June 05, 2008
Downtown Columbus, Ohio...............a different perspective
Tens of thousands of people head to Columbus every fall during Ohio State's football season. With a revamped downtown and a booming population the city has restyled itself from a college town into a fairly happening urban center.
For a place obsessed with college football, Columbus owes much of its revival to pro hockey. When Nationwide Arena opened in 2000, people not only came to see the Blue Jackets (the team releases 250 $10 tickets two hours before each game), but they began to spend more and more time -- and money -- in the Short North district near the arena.
Today, the neighborhood is packed with galleries, restaurants and shops. One of them, Studios on High, is a co-op with 18 members, including jewelers, printmakers and other artists. Once a month for the past 20 years, the Short North hosts “The Gallery Hop.” The first Saturday of every month, thousands converge to celebrate art and partake in the sights, sounds, food, and shopping. Galleries feature not only local artists but many nationally and internationally acclaimed artists. Street entertainers come in the form of singers, dancers, stage characters, even stilt walkers who all add to the unforgettable experience of the Gallery Hop. In December, the Gallery morphs into the “Holiday Hop.”
Columbus has become a “happening place.”
Information used was obtained in the Ohio Magazine, January 2008
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Judy Gray
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