Columbus Brew opens new location on the west side!

Doug Buchanan of Columbus Business News gives us all the info on local business news including new Bakeries and Barbeques joints opening

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Mike Elliott, Columbus' Morning News.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
And they're still looking for the suspect who shot up
to seventy on Wednesday afternoon on the north side between
three fifteen and seventy one, And they don't really have
a lot of information. All they really know is that
the person was driving a dark sedan. So that's good luck.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
That helps.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
But yeah, about one o'clock Wednesday afternoon, the guy stopped
on the freeway, opened up the couple of the car,
like his driver side door and the passenger side door,
and started shooting into oncoming traffic. Police say that thirteen.
There were thirteen total victims, no serious injuries, thankfully. Yeah,
that could have been a lot worse than it was,

(00:42):
Absolutely a lot worse. Traffic was snarled up there for
we know, three plus hours on Wednesday afternoon. Finally got
opened up around four thirty four to forty five, and
I was talking to my wife.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
She she just missed that she was in the area.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
She had a lunch meeting on the north side of town,
and she went through to seventy just before one o'clock.
Oh man, thank goodness, no doubt that she avoided that mess.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
She would have taken him down. I'm not catch she stopped?
Do you does your mom know you're out here? What
are you doing? Yet?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
At his chest until he dropped the weapons?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Right, So, if you have any if you have any information,
they're hoping maybe somebody had a phone out and maybe
was filming something, please contact the Columbus Police or crime
stoppers and hopefully we can find that dude. All right,
over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line.
It is uh well Mark Summerson with the morning off.

(01:40):
He is on assignment. It is the world famous Doug Buchanan,
Editor in chief Columbus Business First dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Doug, how are you good? How are you all doing?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Columbus legend Doug Buchanan? How about that?

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I can't can't make that up. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
We've got a lot of restaurants to get to. All
good news to all openings this week. I love the
love that. But they found a buyer for that German
village church.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah. So this is the Livingston United Methodist Church. It's
went up for sale earlier this year, and perhaps not surprisingly,
Nationwide Children's Hospital has agreed to buy it. They're going
to pay seven million dollars for that piece of land,
which really completes a stretch for them. They've got the
original hospital there at at Parsons and now if you

(02:26):
look on the north side of Livingstone, they own the
entire stretch over to fourth They added you know, clumbstaffrad
Centric High School of you know, several years ago. So
for a hospital with you know, ambitions and and lots
of plans, it's you know, it's great for them to
secure this piece of property. And you know, if you've

(02:47):
driven by that stretch anytime over the last several years,
I mean they're making use of it. They've got new
research buildings, they've got that big behavioral health pavilion now
and you can just imagine that that they're going to
have plenty of ideas for how to use this new space.
What did you say the price tag on that was
seven million dollars. Okay, yeah, So the church they get

(03:10):
So the hospital went a haad and leased them the
site again for another year for ten dollars to allow
them time to figure out where they're going to go,
where they're going to take the congregation, So no immediate
changes at the site. So if you're a church goer,
you still have access and you know, frankly, if you're
a patron of Club one eighty five right to the
south there, you can still use their parking lot for

(03:32):
a while.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
That's what I was going to ask, because it's the
good stuff, right, Doug, This is some really interesting data.
The Ohio high schools who sent the most graduating students
to Ohio State this year?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Is it this year or last year?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
This is this fall? So this is what we checked
in with Ohio State now that fallse session is in
full swing to see kind of the enrollment trends. And
last year was a really big year for incoming freshman
high State. They bought in a really big class to
make up for some shortages from the pandemic that have
been hanging out there. So this year it is kind
of more back to normal, but it's a smaller freshman class.

(04:11):
And then we looked at the high schools that send
the most students and it's actually Cincinnati's William Mason High
School and it's been several years now that they are
sending the most students. I think it was one hundred
and thirty four of their graduating seniors to Ohio State.
Dublin Jerome wasn't very far behind from that, and then
you have three of the old in Tangi High Schools

(04:33):
and Dublin Kaufman are making up the top five. So
it's mostly local schools. But yeah, that Cincinnati High School
really big high school, but you know they sent the
most and but you know, it's just an interesting look
at how popular Hot State still is with local schools.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Does it surprise you that it wasn't a central Ohio
school that had the most students going to Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it is surprising, But this
is the numbers aren't broken down by district, broken dow
individual high school, so a lot of the Columbus high
schools are not nearly as big. For these big suburban
schools plus Columbus City school students they can get they
have a better path or cheaper path, a less expensive
path to get to Ohio State by using the Columbus

