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EDITORIAL
The costs of community amenities dont end once built
Long before placemaking became a buzzword in economic development parlance, industrialist J. Irwin Miller was making Columbus a place for internationally recognized architecture.
As writer Sam Stall reported for IBJ earlier this month, Miller did it because, as the leader of Columbus-based engine-maker Cummins Inc., he wanted to make the small city a place that would attract world-class engineering talent.
Millers vision in the mid20th century made Columbus rank sixth in the nation on the American Institute of Architects list of top cities for architectural design, behind only Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
Now, however, some of those landmark buildings require major repairs or need to be repurposed altogether. And Columbus experiences serve as...