in North America at Cleveland’s Morgan Conservatory, Lee is blending heritage and innovation in the heart of the Midwest. (Arts Midwest)

💊 The Ohio Attorney General and 38 other state attorneys general are calling on Congress to ban big healthcare companies from owning both pharmacy benefit managers and competing pharmacies, saying it drives up drug costs and squeezes out small pharmacies. (Ohio Capital Journal)

🐺 Did scientists really “De-extinct” the Dire Wolf? That’s the big question, and it turns out the answer is more complicated than it seems. Dire wolves once roamed Ice Age Ohio, but are the new pups from Colossal Biosciences really a comeback story or just clever genetics? (Ohio History)

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🏰 This castle-like armory stood at the heart of OSU’s campus from 1898 to 1959, hosting everything from basketball games to military drills and campus dances. Designed by Frank Packard, it was one of the most iconic buildings in university history.

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