Wednesday, January 24 2018

Hello Wednesday. It's James.

Our familiar Columbus skyline is soon going to be busier.

The Millennial Tower was approved Tuesday morning. It'll stand over 400 feet tall with 27 stories of retail (40k sq ft), office (155k sq ft), hotel (130 rooms), and housing (179 units). 

The design changed plenty along the way (see the link below for initial renderings vs. where we've ended up), with the biggest change being the loss of a six story wrap-around LED board. It's been changed to one vertical "blade" LED sign that will be 88 feet tall. 

It's an impressive building that will garner strong opinions from everyone.

Navigator full story: The 27-Story Millennial Tower Is Officially A Go

Wednesday Weather 🌡32 - Cloudy, slight chance of snow all day. ❄️

Navigator Originals ✏️The 15 Best Ohio Beers According To BeerAdvocate, RankedBeerAdvocate allows users to rate beers and then weights them based on those rankings. Here's what they have listed as Ohio's best.Bake Me Happy Is Hosting Nostalgic Treat Saturday, Complete With Zebra Cakes And Cosmic BrowniesWere you in love with Little Debbie as a kid? This Saturday, Bake Me Happy will be serving artisan Oatmeal Creme Clouds, Zebra Cakes, King Dongs, SnoBalls, Spongies, Cosmic Brownies, Star Crunch, Nutty Bars, annnnndddd now I'm hungry.The U.S. Curling Team Will Be Outfitted By Local Store, PursuitPursuit has been a fun company to watch execute a marketing strategy. First came their deal with the Columbus Crew, and now comes this news that they will be outfitting the US Curling team. That's good hustle.

Concert announcements 🎸🎹🎻🎤Fall Out Boy Will Play Nationwide Arena This FallLegendary Rock Bands Journey & Def Leppard Are Coming To Columbus

Around Town 🏘A record number of passengers flew out of Columbus in 2017.7.8 million flyers eclipsed the previous high of 7.7 million, set in 2007. John Glenn International plans to build a new terminal in the coming decades, as well as many other amenities, including a $106 million rental car facility that should break ground this year. [Dispatch/Rose]Ohio Republicans want to put constitutional amendments limiting union activity in the state on the ballot.A package of six state amendments would "limit how unions are funded, ban project labor agreements where the state or cities require union labor for construction projects and eliminate prevailing wage, which sets a floor wage for skilled labor on publicly funded projects." [Plain-Dealer]A Hot Chicken Takeover + Mikey's Late Night Slice collab?It looks like something's coming. [IG/HotChickenTakeover]

Coming Up 📆🎹 1/24: Mako🎤 1/24: Flobots⛸ 1/24-28: Disney On Ice🎬 1/25: Heffernan & Lemme Live🐶 1/25: Open Bark Night Columbus🎭 1/26: Brian Regan🦄 1/26-28: Ohayocon👸 1/26-28: COSI's Winter Movie Series: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs💃 1/27: Wonderball🎸 1/27: LANCO🎻 1/27-28: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in Concert🎹 1/28: Ruth B🎭 1/28: Jeff Dunham❄️ 1/28: Winter Walk at Green Lawn Cemetery

Longread 🏡On the days when you ordered your house from Sears, they shipped it to you via rail, and you assembled it with the help of a 75 page instruction manual.Messy Nessy Chic: Remember when you could Mail Order an Entire House in a Giant DIY Kit?

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