April 25, 2025 • 9 mins
Mark Somerson of Columbus Business First has the latest local business news including Columbus getting a new Steakhouse!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line from
Columbus Business First Managing editor Mark Summerson, how's your.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Long looking, man? Is it? Is it looking like putting
green quality?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
No prop on? Is fine? The backyard the squirrels and
deer have destroyed. So I put some grass seed down
the other day and the rain should help.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, it should. I tell you what. The deer have
become like squirrels.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I mean, they're pretty, they're cute to look at, but
they they they they dig, they.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Eat the plants.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And my wife wants to plant a bunch of hosta,
and I'm like, they're just gonna You're just gonna It's
just like a fast food carry out for the deer.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
They're just gonna go and eat it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I have now. I researched deer resistant plants, ones that
they don't like, so I planted a few of those.
But I have so many hosta and they're just being
nibbled as soon as they grow. So I'm I'm ready
to give up and just put some AstroTurf down on
the back.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about a deer resistant
Babie gun is what I'm thinking about this. No hit
him in the button, it'll and that I'll want to
heard him. I just want to get him out of
my Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Hey, let's you know.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I love barbecue, although I don't go out for barbecue
that often because I like to do it myself. I've
got a couple of grills, I've got a smoker, so
I feel like it's one of those things that I
can do better doing my own barbecue than most restaurants
can't accept accept There's one place that I'll go and
get barbecue out, and that is Rey Ray's Hogpit. And
(01:28):
they've got their very first full service restaurant starting up
in Marion.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, they're known for their food trucks. They also have
some counter service restaurants, but this time it's their full first,
full sit down, full service restaurant. But it's not that
close to us. It's up in Marion. They got a
great deal. The folks and Marion that are redoing their
downtown reached out to chef owner James Anderson and said, hey,
(01:53):
would you like to come in here and put in
a full service restaurant. He said, heck, yeah, we're ready,
So it'll be a two thousand square foot, two story
mid eighteen hundreds building they're moving into. It used to
be a barbecue joint, and this is a perfect spot
for him. And he says he's not done. He's already
near a deal for restaurant number two somewhere in central Ohio,
(02:16):
though not in Columbus, but somewhere in the surrounding suburbs
or counties. And yeah, his stuff is so good, and
to have him starting to come up with full service
restaurants is gonna be I think a big hit for him. Yeah,
they already have three trucks out there. They have some
counter space services in other areas, but this one they're
(02:38):
saying it's time for a full service restaurant now. So yeah,
I'm hoping this is the beginning of something sweet and
tangy and closer to home.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, I'm glad to hear they're not getting out of
the food truck business. I stopped at the there's one
on Lynworth Road. There's a little bottle shop there. It's
a little wine and beer place, and they've got the
Ray Rays hogpits up there, and I got some ribs.
I got some ribs, and my wife wanted me to
get that they've got these and people are going to
kill me for this. The cauliflower burnt ends, which is
(03:10):
a vegetarian option, I know to the brisket burn ends,
but she wanted to try it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I gotta tell you what.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Those were way better than I ever thought cauliflower could taste.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh, you can do amazing things with cauliflower other than
just boiling it out of the frozen bag, which is
my old trick with cauliflower, right, So much better when
restaurants take it and turn it into something beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I just wanted to point out those were for my wife,
not for me. I had the ribs. I just want
to make sure that I, you know, I tried one,
just you know, from a uh, you know, food safety aspect,
just a quality control kind of thing, you know, and
it was pretty good. So yeah, good for Ray Rays.
It's a solid outfit and some great barbecue. And here's hoping,
as you said, that they continue to expand. Mark Summerson,
(03:55):
Columbus Business First dot Com.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I've not been to ten Pin Alley, Hilliard.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's a kind of a bowling alley arcade laser tag
event space, and it's it's going up for sale.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, I was there for a class reunion a few
years back. I can't remember which one, maybe thirty. I
have no idea.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's been so long now stop counting.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Somebody I went to high school with is they They
run it. It's Party Bowl Reality LLC has owned the
site since two thousand and six. It purchased the site
for five hundred and eight thousand dollars, which seems like
a lot for a bowling alley. But they've made some improvements.
