Franklinton Forever

The wall that is the 315 overpass has fallen, and the gentrifiers are well on their way.

There’s a quote that 62-year-old Wayne Street, a certified Franklinton Freak, gave The Columbus Dispatch two years ago about the neighborhood that I can recite from memory.

“[The Bottoms are] a wild area,” Street said. “And I’m a pretty wild fella myself.”

That’s the ethos I’ve tried to bring to the neighborhood since I accidentally arrived in 2018 on the…