Downtown Columbus as Arts Hub

I am from Minnesota, and Minneapolis is a city that really cares about their arts. The Minnesota Orchestra owns their own hall so they can display their Music Director, Osmo Vänskä, or whomever they want, as big and large as they want. They are even planning a $90 million renovation of their concert hall, which was only built in 1974! Various real estate planners there realized long ago that people will want to live downtown if there is a good reason, like being able to WALK to see the symphony. Not many want to live in a downtown Columbus condo because there’s NOTHING THERE. Columbus has not realized the possibility of using the orchestra for its own benefit. The corner of Broad and High is a gaudy, spectacular façade, with nothing behind it; just a bunch of lights, bells and whistles. How about something real to brag about? The CSO resides in a recessed alley away from the street- the part that faces the street is CAPA territory and they do what they want with it, which is nothing but a marquee, the CHEAP solution. Julia Rose