(05:15):
Promise program, then go to Columbus State for two years
and then go to Ohio State. So I think that
you're seeing a lot of the students who normally would
go straight to Ohio State or using that option and
saving a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Very interesting and Yeah, right, that is a really cool program.
Speaking with Doug Buchanan, Columbus Business. First, all right, some restaurants,
a number of them in the news and all openings
this week, no closures of note, which is a great thing.
And I see Fox in the Snow, which is a
sort of a bakery, coffee shop, dessert type place. They've
got a new facility in Westerville.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, they started. It's only been ten years ago that
they opened that first one on Fourth and as you mentioned,
they've got a menu that is extremely popular. There's an
egg sandwich that people love, lots of pastries and suites.
But anyway, after opening on Fourth, they've now Westerville is
going to be their fifth location. They went to German

(06:09):
Village in Dublin, New Albany as well, So you know,
this is one of those things. There was a couple
that opened it and they've just been slowly adding locations
as they've built up the capacity to handle it. And
so you know, with Westerville opening, that'll be number five.
And they already are saying that they've got a couple
of more really ready to go. And in line, they're

(06:32):
not saying the locations yet, but I think that you'll
continue to see them expand around central Ohio.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
We'll stay with baked goods and a long tradition of
a family operation for Rush's Bakery.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
And they've opened up in Gehanna.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, they were on I think it's one hundred and
thirteen years old. This business is there in their sixth
generation of family ownership. It was just just remarkable. You
don't see that very often at all anywhere. So for
this family, it's an amazing success story. But after being
on Livingston Avenue since the sixties, they went and opened

(07:07):
it much larger or much more obviously more modern space
on Hamilton Road north of Hannah Lincoln High School, and
they've moved into that one. And they were initially thinking
about trying to keep them both open, but I just
think operationally that didn't it didn't work out for them,
so they've closed the Livingston Avenue location. But all the same,
you know, treats and doughnuts that everybody has loved for

(07:30):
so many decades is now now available not that far
away but over on Hamilton Road.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
All right.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Now you're in my wheel my wheelhouse here, Doug with
a barbecue joint opening up another location in Hilliard.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, so Smoke Lick Barbecue. They're one of the newer entries.
I mean, I think we've got a great local barbecue
scene going on in this city now, and so this
one has been They've had a location in Hilliard for
about a year, but it's been mostly a carryout and
catering operation. So they're now going to open in the

(08:03):
True Point development, which anybody driving on two seventy has
seen that going up over the past year. But they're
going to go over there join a bunch of other
restaurants that are going to be opening there. But it
would be their first true sit down restaurant. And so
you know, I wish them a lot of luck. The
more barbecue, the better.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Right, I can't argue with that, And I've not had
Smoked Lick Barbecue yet, So that is going to be
on my list, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
And that's they've got this operation in Hilliard.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
And see Columbus Brewings had a tap room opening up
on the west side.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, the tap room. This is their original tap room
because that their main production facility is over there on
Harrison Road. And in twenty nineteen fall of twenty nineteen,
the timing wasn't great, but they opened a tap room
there and kept it open through the pandemic. But once
they opened their second tap room at the East Market

(08:55):
in Franklin Park, they soon decided that they were going
to close the West Side one concentrate on the you know,
the larger, more extensive East Side operation, and that's been
a huge hit over there. But people, obviously, especially people
on the West Side, have been asking about when this
other tap room is going to open, So they are
going to bring it back. It's officially a holiday pop up,

(09:17):
so they're not committing to it, you know, for for
for good, but I would expect that, you know, if you,
if you, if they do good business here through the
end of the year, uh, that that'll be you know,
a real impetus to keep it open.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
And they have their annual release of their holiday ale
called track Suit Santa, which is a great name for
a beer.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, track Suits Santa. It's a it's a great name,
a great design on the can, and really a very
very good beer. So yeah, So the pop up is
officially going to be holiday themes, so it's going to
be all Christmas stuff, all centered around track Suit Santa,
which would be coming out soon. I mean, it's it's
definitely cold enough this morning. It feels like it's ready
to do you know, ready for some fall beers.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
We'll have to get summer so to review that beer
and see what he says next time we talked to him.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
And then finally a new Ramen shop opening in German Village. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Bring this up for two reasons. I feel like I said, barbecue,
you know, can we have a good barbecue? Seem we're
starting to get like but I feel like Ramen is
having its moment in Columbus. Now there's Ramen shops opening
up all over the city and so this one is
the latest in that in that trend. And I also
bring it up because if you're a local pizza fan,

(10:29):
this is the original location of Harvest before they moved,
moved out and really started expanding. So it's a really
nice location. Also with the original home of Curio if
you were into the cocktail scene back in the day.
So good location for them, and you know, more Ramen
the better as well, right,