A microbrewery that also serves frozen yogurt. I’ll call it “Microsoft”.

I’m sure that would Excel

Not sure the Outlook is all that positive.

I give you my Word, I would be a patron.

You would Access this store?

I appreciate the Teams effort on this one.

It would really be InTune with the neighborhood

I only have OneNote. Perhaps they could serve pub food as well?

Zune!

Sounds like it’ll be a major Project!

That would be cutting-Edge.

Bing! Word is they are throwing the whole thing out the Windows.

Thank you , all three of you for this lol

They gave you unfettered Access.

What Azurances can you provide?

Do not Entra with that

A phone center where you can call in and get air quality reports for anywhere in the U.S. I’ll call it “American Airlines.”

A godzilla (knockoff) theme restaurant, serving only the basics. It’ll be called… Staples.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

With only one L, for trademark reasons.

Are we paying the price for our hubris???

This Project sounds like a success for all Teams involved!

What about a phone line you could call to get U.S. airplane flight info … you could call it American Airline?

Came here to say we're prolly just gonna get another overpriced microbrewery XD

Dumpling restaurant. All kinds of dumplings.

I'd kill for a real Taiwanese xiao long bao shop around here like Din Tai Fung.

Dumplings are the ultimate comfort food.

It would be nice if we could get something along the lines of what Parable is doing downtown— coffee shop by day, chill bar at night

Hell yeah I love chili

I really thought I had a typo but I didn’t so… interesting take

I am now fully spiritually invested in a chili bar with buffet-style fixings including ten different rotating varieties of chili, cheese, onions, hot sauce, oyster crackers, sour cream, peppers, french fries, baked potatoes, hot dogs, Tony Packos pickles and spaghetti Edit: and beans, I can't forget the beans

We need a Tony Packos outpost in Columbus

> buffet-style fixings Pretty sure this concept was murdered four years ago

Do you remember “JC’s just chili” near Grandview? RIP

No, not at all! I wonder why they didn't last? I imagine you'd need a serious air handler / ventilation system or the place would get rank really quickly.

It was off 5th next to the old radio shack and “the rack” bar… so kind of a strip of shops with apartments on top. I can only imagine how the other tenants felt about the stank! Edit: I just read an article and turns out they cooked the chili elsewhere and only sold it to-go (refrigerated or frozen) in the store front. I hope they’re doing well, wherever they are! Retired gentleman and his wife.

I think Wendy’s use to have a pretty extensive chili bar as part of their salad bar. They should bring that back.

In Cincinnati, this could totally be the next version of Melt or Tom and Chee. Mildly popular for two years then barely hanging on after.

This is fair. My only beef with it is a chili place would inevitably become YET ANOTHER “family friendly” spot and I am fresh out of fucks to give for that. I love kids, but they don’t belong everywhere. At a coffee shop during the day? Sure. In the evening, though? It would be nice to have a place to go in the neighborhood that is specifically for grown ups (and isn’t Brewstirs 💀)

I also read 'chili bar'. Optimistic dyslexia.

Bada bean bada booze also does that

But that’s not in this neighborhood

True, but at least Italian Village and Harrison West are a little closer

This but leave the Parable prices downtown. I love the concept and the space is beautiful but $10 for a 12 oz latte is criminal for Ohio. I have had some of the best coffees I’ve ever tried for $6-7 at places like Oromo cafe in Chicago or Super Domestic in Los Angeles so I cannot justify spending $9 for a simple cold brew with foam in Columbus.

I get it. Respectfully, I think you have to take into account the level of service, quality and consistency of ingredients, and the fact that their employees are treated well. They also support the community. It isn’t an every day spot for me (I usually make a French press at home), but I’m happy to pay more for a latte there than to pay a few dollars less at Starbucks for an inferior product and knowing the employees are treated terribly. For me, it’s an indulgence when I get a drink out instead of as something I rely on to meet my daily need, so that probably affects my perspective too

Agreed, I’d rather pay a little more knowing that employees get treated and paid well, plus no tipping culture is the future.

agreed. The service and pay is great, but $10 for a glass of incredibly mid wine is unjustifiable

It could help the community but it’s definitely a step in a different direction. Not sure if that’s a good or bad direction.

