Columbus Development News - Page 15

Chadoh25 · January 26th, 2012, 07:58 PM

Housing proposed on city-owned Hilltop site
Units planned for low-income and senior tenants

By Mark Ferenchik
The Columbus Dispatch Saturday January 21, 2012 6:15 AM

A Westerville developer wants to buy a long-vacant city-owned property on the Hilltop to build a housing complex for senior citizens as well as single-family homes.

The Woda Group LLC plans to ask the city to rezone the 22.5 acres off Wheatland Avenue just north of W. Broad Street.

The company wants to build the project in three phases, said Greg Large, the zoning chairman for the Greater Hilltop Area Commission.

The first phase would be 60 rental units in an L-shaped building toward the back of the property, with construction beginning in 2013, Large said. Forty-two units for senior citizens would be built after that. Plans also call for 33 homes, Large said. Those could be sold or rented, said Tom Simons, a senior vice president of the Woda Group.

The company has an option to buy about 6 acres for the first phase and would develop the $10 m illion project along with the nonprofit group Homes on the Hill, Simons said.

A resident of the first phase could not have income of more than $28,381 a year. That would qualify the project for low-income-housing tax credits and federal money, said Rita Parise, the city’s housing administrator.

Geoff Phillips, who sits on the zoning committee and lives in the Highland West neighborhood near the site, wonders whether people will be able to afford the single-family homes.

“Why are we adding more when we have so many vacant structures on the Hilltop?” Phillips said. “ What I want for the area is mixed-income” housing.

Developers met with the area commission’s zoning committee on Thursday and plan to return on Feb. 2 to address questions about traffic and the site’s cleanup, Large said.

Columbus has long sought to redevelop the property — behind the Columbus West Family Health and Wellness Center — as an anchor for the neighborhood, which is struggling with blight and a decaying commercial strip along W. Broad.

The city spent $1.7 million to buy and clean up the land, which was the site of part of the Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital until it was razed in 1988. Crews removed contaminated soil, asbestos and other debris.

Other attempts to redevelop the site have failed.

The city and Dominion Homes announced a plan in December 2003 to put 106 homes there. But the builder backed out because of the falling housing market and the cost to clean up the property.

Three doctors who expressed interest in building medical offices there in 2010 also changed their minds.

mferenchik@dispatch.com

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...ltop-site.html

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 02:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mudhen419

Blue jackets to host 2013 NHL allstar game!!

Okay ENOUGH already. Stop with the bullshit posts. If you can SOMEHOW connect the Blue Jackets hosting the 2013 NHL Allstars game with a DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (the new FBI building, Columbia Gas, or Nationwide building), then fine. Please have at it! But you posting random sports BS is getting old. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT a sports thread. Just like with the OSU post, this one does not belong here, so stop it otherwise I'm sure a mod will do it for you!

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 02:26 AM

Arena District updates.

Feb 5th, 2012

New Nationwide building.

Corner of Front Street and Nationwide Blvd.

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 02:33 AM

Arena District updates.

Feb 5th, 2012

New Hilton hotel.

North High Street.

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 02:54 AM

Arena District updates.

Feb 5th, 2012

New FBI building site.

Located between Spring Street & Nationwide Blvd and Fletcher and Hanover Streets

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 03:01 AM

Arena District updates.

Feb 5th, 2012

Renovated structure, purpose unknown (atleast to me).

Located between Spring Street & Nationwide Blvd and Hanover and Cozzins Streets

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 03:09 AM

Victorian Village updates.

Feb 5th, 2012

The Leafy Dale. Renovated apartment building.

Dennison Avenue.

All photos were taken by me.

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 03:10 AM

Leafy Dale Adds New Apartments to Victorian Village

By: Walker, Columbus Underground
Published on January 12, 2012

The Wood Companies are already busy with construction on High Street with their apartment building development over top of Northstar Cafe, but that’s not stopping them from already moving on to their next big project: The Leafy Dale.

