Right Now Downtown

ROOM RAIDERS/DOWNTOWN EDITION

It’s time to make a little Hoopla over the Hop.  The annual City Hop is experiencing a tenth year “itch.”  After a perfect decade of tours, the organizers were itching for some changes.  So this weekend’s City Hop promises to be divine… but distinctly different.

1.  It turns out that people actually live downtown.
In years past, the tour featured model homes.  This year’ models are real homes where people eat and sleep and dream.  Visitors get to stroll through personalized, inhabited spaces.

(And for the record, Ms. Manners says that it’s still a no-no to peak into the medicine cabinets).

2.  People actually eat downtown too.
This year’s June 12 preview party features a progressive dinner that passes through even more downtown living quarters.  Dawon Hawkins is one of the hosts and will open his home for the pre-show.  While he’s too modest to say his stop is the best, Hawkins does admit to decorating with amazing stuff.  “In my condo, you’ll find a painting of an alien with a broken heart and a red balloon, a 100-year-old farmhouse workbench I found at Grandview Mercantile, and walls painted in hues of sage, flax and moss.  For me, it works.”

3.  Real homes, real food – you’ll find real people here too.
When he’s not playing host, Hawkins is the Association President at Sixty Spring condominiums.  He says he loves living downtown and sharing his passion for the neighborhood… and he also shops for groceries, just like everybody else.

Ask him about it this weekend at City Hop.

Tags: City Hop, Downtown Columbus

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