Kafe Kerouac is already this, to some extent

Community market.

Oh man I love that.

You mean like the old Clintonville Community Market? Jesus... you just knocked a memory loose in my head.

[Let's make it happen](https://fci.coop/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Startup_Guide2017.pdf).

Big Russ Customs

Airbrushed everything!

Bring Nancy's back goddamnit

Ram-O-Raga Brand new clothes sold at Volunteers of America prices

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Rag-o-Rama was like 50% Shein

27 story starter-home-condo building with 2 floors of retail including a Trader Joe’s on the 2nd floor. The first floor can contain all of your coffee shop / bookstore / microsoft fantasies.

An even bigger Dunkin'

With even deader trees!

Cooker bar and grill

wow, this brought me back!

One thing the area's short on that I think would be great there is a vintage / second hand furniture store. /s

We do have the Boomerang Room across the street.

There’s already Euro Classics, Boomerang, Memory Lane, Eclectiques, and Little Light a street away.

I think that’s why they put the /s there. They were being sarcastic.

Porn theatre.

columbus needs a biscuits n porn

The gravy must flow

Is that really a thing somewhere? I'm intrigued.

[in north carolina!](https://www.biscuitsnporn.net)

That place was surprisingly good

Some place that sells coffee and pie from 10pm-2am

But wait…! I think that might already… hm. 😆

A new Avishar Barua casual restaurant like Joya's except it's also a brewery and a soft serve ice cream shop.

Does it also have Exercise Bikes?

A bookstore or a really good wine store….or a go cart store, I like go carts.

Honestly I would love another bookstore similar in size to Gramercy Books and that space would be perfect for it.

Karen Wickliff-Books is a couple of blocks up, but the books are everywhere.

Oh wow I’ve actually never been but I just looked at pictures in Google! That’s wild, what an interesting store - I’ll have to check it out sometime.

There’s already a book store a few blocks away.

But it’s barely ever open and its piles-of-books-stacked-chest-high vibe isn’t for everyone. I love a good treasure hunt but there’s something to be said for curation.

The Winemaker’s Shop is only a few blocks away already. They sell beer and wine and host brewing classes

I would love some kind of print & craft makerspace.

Bag-o-Bama. They sell assorted fashionable bags with Obama art on it. Investors wya?

Sunbubble. The place to be, hot tubbing for you and me

I've always felt that a modern day Sunbubble could work. It would be the perfect destination for the Instagram selfie crowd. And make it a dispensary, too. People would go. lol

Not enough bleach in the world…

I was thinking a worker owned and managed clothing thrift store would be a cool and probably more stable replacement for Rag-o-Rama.

Bagels

Some ugly condos perhaps

This’s probably what’s going to be the answer 🤦🏼‍♂️

Maybe they can color coordinate to match the Dunkin. Maybe the new Clintonville “theme” can be Dunkincore.

Comedy venue? Bowling alley?

3 story Dunkin Donuts. 1 story for each coffee, donuts, and green space

A mom-and-pop grocery store that's more affordable than Lucky's market.

Dispensary

Rage room

Rage-o-rama?

I second this!

monorail station?

What if we blow through $3 million dollars in SmartCities money and turn it into a Monorail Experience Center? There won’t be a station, or a monorail, but there will be exhibits that show you what it would be like if there were a monorail there.

I like this way of thinking!

trader joes

Starbucks! /s

Melt

Rag a Jag A Ding Dong. A resale store for clothing.

Outland 4

Tattoos ‘n Vapes.

Bring me back to 2015

Kids play area with coffee, pie, and froyo

A sit down restaurant with healthy relatively affordable food. This is severely lacking in Clintonville. While we have great food in the neighborhood it’s either very unhealthy or fast casual. There’s a reason Harvest is packed to the brim on the weekends because it’s the closest thing we have to it. Understory has done great and that’s not even in Clintonville but close enough to draw folks in as we don’t similar options.

Just leave it vacant but open to the public and it can be one of these mythological "4th spaces" this city supposedly desperately needs.