It's been around for a while. It's got twenty four
bowling lanes at Arcade, Laser Tag, dining in private event rooms,
(04:39):
a single story, thirty two thousand square foot building. It's
right there on three point six acres, one hundred and
twenty parking spaces. Built in nineteen sixty one, but renovated
for a lot in twenty eighteen. And it was a
five million dollar expansion, and it won an Architecture Design
Ward Award from everybody's favorite magazine, Bowl Journal International. You know,
(05:03):
I read it for the articles. Somebody will read it, you.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Know, it's for the pictures, for the pictures.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But yeah, it's for sale now. You can buy this
for just under seven million dollars and it's all yours.
And bowling alleys have been turning around in central Ohio.
They're either closing and being redeveloped or they're for sale
and people are buying them up. So this one's an
expensive guy, but it's if you've ever been there, you'll
(05:29):
know it's something special. It's not your normal two lanes
and you know, beer at the counter and some shoes
that you have to spray.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But I think they still spray the shoes. I think
they still spray the shoes as well. How's your bowling game?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Have you have you are you able to take the
bumpers down now or have you advanced that far?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I have my moments when I'm bowling, and then I
have my moments when the ball goes right into the gutter.
But if I practice, I think I'd be okay. Yeah,
it's on a bowling We were in a bowling league
a couple of years ago, a couple of people from
business First, and we did fine. I think we didn't
lose in our bracket, but we didn't win either.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well did you have fun? Mark? And I guess that's
the main question.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
There's beer and pizza, beer and.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Pizza and someone else's shoes.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Ohio State Airport, they've been wanting to extend their runways
for a long time and they're getting closed, but they
keep they keep putting them off.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Where do we sit with that?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh, it's basically as our reporter carry goes road. They're
in a holding pattern and they have bitten for three decades.
They're trying to get the runway to extend to six
thousand feet. That would double the north runway at don
Scott Field, which is always used airport up near Sawmill Road,
and it's it's one of those things that the money
(06:50):
it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. It
would cost forty three million dollars to double this runway,
but that would mean more bigger corporate jets. It wouldn't
have to refuel going places. If you've ever been around
there at Mierfield, you're going to see a lot of
private jets coming in, some carrying the golfers. And it's
(07:13):
also home to a number of major users including Cardinal Health, Worthington, Steal,
Worthington Enterprises, Advanced Draining Systems which is Hilliard Base and
NetJets of course use the airport for charter flights. They
also Ohio State teaches there. They have some cessnas that
they teach flight there. They've done some upgrades to that airport,
(07:33):
but they really want to get that runway larger, but
the price keeps getting higher. It's just one of those
things their users want them to do it. Ohio State
wants to do it, but the cost.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Is really big.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So we're at this point still in a holding pattern.
Their master plan done in nineteen ninety two, called for
this runway extension, but all these recessions over the years
and other barriers have delayed the project. And again it's delayed.
So who knows if Ohio State, you know, if they
ever get that larger runway, that means more business for
Ohio State. It means corporate flyers are going to have
(08:09):
more space and have larger airplanes that can take off
and not have to refuel on the longer flight.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I wonder what the neighbors in the area feel, how
they feel about having bigger live up there.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It was loud, yeah to live up there twenty five
years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It got loud.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
If it's really the bigger jets.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I was going to say, if it's loud with the
smaller private planes, and now they want to extend the
runway so they can attract bigger planes.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I wonder if it's going to be even louder and interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It's it's not like having an air Force base nearby
where you really hear those jets. This is it's it's
got some you know, it's got some noise.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Last story, Mark Sommerson, Columbus Business. First, we're getting yet
another steakhouse. I am all for that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
This one's called Losanti. It's from Cincinnati. And the interesting
thing is this isn't Franklinton. And the last thing that
was in Franklinton in this exact same spot was Taps.
Taps is a brewery from Cincinnati. They opened in twenty nineteen.
They closed last fall, and now Crown Restaurant Group is
going to Openlesante in the Gravity development in the exact
(09:16):
same spot and they're going to take over that space.
They have plans. It's about a fifty eight hundred square
feet with two thousand square feet patio. They opened at Cincinnati,
their first one in twenty nineteen. It's basically what they
call a boutique Italian steakhouse, which I think means prime
steak with some noodles on top, but I don't know.