Constructed in 1895 as a hotel, the Leafy Dale building stands tall at 789 Dennison Avenue, a half-block northwest of Goodale Park. “The building has been vacant for about five years,” says Mark Wood, President of The Wood Companies. “A couple of other developers tried to redevelop it into condos a few years ago and ran out of money before they were able to finish it.”

The Wood Companies stepped in recently to buy the Leafy Dale, and is currently working on construction documents to move forward with building out 26 apartment units for rent.

http://www.columbusunderground.com/l...torian-village

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 03:14 AM

County delays casino-area zoning plan

By Lucas Sullivan, The Columbus Dispatch
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The Franklin County commissioners have scrapped a zoning plan for the area around the new Hollywood Casino Columbus because businesses owners voiced their disapproval.

The commissioners voted yesterday to postpone action for a year to give their economic-development team more time to collaborate with property owners near the Westland Mall.

The development team had asked the commissioners to approve the zoning plan in December, but businesses expressed frustrations over how the county’s proposal would jell with zoning in the city of Columbus.

Some land near the $400 million casino is in Columbus, and some is in unincorporated areas of Franklin County.

Columbus passed its zoning overlay — the rules and construction guidelines for development — almost a year ago. Those rules specified a neighborhood business district that would be more like N. High Street in Clintonville than the Morse Road area near Northland.

Some business owners told county commissioners that the city’s zoning will encourage business growth because it provides specific rules and regulations on subjects such as building setbacks.

James Schimmer, the county’s economic-development director, said yesterday that the proposed county zoning is not much different, but he wants more buy-in from property owners before proceeding.

“We still have the market study that we plan to follow, but this is a large area with multiple jurisdictions and different types of owners, so we want to make sure we have what is best for the area,” Schimmer said. “We want to have an agreed-upon plan from everyone because we are talking about development that will happen as long as 20 years down the road.”

A recent market analysis by a Maryland-based consulting firm suggested an open-air shopping plaza at the Westland Mall site that could attract a big-box anchor such as Bass Pro Shop and lead to 2,650 spinoff jobs near the casino. The consultant said the Penn National Gaming casino also would support hotels and restaurants.

The casino, being built at the site of the former Delphi auto-parts plant, is expected to create 2,000 jobs and is supposed to open late this year. Columbus annexed the site from Franklin Township.

“Everyone wants to make this a vibrant area once again,” said auto-dealer Chris Haydocy. “It’s incumbent upon everyone that is invested out here that there is a higher standard. I think it’s a good idea to take a step back to make sure we get buy-in from everyone.”

Haydocy, who leads the Western Vision group that is trying to revitalize the area near the casino, said business owners want a uniform zoning code that addresses proper landscaping, building materials, signage and building regulations. He said everyone wants sidewalks.

“There’s a 1.2-mile section from I-270 down to Wilson Road that doesn’t have sidewalks and absolutely needs it,” he said. “Sidewalks are off the table of discussion. We have to have them in the area.”

Schimmer said he will spend the year devising a plan with business leaders’ input, and he will present it to commissioners in January 2013.

lsullivan@dispatch.com

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...ning-plan.html

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 03:29 AM

Italian Village updates.

Feb 5th, 2012

Russell at Kerr building. New constrution.

Corner of Kerr and Russell Street.

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 03:57 AM

Downtown updates.

Feb 5th, 2012

Old Central Police Station. Renovated and expanded.

Marconi Blvd.

Chadoh25 · February 8th, 2012, 04:27 PM

Old Town East updates.

Feb 1th, 2012

The Charles. New constrution.

Long Street.

GarfieldPark · February 8th, 2012, 10:55 PM

Mudhen419: "Blue jackets to host 2013 NHL allstar game!!"

Chadoh25: "Okay ENOUGH already. Stop with the bullshit posts. If you can SOMEHOW connect the Blue Jackets hosting the 2013 NHL Allstars game with a DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (the new FBI building, Columbia Gas, or Nationwide building), then fine. Please have at it! But you posting random sports BS is getting old. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT a sports thread. Just like with the OSU post, this one does not belong here, so stop it otherwise I'm sure a mod will do it for you!"

