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What’s the best barbecue in Central Ohio?  I read a post from one of the local food bloggers that Smackie’s on Cleveland Avenue is great.  Someone else I talked to said it was horrible.

Talking to someone from the part of the world where W. Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio intersect… or there abouts she was raving about the new Shanes Rib Joint at Polaris.  She said it was “more Southern.”

Shanes Rib Joint - More Barbecue in the Polaris Area 

Hoggy’s Polaris Area

Add your favorite Central Ohio place for barbecue under “other”  if it’s not on the list.  Say where it is located if you can, please.



Nationwide Realty Investors  will develop Grandview Yard at the old Big Bear
site in the City of Grandview Heights  according to the Columbus Dispatch, in ‘Grandview Yard’ development to replace former Big Bear site’  Wednesday.  In today’s Columbus Dispatch ‘Plan would transform old Big Bear property’  (both articles are written by Martin Rozenman) gives more details of work which should start in mid-2009.  

A mixed use development of commercial, retail and residential properties, Grandview Yard will have 600 to 800 residential properties according to the Columbus Dipatch article.  Brian Ellis of Nationwide Realty Investors described Grandview Yard as similar to the Arena Disctrict (another Nationwide Realty Investors project) without a sports theme in a presentation to the Columbus Metropolitan Club.  The development was presented in a public meeting Wednesday December 19, 2007 according to the Columbus Dispatch articles.

Reading the Dispatch articles proximity of the 100 acre development  to Ohio State University, Battelle and the OSU Medical Center and the developing “tech corridor” along 315 enticed Nationwide Realty Investors:

“100-acre site bordered by Goodale Boulevard on the south, 3rd Avenue on the north, railroad tracks on the east and an alley near Northwest Boulevard on the west.”

Grandview Heights 

Nationwide Realty Investors