Yeah, there's been data centers up there along the rebuilt 161 corridor for some years now. It's just big buildings that sit off the freeway and housing developments along roads that we used to run up and down when it was fields and forest. New Albangmee gets all the benefit of the tax revenue. Even places like Bob Evans moved their corp headquarters there because reasons.
Wexner was really the first one up there, that was decades ago when The Limited was a mall staple - the corridor was rebuilt when Longaberger was running hot and heavy and most of the 161/37/16 corridor was expanded to four lanes. The only part that's not is the section from the Trinway turnoff near Dresden to the County Road 6 junction in Coshocton.
I believe when Longaberger crapped out, that was the last section under construction and it just never was completed - it would require bypassing a couple of communities and that would be difficult. No reason for anyone to go to Dresden or Coshocton now.
housing developments along roads that we used to run up and down when it was fields and forest.
Ah, the good old days. They've done that behind me in the 30 years since I bought the house. Where once were field and trees filled with birds and critters sit little McMansions built with matchsticks, coat hangers, and duct tape!
Even places like Bob Evans moved their corp headquarters there because reasons.
Worked at Big Boy's years ago, we thumbed our nose at Bob Evans, (Howard Johnson's, too😄).
Wexner was really the first one up there, that was decades ago
We know they like the long game, maybe this was the plan all along.
require bypassing a couple of communities and that would be difficult.
Then they can screan some more about highways cutting off and separating segregating 'communities'! 🙄
The communities that Ohio 16 would bypass aren't of note - just old stops along the Walhonding Feeder.
Walhonding sounds quaint and charming. They may be happy for the by-pass, I probably would be. Can drive almost as fast on rural roads as you can on the freeway.
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