REALLY?!

Considering you (Chadoh25) are about the only person posting on this Columbus development thread - I'd think you'd be thrilled that someone else is finding a few different things and posting them here as well. In my opinion -- "Development" relates to anything that is helping to grow a city. Major sports events that bring people in from all across the country (and from Canada in the case of the NHL) are very important for helping to fill hotels, restaurants and bars. With more of these types of events and conventions, etc. - the demand continues to increase for new restaurants, hotels and other visitor oriented venues.

Columbus has developed an entire area of its downtown around the Nationwide Sports arena. The restaurants and hotels around there do well when more events occur there. More restaurants, bars and businesses make the area more attractive for additional residents. This means more apartments and condos will be built.

Having more big events like the NHL All Star game brings more attention to the city. If the city and its arena look good and exciting on national television -- it could help attract people to visit and maybe even consider the city as a location for a potential business expansion.

Columbus could probably use some more national attention -- and hosting an exciting NHL All Star game might be one way to help do that.

BTW -- Columbus' sister city to the West --- Indianapolis - has been working to attract major sporting events for decades - and has recently received huge amounts of national and international attention for very successfully hosting the most recent Super Bowl. Having tens of thousands of wealthy, influential business leaders from New York and Boston in the city for the past week undoubtedly will lead to some future important new developments for the city. Numerous major convention organizers were brought into town to see what the city is like - and how well it can handle major events of all types. I have no doubt that at least several of these 15,000 - 30,000 person conventions will make positive decisions to hold their events in Indy after seeing how well things went with Super Bowl XLVI.

I think you're being very narrow-minded to think that hosting an NHL All Star game is not an important, development-related event for the city of Columbus.

Chadoh25 · February 9th, 2012, 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GarfieldPark

Mudhen419: "Blue jackets to host 2013 NHL allstar game!!"

Chadoh25: "Okay ENOUGH already. Stop with the bullshit posts. If you can SOMEHOW connect the Blue Jackets hosting the 2013 NHL Allstars game with a DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (the new FBI building, Columbia Gas, or Nationwide building), then fine. Please have at it! But you posting random sports BS is getting old. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT a sports thread. Just like with the OSU post, this one does not belong here, so stop it otherwise I'm sure a mod will do it for you!"

REALLY?!

Considering you (Chadoh25) are about the only person posting on this Columbus development thread - I'd think you'd be thrilled that someone else is finding a few different things and posting them here as well. In my opinion -- "Development" relates to anything that is helping to grow a city. Major sports events that bring people in from all across the country (and from Canada in the case of the NHL) are very important for helping to fill hotels, restaurants and bars. With more of these types of events and conventions, etc. - the demand continues to increase for new restaurants, hotels and other visitor oriented venues.

Columbus has developed an entire area of its downtown around the Nationwide Sports arena. The restaurants and hotels around there do well when more events occur there. More restaurants, bars and businesses make the area more attractive for additional residents. This means more apartments and condos will be built.

Having more big events like the NHL All Star game brings more attention to the city. If the city and its arena look good and exciting on national television -- it could help attract people to visit and maybe even consider the city as a location for a potential business expansion.

Columbus could probably use some more national attention -- and hosting an exciting NHL All Star game might be one way to help do that.

BTW -- Columbus' sister city to the West --- Indianapolis - has been working to attract major sporting events for decades - and has recently received huge amounts of national and international attention for very successfully hosting the most recent Super Bowl. Having tens of thousands of wealthy, influential business leaders from New York and Boston in the city for the past week undoubtedly will lead to some future important new developments for the city. Numerous major convention organizers were brought into town to see what the city is like - and how well it can handle major events of all types. I have no doubt that at least several of these 15,000 - 30,000 person conventions will make positive decisions to hold their events in Indy after seeing how well things went with Super Bowl XLVI.

I think you're being very narrow-minded to think that hosting an NHL All Star game is not an important, development-related event for the city of Columbus.

