Clintonville

So with that, I decided to drive around Columbus in my car and just take snapshot of pictures between those neighborhoods that were redlined as Tier 1, those that were preferred that had access to capital, versus those that were considered or deemed hazardous based on either physical or social characteristics.

So I compared, say, a street in Linden to one in Upper Arlington, or a street on the Near East Side compared to one in Bexley or in two Columbus neighborhoods of Milo Grogan and Clintonville.

And what I found in all of those first examples were streets that had very few trees, meaning pavement, sidewalks, roofs, and parking lots were all exposed to the beating sun of the summer, where in the Clintonvilles, Bexleys, and Upper Arlington's, you had tree coverage that made them almost urban arboretums.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, low-income neighborhoods can be more than 20 degrees hotter than their wealthy counterparts.

And what we saw in our community during COVID, when we closed the rec centers, when we closed the boys and girls clubs, when we closed directions for youth and families, we saw that the age of the perpetrator and the age of the victim in those urban neighborhoods plummeted and the crime rates skyrocketed.

Good.

Cara owns Wild Root Yoga in Clintonville and has been a yoga staple in the community for years and years and years and has become a really close friend of mine.

Yeah, I love it.

Cara inspired me to take the plunge to open my second studio and in fact was very specific about the location.

Her feet are half the size of mine.

We decide, we try to get Jodi and Brock to meet, and we set it all up, and we meet at Global Gallery in Clintonville for coffee.

And we meet, and Brock is like, yeah, I mean, you guys feel like we're like, we want to work with women, women that have had breast cancer, but other things, and it's since expanded, and we'll tell you more about that.

And and he said, yeah, I mean, let's just keep talking.

The one place in Columbus that I didn't mind barbecue with just went away, and I believe it was called the Iron Grill.

It was up in Clintonville on High Street, but it's no more now.

But I always thought that place was pretty good.

I don't know where the Hoggy's is now.