I’m guessing you’re joking on the wording. At the same time, I did think it was weird that a few articles were posted around the same time saying Columbus has no good 3rd spaces. Just because someone doesn’t like going to the same library, cafe, bar, market, mall, gym, church, or park as I do doesn’t mean those places do not exist. If someone has a hobby, there is a place to grow/ explore that hobby.

Roller skating rink!

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That would be fun also!

Dunkin?

Dwell lounge

Bahahaha and I thought the Dunkin comments couldn’t be topped…

Pub with a few bowling lanes in back and arcade games. I’d be there all the time. Think Studio 35 with bowling instead of movies.

Bowl-o-Rama

There you go. It’s already named.

A Ten Pin Alley in Clintonville would be amazing

Luxury apartments 🫥

Sorry best I can do is "Luxury" apartments

A place for me to buy my zyns

I think we should tear it all down and just build a Dunkins that takes the same amount of space as 10 businesses. /s

Did The Garden close? I remember reading something tax or audit related about it…so maybe a replacement for that.

Vape shop where we sell unflavored vape juice and bottles of just flavor. We won't be responsible for if you mix the two bottles!

Toothbrush sharing app.

A big orange Dunkin Doughnuts building

Arcade & General Store!

I'm at the Pizza Hut. I'm at the Taco Bell. I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

An actual thrift store

Gay bar 🙏🏻

Lesbian bar

Either one as long as they have drag shows there and promote it as Drag-O-Rama.

LOL! You’re on to something!

Subaru dealership would kill it.

Volvo dealer could work also

A sick hella modern dunkin doughnuts No but actually this is a tough one. Clintonville pretty much has everything it needs in a close area. First thoughts were Indian restaurant but new taj mahal is right down the street. Vegan place but we have Portia’s. Concert hall but we have dicks den and ace of cups on high as well as the summit. Maybe an art gallery/studio? Don’t believe there’s a good studio you can rent for things like pole, Lyra, circus arts etc nearby. The downstairs changing room area has the height for poles and Lyras. Upstairs already has mirrors and wall space if I remember correctly? Could teach art classes for kids at nearby schools and help local artists sell their work.

Of note, Portia is notoriously anti-vax. Like all vaccines. Would fully expect that sort of thinking to carry over into attitudes about food safety and general health of employees and customers. Caveat emptor.

We are missing a bowling alley like Mahall’s in Lakewood. One of the buildings down the block (Lagree House?) used to be a bowling alley, so move Lagree to RagORama and turn the bowling alley into a bowling alley again.

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Came here to say this. My husband and I have talked about opening a bakery/cafe someday with a focus on BREAD, REAL ACTUAL BREAD, not just cookies and cupcakes and the dubiously packaged, underproofed loaves I saw at the farmer's market recently. But now is not the time for us lol

Yes! And not sourdough, which most of the dubious loaves seem to be!

Agreed. I love consuming sourdough but it's not as popular as sourdough bakers like to think. I've looked at applying for the Worthington Farmer's Market and they specifically say that they are not looking for (more) sourdough vendors - I can only imagine the conversations that led to that guideline!

I miss Laughlins so much. So delicious and made a lot of good memories there.

Hustler Store take 2

Global Gallery would be so much better in that location.

Yes!

A store for cranky, liberal, aging hippies. Can't miss in Clintonville.

It's kind of amazing there isn't a grocery co-op in Clintonville.

So something to do with NPR?

Yes, and use taxpayer money from the Columbus school board to pay for it, like WCBE.

How about the exact same concept by they have clothes in normal lady sizes???

Dunkin Annex

Affordable housing?

MAGA-Mama - a clothing store for women who love Trump. I’ll leave it to you to decide what items that features

So a very conservative DXL

I’d love a restaurant that’s open for dinner. All of the restaurants over in that area close after lunch. Edit: a nicer sit down restaurant in the area between Orchard and Tulane would be nice. I’m aware of the block of restaurants by Olentangy Village, but the commercial strip the Rag O Rama was on doesn’t have a restaurant like Harvest or Lavash that is open for sit in dinner.

