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JPMorgan Chase plans to move its office workers from its namesake Downtown tower to its McCoy Center campus in Polaris. The move would leave a bank branch and a name as Chase's only presence at the 25-story tower, which was built in 1964 as the headquarters for Chase's Columbus predecessor. "As we look to optimize our Columbus footprint, we have made the decision to bring more employees together at our Polaris campus," said Chase spokeswoman Carlene Lule.    The tower, at 100 E. Broad St., employs a tiny fraction of Chase's 18,596 central Ohio workers, who are concentrated in the McCoy ...

Opinion: What issues are most important to you? The new opinion editor is asking Amelia Robinson, The Columbus Dispatch Video: New Dispatch opinion and community impact editor hopes to build better democracy Replay Video UP NEXT I want to get to know Columbus on a new level, and there is no better place to start than with you.  This week, I am starting my role as opinion and engagement editor for The Dispatch, and I need your help. I am from Cleveland, was educated in Athens and worked in Mansfield before spending more than two decades covering the news, writing commentary...

Todd Bemis turns the key to let himself into the theater that’s been a part of his soul for more than 40 years and walks a well-worn path he knows by heart as he flips switch after switch to bathe the darkened space in warm and comforting light. He pauses at the top of the Palace’s grand staircase, looks up at the ceiling, glances at the floor and says to no one in particular: “Hmmm, I see some plaster dust. We’ll have to see about that.” And then he descends and sits on the step near the bottom — noting that it’s the very space where theater and film legend Mickey Rooney s...

Sunny 95 Congrats to our winner, Brandy Gibb of Sunbury! Brandy won an overnight stay in an elegant Hotel LeVeque Guest Suite, in the historic LeVeque Tower downtown, where she and a guest will enjoy a Starry Night Turndown with glittering stars splashed overhead from their own in-room planetarium lighting, they will have dinner for two from The Keep restaurant with their choice of room service or at the restaurant, and in-room breakfast for two. PLUS, she will receive a beautiful pair of diamond earrings compliments of Capitol Records!  This slideshow requires JavaScript. Valentine’s Day ...

DAVE MOSIER/ independent editor Although it is a pile of rubble now, the Home Guards Temple Building was one of the city’s most luxurious structures when completed in 1906. While not as old as some downtown buildings that date to the late 1800s, its 114-year existence lasted far longer than the organization that built it. The Home Guards Temple building in its heyday as one of Van Wert’s premier downtown buildings. archival photos The Home Guards of America was the brainchild of Dr. George J. Eblen, a local physician who envisioned a fraternal organization created to provide life and acc...