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The Columbus Metropolitan Club

Each week, the Columbus Metropolitan Club hosts a forum discussion on topics that range that gamut, from business to policy to social services and more. The discussions might feature a diverse panel of experts, or it could be an interview with a high-level community or business leader, with our customary audience Q&A at the end. Whether it's something that impacts the local community or has global implications, listeners walk away educated, informed, and engaged. (All forums are recorded live in Columbus, Ohio.)

Feb 27, 2023

This week’s CMC forum looks at turning corner offices into condos in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Can empty skyscrapers be adapted into residences to help bring downtown Columbus back to life and provide new housing? Some developers are trying to do just that. It’s a transformation loaded with risk but with the...


Feb 20, 2023

We look into the future…Licking County, Ohio’s ideal future as it prepares to welcome two massive Intel semiconductor manufacturing plants - and much more growth. With Intel’s arrival imminent, parts of Licking County, Ohio will be unrecognizable 25 years from now.

Can its planners and leaders provide the right...


Feb 13, 2023

Ohio State University will soon be home to a ground-based copy of a space laboratory planned for a new commercial space station. The Ohio-based lab will be a replica of the George Washington Carver Science Park, a key science component of the “Starlab” next-generation space station.

The replica laboratory, or...


Feb 6, 2023

According to a study by the Pew Research Center, some 78% of Ohioans identify with a particular religion. With a panel of Columbus religious leaders, we discuss the role of religion in shaping society in Central Ohio, and how religion responded to the pandemic and was changed by it.  The forum also examines what happens...