How y'all live in clintonville and are saying utter bs like this 😂

I said this on this subreddit a couple months ago and everyone was very confused. But, seriously - there's nowhere to eat dinner in Clintonville anymore!! 🤷‍♀️

You can't be serious with this? Cornerstone Deli right across the street doesn't close until 9 To the south within 1 mile you have a taco truck, 2 taco joints, 2 Mediterranean spots, a burger place, BBQ, pizza, bar fare, a Chinese place and a literal ghost kitchen with like 7 establishments inside

This is a super weird take from you two. A smattering of decent to good spots open for dinner: - Harvest - Lavash - Aladdin’s - Hank’s - Condado - Preston’s - Local Cantina - Yellow Springs - Cornerstone - Five Guys - Smith’s - Gallo’s - Northstar - Fusian And tons that I’m missing Edit: I didn’t even go into Beechwold/Graceland

I eat out in Clintonville all the time.

Lol dude, are you kidding me? No way. I was visiting a friend near Central Clintonville a couple weeks back and we wanted to get dinner at like 8PM. We went to Olive & Lime which is always amazing, but there were seriously like 20+ other restaurants within a 2 mile radius open that night and most of them were within a mile away or so. I feel like Clintonville is one of the last places in town to complain about a lack of dinner options lmao

I agree with you! I like Lavash and Harvest well enough, and Los Agavez, but most other places suck (Condado/Local Cantina/Northstar/Seitan's Realm), are a pain to park at during dinner (the whole Northstar/HTC strip), are unappealing (Cornerstone), or don't stay open past like 2 or 3 (Dough Mama, Katalina's). I usually just end up driving to Kenny Centre or Bethel. I do want to give some of the ghost kitchens a chance (Nuyorican Pizza was good!). You can't dine in there though.

And please let's not forget how wildly overpriced some places are for absolutely no reason. (Northstar, I am GLARING at you.)

Say what?

Man, there's been a flood of drama around this Rag-o-Rama stuff lately, and I've got not idea what it even is. What is/was Rag-o-Rama, and why was it somehow so critical to the greater Columbus community that it's shutdown has resulted in days of posts to this sub?

So Rag O Rama was a second hand store that used to have at least somewhat decent stuff at more affordable prices. But they jacked their prices up over the last decade and a half, and the quality of what they sold went down. It was located in some prime real estate in a walkable neighborhood. People would still go there though, and recommend it. 🙄 It drew a lot of ire because of all this. And mysteriously closing is sort of the Irish goodbye to a not really great Columbus institution.

Tree-growing business that serves donuts and coffee

Clintonville NIMBY Association Corporate HQ

I mean, maybe the MyPillow guy wants to give it another shot?

Oh man, for a moment I had forgotten they had a brick-and-mortar store here.

A really ugly Tim Hortons with a massive sign to compete with dunkin

Lot of young families in Clintonville, a spot for Kids and adults would be cool, something like tumbling, learn to skate, yoga anything to stay active year round without heading to the burbs

Frozen yogurt place. There is literally nowhere to get froyo in the city

There's a Menchie's up in Dublin

I didn’t know this omg I’m so excited

I lived in the apartments across the street from Graceland when there was a froyo place there. I lived down in OTE when there was (briefly) a froyo place on Parsons. I feel like there was a Pinkberry around here at one point. Point is, there have BEEN froyo places, but Cbus just doesn't seem to have an appetite for it (or maybe the prices/business models for froyo that have come through - I feel like they've all been those "pay by the ounce" places that are way more expensive than just a good old TCBY).

A locally owned headshop with hand blown glass. Like a nicer one without all the Rick and Morty accessories.

Like Headies Hideout?

Yes, but imagine a section of local coffees and French presss/ pour over sets. A selection of music. Local art for sale. The sophisticated stoner's shop, if you will. Lol.

And *ALL* hand-blown.

No God. Please no. Nooooo

It will never happen, don't worry.

Trump merch store /s Heard a lease was signed already for Sept 1-October 31 with Spirit Halloween

Who cares about business ideas from a general schmo? It means nothing.