Cue the haters! Microsoft just bought 183 acres in New Albany (Columbus: to buy, income)

[midwest1]

Question for PerryMason....

I'm pretty sure you have never stepped foot in the B, have you? You can't quite get the concept that it's way more than Cincy and Dayton, The C and D....in the CBD Metroplex.

Yet one of your city's leading real estate development firms just announced a 150,00,000 dollar project across the Great Miami River (which, truth be told makes the olengtangy look like a creek) from Spooky Nook.

Do you know what SpokyNook is? It's only the World's Largest Sports Training Facility....in downtown Hamilton, located in a 1,000,000 square foot converted/repurposed 19th century paper mill.

I'd take that over some evil big tech server farm any f-ing day.

Come disabuse yourself of your CBus provincialism someday and check out the land between the C and D....Hamilton, and Middletown, Lebanon, Oxford, Miamisburg, WestChester.Monroe, Springboro, Franklin, Liberty Center, Austin Landing, Fairfield, Kings Island, Centerville, Xenia, Germantown, Trenton, and most definitely, the world's Greatest Grocery Store, Jungle Jim's.

[PerryMason614]

I took a little drive along Route 4 once. Just about everything between Middletown and Dayton is a s***hole. Between Hamilton and middletown, also kind of rough..

Sports training facility? This is what you're going to hang your hat on?

[midwest1]

Springboro and Miamisburg are ****holes? Centerville? Germantown?

Which of these four have you visited?

All four would be amongst the most desirable CBus cities...

Cause there are so few historic towns around the Cbus Sprawl

[TomJones123]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

I took a little drive along Route 4 once. Just about everything between Middletown and Dayton is a s***hole. Between Hamilton and middletown, also kind of rough..

Sports training facility? This is what you're going to hang your hat on?

Columbus has its s***hole too....but to say everything in between middetown and Dayton is a s***hole is just stated out of ignorance..but lets check out some columbus hoods.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTbZB03pGc



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eps4aJzsaFc

[TomJones123]

Originally Posted by midwest1

Springboro and Miamisburg are ****holes? Centerville? Germantown?

Which of these four have you visited?

All four would be amongst the most desirable CBus cities...

Cause there are so few historic towns around the Cbus Sprawl

My Lord...Springboro is actually on the affluent side...Miamisburg is historic, charming, awesome housing stock and set right on the Miami river....its beautiful...I bet hes never actually been over to Miamisburb but saw the sign and thought he was seeing it from the interstate up by 675 and 75. Centerville is upper middle class and very sought after...Germantown is historic and cool as well...geez....blanket statements usually show intellectual laziness. Its easier to categorize and make blanket judgements instead of putting the effort to actually learn whats out there...anywho.

But if we go from dudes standard as six figure jobs ruling the day, theres no shortage of McMansions all along these communities heading down into Westchester and Mason even. Dude doesnt get that all of these communities have largely grown together...heck he thinks Western Hills is a neighborhood in Cincinnati.

[PerryMason614]

I didn't realize Route 4 now runs through Springboro. How did I miss that road project?

Germantown is okay, nothing to rave about. Okay, everything between Middletown and Dayton except for Germantown is garbage

[TomJones123]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

I didn't realize Route 4 now runs through Springboro. How did I miss that road project?

Germantown is okay, nothing to rave about. Okay, everything between Middletown and Dayton except for Germantown is garbage

Ya....Springboro is garbage...if Springboro is garbage then so is Columbus cause they both showcase this type of suburban McMansion communities.

https://goo.gl/maps/uDXXjeiMQuGiTyYZA

[bjimmy24]

Originally Posted by TomJones123

Ya....Springboro is garbage...if Springboro is garbage then so is Columbus cause they both showcase this type of suburban McMansion communities.

https://goo.gl/maps/uDXXjeiMQuGiTyYZA

weird, I would think PerryMason614 would consider this paradise.

[dustin183]

Does anyone know about how many this Microsoft office will employ? I'm assuming it's probably a data center since AWS and FB have data centers or server farms there.

So like are these just massive buildings with mostly hardware and then a handful of techies managing it all? (I guess by handful it could be a hundred or more).

But it's not like the numbers of heads you would need to do say manufacturing or other types of businesses?

[TomJones123]

Originally Posted by dustin183

Does anyone know about how many this Microsoft office will employ? I'm assuming it's probably a data center since AWS and FB have data centers or server farms there.

So like are these just massive buildings with mostly hardware and then a handful of techies managing it all? (I guess by handful it could be a hundred or more).

But it's not like the numbers of heads you would need to do say manufacturing or other types of businesses?

By the very nature of a data center, you raise some intersting question that I hadnt considered. The article doesnt say much so I guess time will tell...but yeah...jobs needed to run a data center are wayyyy less than say a manufacturing facility that actually produces something of value.