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☘️ Dublin Area Events
☘️ Local Weather
☘️ A Happy Hour Conversation is Changing Bridge Park
☘️ Riverside Bank is expanding in Dublin
☘️ Did a $1B Startup Use a Dublin Patent?
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Upcoming events
Dublin Area Events
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Thursday
Miniature Paint and Take Night — 5 PM at 249 W. Bridge St
Outdoors at North High Brewing in Dublin — 6 PM at North High Brewing. Live music on the patio
Planning & Zoning Commission — 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM at Council Chambers
Friday
FREE Weekly Walking Group — 9 AM at 6017 Post Rd
Juneteenth — 10 AM to 11 AM at Brown-Harris Cemetery
Couples Twilight Golf — 6 PM at 5805 Eiterman Rd
MtG Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease — 7 PM at 249 W. Bridge St
Saturday
Crohn’s & Colitis Central Ohio Take Steps — 9 AM to 11:30 PM at Coffman Park. Join the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s largest fundraising event to accelerate breakthroughs in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research.
The Dublin Market at Bridge Park — 9 AM to 12 PM at Bridge Park
Columbus Children's Festival — 10 AM at 6314 Cosgray Rd
Sunday
12th International Yoga Day — 6 AM at 5200 Emerald Pkwy
D&D Adventurers' League at Beyond the Board — 1 PM at Beyond the Board
Fado Pub & Kitchen Sunday Session — 4 PM at Fado Pub and Kitchen
Coffman Homestead Tour — 1-3 PM at 5200 Emerald Parkway with parking available at the Municipal Building lot or the nearby Coffman Park spaces.
Monday
Finance Committee — 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM at Council Chambers
JR Game Coding — At 7020 Hospital Drive
Stop Motion Animation — At 7020 Hospital Drive
Junior Golf Camp — 9:30 AM at 5805 Eiterman Rd
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Local News
A Happy Hour Conversation is Changing Bridge Park
If you've been watching Bridge Park fill in over the last few years, one of the most ambitious additions yet is now taking shape. Crawford Hoying and Cameron Mitchell are partnering on a hotel at the 4.5-acre corner of Riverside Drive and West Granville Road, just south of the 161 roundabout — and it'll be Mitchell's first foray into hotels after 30 years in the restaurant business.
In a recent interview on Dublin's Link Ahead podcast, Mitchell shared that the whole thing started over drinks — a casual happy hour conversation with Crawford Hoying's Brent Crawford that turned into a seven-story, 130-room boutique hotel with four Cameron Mitchell dining concepts, a rooftop pool bar, a 4,000-square-foot ballroom, and an adjacent eight-story tower with about 24 luxury condos. The spa piece also just got more concrete: Panacea Luxury Spa announced it'll be the exclusive spa partner, taking over more than 17,000 square feet on the second floor.
Construction is expected to start this year, with the hotel opening around 2028.
It's a big swing for Bridge Park — and worth keeping an eye on as that corner of Riverside and Granville starts to take shape.
Local News
Riverside Bank is expanding in Dublin
Riverside Bank is opening its new Bridge Park branch on Monday, and if you've never banked with them, it might be worth a look.
Riverside has a pretty good origin story: they got approved to open a bank the same week COVID shut everything down. Bad timing doesn't really cover it. They had to hit pause and didn't actually open until February 2021 — and even then, it didn't look like a traditional bank. The original branch was tucked into a suite on the second floor of a regular office building over at Metro Place North, the kind you'd walk into and see a receptionist, not a bank lobby. Business grew fast anyway, enough that a real, stand-alone bank building followed in 2023 on a busy stretch of road, and Riverside has gone on to become one of the fastest-growing banks in Ohio.
The bigger commercial side has grown fast too — fast enough that Riverside kept running into its own lending limit, capped at $3 million.
Their biggest deal to date ran $9 million, which meant splitting it with bigger banks just to get it done. That's part of why Riverside is now being bought by NexTier, a larger Pennsylvania bank. Once the deal closes, that limit jumps to $20 million — same hometown relationships, just enough room now to actually close the bigger ones themselves.
If you've been less than thrilled with your regional bank, here's one more reason to make the switch: Riverside now has a second spot, opening Monday in Bridge Park. Worth a look.
Local News
Did a $1B Startup Use a Dublin Patent?
Troy Doucet is a Dublin litigation attorney who spent years running his own law firm out of Metro Place South before building something unexpected: an AI platform that helps lawyers draft legal documents the way experienced litigators actually work. He patented the core technology last November.
This week, he filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Eve Legal — a San Francisco AI startup that just hit a $1 billion valuation after raising money from Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital — built its platform using the precise methods his patent covers. According to reporting by the ABA Journal, AI.Law alleges Eve Legal's tool can't deliver the documents it advertises without using what Doucet says he invented first. AI.Law says it put Eve Legal on notice twice before filing and got no substantive response.
Eve Legal hasn't publicly responded to the allegations yet.
A solo Dublin attorney with a patent, going after a billion-dollar San Francisco startup. Not a bad fight to have a front-row seat to.
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