LOL I'm all for Columbus hosting events. But this is strictly a development thread. AGAIN, if you or he can somehow point to a project that has OR will happen as a result of it, then fine. Be my guest. What annoys me is the fact that he like to post these off topic comment which aren't related to a single project. Like for example, when he post about OSU getting a new head coach. That may be important to football fans, but last I checked, it didn't result in any new developments in or around the University District. I don't want to see this thread hijacked or turned into the "Columbus Sports Thread". And you're right, I AM the one who maintains this thread, and I would greatly apperciate it if we could stay on topic. I don't go into the Toldeo thread to post off topic comments, so I'd apperciate the same.

Chadoh25 · February 9th, 2012, 03:43 AM

New property taxes staying to fix Weinland Park
Infrastructure in neighborhood will get benefits

By Doug Caruso
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday February 7, 2012

Columbus will set aside new property taxes on developments in the Weinland Park neighborhood to pay for streets and other public improvements there.

The Columbus City Council approved two tax-increment-financing districts last night in an agreement with Wagenbrenner Development, the company that is redeveloping the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site with homes and condominiums.

In the districts, taxes on the increased value of the property will go into a special fund. That fund will reimburse Wagenbrenner for upgrades it makes to public streets, curbs, street lights and other infrastructure.

Councilman Zach M. Klein, who leads the council’s development committee, praised the Weinland Park project. “It’s been a very successful project in the community,” he said.

The city will reimburse Columbus Public Schools for the schools’ share of the property taxes set aside in the districts, City Council President Andrew J. Ginther said after the meeting.

“The policy of the city of Columbus is to make the schools whole,” said Ginther, a former school board member.

Other agencies supported by property taxes, such as Children Services and the zoo, will not be reimbursed.

Wagenbrenner has been before the council regularly recently for its developments in Weinland Park and the Harrison West neighborhood just south of Ohio State University.

Last month, the council approved zoning changes necessary for the company to build 108 apartments in Harrison West. The council also has supported the company’s requests for millions in state grants to clean up the former industrial sites.

In another matter last night, the council approved refinancing up to $253.5 million in city debt.

“With the interest rate levels we have today, I am absolutely convinced we can save millions of dollars,” said city Auditor Hugh J. Dorrian.

dcaruso@dispatch.com

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...-district.html

araman0 · February 9th, 2012, 05:32 AM

Looks like some good infill for Columbus. Can you imagine what this picture would look like if they bury the power lines and get a set of pole mast arm mounted traffic signals? Maybe add some more decorative streetlights to the mix?

Chadoh25 · February 9th, 2012, 02:51 PM

Yeah, I wish they would do that too. I know they were thinking about doing that on 3rd Street in German Village, or at the very least, removing old lines that aren't working anymore. Maybe once the area improves alittle more they might do that.

Chadoh25 · February 21st, 2012, 05:28 AM

Weinland Park. Feb 19, 2012.

Chadoh25 · February 25th, 2012, 05:57 PM

Edwards Cos. planning 260 apartments along Long Street

Business First by Brian R. Ball, Staff reporter
February 24, 2012

Edwards Cos. plans to step up the pace of its housing development in downtown Columbus by adding 260 rental apartments along East Long Street over the next two years.

The developer of the 7-acre Neighborhood Launch condominium project along East Gay Street hasn’t given up on the for-sale market, either, with plans for a five-story condo building nearby.

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...s-on-long.html

Chadoh25 · March 6th, 2012, 07:17 PM

New Hilton hotel to become gallery for central Ohio talent

By Jeffrey Sheban
The Columbus Dispatch Monday February 27, 2012

About 160 paintings, sculptures, photographs and other works — representing a veritable who’s who of central Ohio artists living and deceased — are expected to become a big draw at a new Downtown hotel.

Works are being purchased from artists and galleries for the $140 million Hilton Columbus Downtown, opening in the fall on N. High Street in the Short North arts and entertainment district.

And, in a first for the Hilton chain domestically, all of the 532 guest rooms will feature artwork placed on the ceiling directly above the beds.

