The Lantern wrote C-Bus more than riots and football
John Cropper
Issue date: 3/4/08
In 2007 several major media outlets looked at our not-so-cowtown-anymore city in a positive light. In September The New York Times featured Columbus as a “Midwestern style capital,” referencing the Short North and our flagship brands such as the Limited and Abercrombie & Fitch. On the same day the Times led their U.S. section with a story about Bexley’s Jeff Frank and his Drexel Movie Theater.
Columbus might be quickly transforming into the “full-blown metropolis” that Mayor Michael B. Coleman reassures us of at every turn. That’s not what people are noticing, though. It’s the Short North, the Arts District, German, Italian and Victorian villages and the one-screen movie theaters that pine for simpler times. It’s the boutique shops and chainless restaurants. It’s the unexplainable small town, big city feel. It’s all of that and more, wrapped up in a swathe of Midwestern attitude.
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