I'm not sure what an Italian steakhouse is. I'm going
(09:38):
to have to go and find out.
On the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line from
Columbus Business First Managing editor Mark Summerson, how's your.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Long looking, man? Is it? Is it looking like putting
green quality?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
No prop on? Is fine? The backyard the squirrels and
deer have destroyed. So I put some grass seed down
the other day and the rain should help.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, it should. I tell you what. The deer have
become like squirrels.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I mean, they're pretty, they're cute to look at, but
they they they they dig, they.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Eat the plants.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And my wife wants to plant a bunch of hosta,
and I'm like, they're just gonna You're just gonna It's
just like a fast food carry out for the deer.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
They're just gonna go and eat it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I have now. I researched deer resistant plants, ones that
they don't like, so I planted a few of those.
But I have so many hosta and they're just being
nibbled as soon as they grow. So I'm I'm ready
to give up and just put some AstroTurf down on
the back.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about a deer resistant
Babie gun is what I'm thinking about this. No hit
him in the button, it'll and that I'll want to
heard him. I just want to get him out of
my Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Hey, let's you know.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I love barbecue, although I don't go out for barbecue
that often because I like to do it myself. I've
got a couple of grills, I've got a smoker, so
I feel like it's one of those things that I
can do better doing my own barbecue than most restaurants
can't accept accept There's one place that I'll go and
get barbecue out, and that is Rey Ray's Hogpit. And
(01:28):
they've got their very first full service restaurant starting up
in Marion.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, they're known for their food trucks. They also have
some counter service restaurants, but this time it's their full first,
full sit down, full service restaurant. But it's not that
close to us. It's up in Marion. They got a
great deal. The folks and Marion that are redoing their
downtown reached out to chef owner James Anderson and said, hey,
(01:53):
would you like to come in here and put in
a full service restaurant. He said, heck, yeah, we're ready,
So it'll be a two thousand square foot, two story
mid eighteen hundreds building they're moving into. It used to
be a barbecue joint, and this is a perfect spot
for him. And he says he's not done. He's already
near a deal for restaurant number two somewhere in central Ohio,
(02:16):
though not in Columbus, but somewhere in the surrounding suburbs
or counties. And yeah, his stuff is so good, and
to have him starting to come up with full service
restaurants is gonna be I think a big hit for him. Yeah,
they already have three trucks out there. They have some
counter space services in other areas, but this one they're
(02:38):
saying it's time for a full service restaurant now. So yeah,
I'm hoping this is the beginning of something sweet and
tangy and closer to home.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, I'm glad to hear they're not getting out of
the food truck business. I stopped at the there's one
on Lynworth Road. There's a little bottle shop there. It's
a little wine and beer place, and they've got the
Ray Rays hogpits up there, and I got some ribs.
I got some ribs, and my wife wanted me to
get that they've got these and people are going to
kill me for this. The cauliflower burnt ends, which is
(03:10):
a vegetarian option, I know to the brisket burn ends,
but she wanted to try it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I gotta tell you what.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Those were way better than I ever thought cauliflower could taste.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh, you can do amazing things with cauliflower other than
just boiling it out of the frozen bag, which is
my old trick with cauliflower, right, So much better when
restaurants take it and turn it into something beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I just wanted to point out those were for my wife,
not for me. I had the ribs. I just want
to make sure that I, you know, I tried one,
just you know, from a uh, you know, food safety aspect,
just a quality control kind of thing, you know, and
it was pretty good. So yeah, good for Ray Rays.
It's a solid outfit and some great barbecue. And here's hoping,
as you said, that they continue to expand. Mark Summerson,
(03:55):
Columbus Business First dot Com.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I've not been to ten Pin Alley, Hilliard.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's a kind of a bowling alley arcade laser tag
event space, and it's it's going up for sale.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, I was there for a class reunion a few
years back. I can't remember which one, maybe thirty. I
have no idea.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's been so long now stop counting.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Somebody I went to high school with is they They
run it. It's Party Bowl Reality LLC has owned the
site since two thousand and six. It purchased the site
for five hundred and eight thousand dollars, which seems like
a lot for a bowling alley. But they've made some improvements.