“People’s eyes light up when you talk about what’s going to be unique about the property,” said Julia Hansen, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...l-lodging.html

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January 26th, 2012, 07:58 PM	#281
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Housing proposed on city-owned Hilltop site Units planned for low-income and senior tenants By Mark Ferenchik The Columbus Dispatch Saturday January 21, 2012 6:15 AM A Westerville developer wants to buy a long-vacant city-owned property on the Hilltop to build a housing complex for senior citizens as well as single-family homes. The Woda Group LLC plans to ask the city to rezone the 22.5 acres off Wheatland Avenue just north of W. Broad Street. The company wants to build the project in three phases, said Greg Large, the zoning chairman for the Greater Hilltop Area Commission. The first phase would be 60 rental units in an L-shaped building toward the back of the property, with construction beginning in 2013, Large said. Forty-two units for senior citizens would be built after that. Plans also call for 33 homes, Large said. Those could be sold or rented, said Tom Simons, a senior vice president of the Woda Group. The company has an option to buy about 6 acres for the first phase and would develop the $10 m illion project along with the nonprofit group Homes on the Hill, Simons said. A resident of the first phase could not have income of more than $28,381 a year. That would qualify the project for low-income-housing tax credits and federal money, said Rita Parise, the city’s housing administrator. Geoff Phillips, who sits on the zoning committee and lives in the Highland West neighborhood near the site, wonders whether people will be able to afford the single-family homes. “Why are we adding more when we have so many vacant structures on the Hilltop?” Phillips said. “ What I want for the area is mixed-income” housing. Developers met with the area commission’s zoning committee on Thursday and plan to return on Feb. 2 to address questions about traffic and the site’s cleanup, Large said. Columbus has long sought to redevelop the property — behind the Columbus West Family Health and Wellness Center — as an anchor for the neighborhood, which is struggling with blight and a decaying commercial strip along W. Broad. The city spent $1.7 million to buy and clean up the land, which was the site of part of the Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital until it was razed in 1988. Crews removed contaminated soil, asbestos and other debris. Other attempts to redevelop the site have failed. The city and Dominion Homes announced a plan in December 2003 to put 106 homes there. But the builder backed out because of the falling housing market and the cost to clean up the property. Three doctors who expressed interest in building medical offices there in 2010 also changed their minds. mferenchik@dispatch.com http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...ltop-site.html

February 8th, 2012, 02:26 AM	#283
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Arena District updates. Feb 5th, 2012 New Nationwide building. Corner of Front Street and Nationwide Blvd.

February 8th, 2012, 02:33 AM	#284
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Arena District updates. Feb 5th, 2012 New Hilton hotel. North High Street.

February 8th, 2012, 02:54 AM	#285
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Arena District updates. Feb 5th, 2012 New FBI building site. Located between Spring Street & Nationwide Blvd and Fletcher and Hanover Streets

February 8th, 2012, 03:01 AM	#286
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Arena District updates. Feb 5th, 2012 Renovated structure, purpose unknown (atleast to me). Located between Spring Street & Nationwide Blvd and Hanover and Cozzins Streets

February 8th, 2012, 03:10 AM	#288
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Leafy Dale Adds New Apartments to Victorian Village By: Walker, Columbus Underground Published on January 12, 2012 The Wood Companies are already busy with construction on High Street with their apartment building development over top of Northstar Cafe, but that’s not stopping them from already moving on to their next big project: The Leafy Dale. Constructed in 1895 as a hotel, the Leafy Dale building stands tall at 789 Dennison Avenue, a half-block northwest of Goodale Park. “The building has been vacant for about five years,” says Mark Wood, President of The Wood Companies. “A couple of other developers tried to redevelop it into condos a few years ago and ran out of money before they were able to finish it.” The Wood Companies stepped in recently to buy the Leafy Dale, and is currently working on construction documents to move forward with building out 26 apartment units for rent. http://www.columbusunderground.com/l...torian-village

