When we're talking dollars in the billions, what does that really do for the overall expectations and growth of the city of Columbus?

It's vital to the Columbus and Franklin County's economy.

A couple of things on the $8.6 billion.

90% of that $8.6 billion is new money into our community.

so it's not circulating and people spending it in different areas that comes from 50 miles or more outside of our community so that drives additional dollars for small businesses in addition to that it saves each household in franklin county about sixteen hundred dollars a year in taxes So if the economy, the travel economy went away, people would be paying an additional $1,600 per year in taxes.

So it's the jobs, it's the household income that it helps grow.

And of course, the additional taxes that come into the community through the city and the county and one of the big tax generations is sales tax.

And how do we kind of get that perception from being... columbus's kind of old you know smaller city reputation of being kind of overshadowed by our cincinnati and cleveland to being this place that hey look at what we have how do we work past that how do we get people to recognize all of the things that we do have here