It's been around for a while. It's got twenty four
bowling lanes at Arcade, Laser Tag, dining in private event rooms,
(04:39):
a single story, thirty two thousand square foot building. It's
right there on three point six acres, one hundred and
twenty parking spaces. Built in nineteen sixty one, but renovated
for a lot in twenty eighteen. And it was a
five million dollar expansion, and it won an Architecture Design
Ward Award from everybody's favorite magazine, Bowl Journal International. You know,
(05:03):
I read it for the articles. Somebody will read it, you.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Know, it's for the pictures, for the pictures.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But yeah, it's for sale now. You can buy this
for just under seven million dollars and it's all yours.
And bowling alleys have been turning around in central Ohio.
They're either closing and being redeveloped or they're for sale
and people are buying them up. So this one's an
expensive guy, but it's if you've ever been there, you'll
(05:29):
know it's something special. It's not your normal two lanes
and you know, beer at the counter and some shoes
that you have to spray.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But I think they still spray the shoes. I think
they still spray the shoes as well. How's your bowling game?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Have you have you are you able to take the
bumpers down now or have you advanced that far?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I have my moments when I'm bowling, and then I
have my moments when the ball goes right into the gutter.
But if I practice, I think I'd be okay. Yeah,
it's on a bowling We were in a bowling league
a couple of years ago, a couple of people from
business First, and we did fine. I think we didn't
lose in our bracket, but we didn't win either.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well did you have fun? Mark? And I guess that's
the main question.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
There's beer and pizza, beer and.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Pizza and someone else's shoes.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Ohio State Airport, they've been wanting to extend their runways
for a long time and they're getting closed, but they
keep they keep putting them off.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Where do we sit with that?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh, it's basically as our reporter carry goes road. They're
in a holding pattern and they have bitten for three decades.
They're trying to get the runway to extend to six
thousand feet. That would double the north runway at don
Scott Field, which is always used airport up near Sawmill Road,
and it's it's one of those things that the money
(06:50):
it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. It
would cost forty three million dollars to double this runway,
but that would mean more bigger corporate jets. It wouldn't
have to refuel going places. If you've ever been around
there at Mierfield, you're going to see a lot of
private jets coming in, some carrying the golfers. And it's
(07:13):
also home to a number of major users including Cardinal Health, Worthington, Steal,
Worthington Enterprises, Advanced Draining Systems which is Hilliard Base and
NetJets of course use the airport for charter flights. They
also Ohio State teaches there. They have some cessnas that
they teach flight there. They've done some upgrades to that airport,
(07:33):
but they really want to get that runway larger, but
the price keeps getting higher. It's just one of those
things their users want them to do it. Ohio State
wants to do it, but the cost.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Is really big.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So we're at this point still in a holding pattern.
Their master plan done in nineteen ninety two, called for
this runway extension, but all these recessions over the years
and other barriers have delayed the project. And again it's delayed.
So who knows if Ohio State, you know, if they
ever get that larger runway, that means more business for
Ohio State. It means corporate flyers are going to have
(08:09):
more space and have larger airplanes that can take off
and not have to refuel on the longer flight.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I wonder what the neighbors in the area feel, how
they feel about having bigger live up there.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It was loud, yeah to live up there twenty five
years ago.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It got loud.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
If it's really the bigger jets.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I was going to say, if it's loud with the
smaller private planes, and now they want to extend the
runway so they can attract bigger planes.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I wonder if it's going to be even louder and interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It's it's not like having an air Force base nearby
where you really hear those jets. This is it's it's
got some you know, it's got some noise.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Last story, Mark Sommerson, Columbus Business. First, we're getting yet
another steakhouse. I am all for that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
This one's called Losanti. It's from Cincinnati. And the interesting
thing is this isn't Franklinton. And the last thing that
was in Franklinton in this exact same spot was Taps.
Taps is a brewery from Cincinnati. They opened in twenty nineteen.
They closed last fall, and now Crown Restaurant Group is
going to Openlesante in the Gravity development in the exact
(09:16):
same spot and they're going to take over that space.
They have plans. It's about a fifty eight hundred square
feet with two thousand square feet patio. They opened at Cincinnati,
their first one in twenty nineteen. It's basically what they
call a boutique Italian steakhouse, which I think means prime
steak with some noodles on top, but I don't know.
I'm not sure what an Italian steakhouse is. I'm going
(09:38):
to have to go and find out.
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