February 8th, 2012, 03:14 AM	#289
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	County delays casino-area zoning plan By Lucas Sullivan, The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday, February 1, 2012 The Franklin County commissioners have scrapped a zoning plan for the area around the new Hollywood Casino Columbus because businesses owners voiced their disapproval. The commissioners voted yesterday to postpone action for a year to give their economic-development team more time to collaborate with property owners near the Westland Mall. The development team had asked the commissioners to approve the zoning plan in December, but businesses expressed frustrations over how the county’s proposal would jell with zoning in the city of Columbus. Some land near the $400 million casino is in Columbus, and some is in unincorporated areas of Franklin County. Columbus passed its zoning overlay — the rules and construction guidelines for development — almost a year ago. Those rules specified a neighborhood business district that would be more like N. High Street in Clintonville than the Morse Road area near Northland. Some business owners told county commissioners that the city’s zoning will encourage business growth because it provides specific rules and regulations on subjects such as building setbacks. James Schimmer, the county’s economic-development director, said yesterday that the proposed county zoning is not much different, but he wants more buy-in from property owners before proceeding. “We still have the market study that we plan to follow, but this is a large area with multiple jurisdictions and different types of owners, so we want to make sure we have what is best for the area,” Schimmer said. “We want to have an agreed-upon plan from everyone because we are talking about development that will happen as long as 20 years down the road.” A recent market analysis by a Maryland-based consulting firm suggested an open-air shopping plaza at the Westland Mall site that could attract a big-box anchor such as Bass Pro Shop and lead to 2,650 spinoff jobs near the casino. The consultant said the Penn National Gaming casino also would support hotels and restaurants. The casino, being built at the site of the former Delphi auto-parts plant, is expected to create 2,000 jobs and is supposed to open late this year. Columbus annexed the site from Franklin Township. “Everyone wants to make this a vibrant area once again,” said auto-dealer Chris Haydocy. “It’s incumbent upon everyone that is invested out here that there is a higher standard. I think it’s a good idea to take a step back to make sure we get buy-in from everyone.” Haydocy, who leads the Western Vision group that is trying to revitalize the area near the casino, said business owners want a uniform zoning code that addresses proper landscaping, building materials, signage and building regulations. He said everyone wants sidewalks. “There’s a 1.2-mile section from I-270 down to Wilson Road that doesn’t have sidewalks and absolutely needs it,” he said. “Sidewalks are off the table of discussion. We have to have them in the area.” Schimmer said he will spend the year devising a plan with business leaders’ input, and he will present it to commissioners in January 2013. lsullivan@dispatch.com http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...ning-plan.html

February 8th, 2012, 04:27 PM	#292
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Old Town East updates. Feb 1th, 2012 The Charles. New constrution. Long Street.

February 8th, 2012, 10:55 PM	#293
GarfieldPark Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2,649 Likes (Received): 23	Mudhen419: "Blue jackets to host 2013 NHL allstar game!!" Chadoh25: "Okay ENOUGH already. Stop with the bullshit posts. If you can SOMEHOW connect the Blue Jackets hosting the 2013 NHL Allstars game with a DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (the new FBI building, Columbia Gas, or Nationwide building), then fine. Please have at it! But you posting random sports BS is getting old. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT a sports thread. Just like with the OSU post, this one does not belong here, so stop it otherwise I'm sure a mod will do it for you!" REALLY?! Considering you (Chadoh25) are about the only person posting on this Columbus development thread - I'd think you'd be thrilled that someone else is finding a few different things and posting them here as well. In my opinion -- "Development" relates to anything that is helping to grow a city. Major sports events that bring people in from all across the country (and from Canada in the case of the NHL) are very important for helping to fill hotels, restaurants and bars. With more of these types of events and conventions, etc. - the demand continues to increase for new restaurants, hotels and other visitor oriented venues. Columbus has developed an entire area of its downtown around the Nationwide Sports arena. The restaurants and hotels around there do well when more events occur there. More restaurants, bars and businesses make the area more attractive for additional residents. This means more apartments and condos will be built. Having more big events like the NHL All Star game brings more attention to the city. If the city and its arena look good and exciting on national television -- it could help attract people to visit and maybe even consider the city as a location for a potential business expansion. Columbus could probably use some more national attention -- and hosting an exciting NHL All Star game might be one way to help do that. BTW -- Columbus' sister city to the West --- Indianapolis - has been working to attract major sporting events for decades - and has recently received huge amounts of national and international attention for very successfully hosting the most recent Super Bowl. Having tens of thousands of wealthy, influential business leaders from New York and Boston in the city for the past week undoubtedly will lead to some future important new developments for the city. Numerous major convention organizers were brought into town to see what the city is like - and how well it can handle major events of all types. I have no doubt that at least several of these 15,000 - 30,000 person conventions will make positive decisions to hold their events in Indy after seeing how well things went with Super Bowl XLVI. I think you're being very narrow-minded to think that hosting an NHL All Star game is not an important, development-related event for the city of Columbus.

