Columbus CEO Recently, I asked a colleague what Downtown is like these days, how it’s doing. While our Capitol Square offices remain officially closed, he’s been working from there frequently the past few months as the company works out the details of our return-to-work plans. He says Downtown remains quiet. I’ve got to wonder—with a bit of unease—how long will it stay that way? “Quiet” was actually the same way someone else described Downtown to me during a recent conversation, but she was referring to the Downtown Columbus of 30 years ago. When Sandy Doyle-Ahern moved to Columbus from outside Philadelphia for a job, “I remember being just so surprised at how quiet Downtown was. That it really wasn’t a downtown, it was kind of a conglomerate of buildings. But there wasn’t a lot of activity occurring,” she says.