Hard Road Is Telling Us Something

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☘️ Dublin Area Events

☘️ Dublin’s Fleet Just Made The Top 100 List

☘️ The Old Oscar’s Space in Historical Dublin Finally Has a Tenant

☘️ The Vote on Hard Road Might Be a Preview

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Most of us don't think much about who keeps the city's trucks running. Turns out, the people doing it here are among the best in the Americas at it.

Dublin's Fleet Division — the team that maintains and replaces city vehicles, tracks snowplows in real time, and manages the city's shift toward electric vehicles — just earned a spot on the 100 Best Fleets in the Americas list, one of the fleet industry's most respected rankings.

It's a pretty obscure honor for most of us, but the work behind it isn't. Every time a snowplow shows up on your street or a parks crew has what they need, that's these folks. They also run public EV charging infrastructure and support Dublin's Sustainable2050 goals — the stuff that keeps the city functioning quietly in the background while the rest of us go about our day.

Worth knowing who's earning us those kinds of stripes.

Local News

Remember the Oscar's space on North High Street? It's been sitting empty since early 2024, when a 30-year Dublin institution closed its doors. A plan to knock it down for a boutique hotel fell through — and now something genuinely interesting is moving in instead.

NomaEn is a Kyoto-inspired omakase concept headed by Master Chef Taishi Noma, who comes from Ginko in Cleveland and Haiku here in Columbus. The centerpiece is an intimate 10-seat sushi bar focused on precision and seasonal menus — the kind of experience where the chef decides what you're eating. Alongside it, a members-only lounge designed around cultural connection. It's a very different energy than what Historic Dublin has seen before.

The catch: it won't open until Spring 2027. But after two years of that corner sitting vacant, it's good to know something worth waiting for is coming. Full story at Columbus Business First here.

Local News

The Columbus City Council voted 8–1 this week to approve 112 new apartments along Hard Road on the city's far northwest side — completely overruling its own Development Commission, which had rejected the same project 5–2.

The neighbors who showed up to fight it raised familiar concerns: density, traffic, the feeling that something was being changed without their consent. Council members didn't disagree that change was happening. They just argued it had to. Columbus has a housing shortage, rents are rising, and the people who teach in local schools and staff local hospitals need somewhere to live.

Nobody was wrong, exactly. That's what made it uncomfortable.

Hard Road runs right past Dublin Scioto, so yes — this lands in Dublin City Schools. At 112 units it's not going to show up in any enrollment numbers that matter, but it's a reminder that the growth pressure on this corner of Central Ohio doesn't stop at our city limits.

None of this has easy answers. We're having our own version of this conversation — in the redistricting debate, in the west side rezoning vote. The question of what kind of place we want to be keeps coming up. Worth paying attention to.

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