February 9th, 2012, 03:43 AM	#295
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	New property taxes staying to fix Weinland Park Infrastructure in neighborhood will get benefits By Doug Caruso The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday February 7, 2012 Columbus will set aside new property taxes on developments in the Weinland Park neighborhood to pay for streets and other public improvements there. The Columbus City Council approved two tax-increment-financing districts last night in an agreement with Wagenbrenner Development, the company that is redeveloping the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site with homes and condominiums. In the districts, taxes on the increased value of the property will go into a special fund. That fund will reimburse Wagenbrenner for upgrades it makes to public streets, curbs, street lights and other infrastructure. Councilman Zach M. Klein, who leads the council’s development committee, praised the Weinland Park project. “It’s been a very successful project in the community,” he said. The city will reimburse Columbus Public Schools for the schools’ share of the property taxes set aside in the districts, City Council President Andrew J. Ginther said after the meeting. “The policy of the city of Columbus is to make the schools whole,” said Ginther, a former school board member. Other agencies supported by property taxes, such as Children Services and the zoo, will not be reimbursed. Wagenbrenner has been before the council regularly recently for its developments in Weinland Park and the Harrison West neighborhood just south of Ohio State University. Last month, the council approved zoning changes necessary for the company to build 108 apartments in Harrison West. The council also has supported the company’s requests for millions in state grants to clean up the former industrial sites. In another matter last night, the council approved refinancing up to $253.5 million in city debt. “With the interest rate levels we have today, I am absolutely convinced we can save millions of dollars,” said city Auditor Hugh J. Dorrian. dcaruso@dispatch.com http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...-district.html

February 9th, 2012, 02:51 PM	#297
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Yeah, I wish they would do that too. I know they were thinking about doing that on 3rd Street in German Village, or at the very least, removing old lines that aren't working anymore. Maybe once the area improves alittle more they might do that.

February 21st, 2012, 05:28 AM	#298
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Weinland Park. Feb 19, 2012.

February 25th, 2012, 05:57 PM	#299
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	Edwards Cos. planning 260 apartments along Long Street Business First by Brian R. Ball, Staff reporter February 24, 2012 Edwards Cos. plans to step up the pace of its housing development in downtown Columbus by adding 260 rental apartments along East Long Street over the next two years. The developer of the 7-acre Neighborhood Launch condominium project along East Gay Street hasn’t given up on the for-sale market, either, with plans for a five-story condo building nearby. http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...s-on-long.html

March 6th, 2012, 07:17 PM	#300
Chadoh25 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 7,580 Likes (Received): 282	New Hilton hotel to become gallery for central Ohio talent By Jeffrey Sheban The Columbus Dispatch Monday February 27, 2012 About 160 paintings, sculptures, photographs and other works — representing a veritable who’s who of central Ohio artists living and deceased — are expected to become a big draw at a new Downtown hotel. Works are being purchased from artists and galleries for the $140 million Hilton Columbus Downtown, opening in the fall on N. High Street in the Short North arts and entertainment district. And, in a first for the Hilton chain domestically, all of the 532 guest rooms will feature artwork placed on the ceiling directly above the beds. “People’s eyes light up when you talk about what’s going to be unique about the property,” said Julia Hansen, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...l-lodging.html