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The writing has been on the wall for the Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe ever since they went into receivership back in March, but the future of the site may have been determined last night. City Council approved a 10-year tax break for a developer who is proposing to tear down the restaurant and build a six-story 134-room hotel in its place. The owners of the Hall of Fame have stated that they are looking for a new smaller space to relocate the restaurant to. Anyone have any ideas on where might be a good fit?
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What about the vacant area at the Gateway left by Skye Bar? (assuming it is closed, someone told me it was, but I haven’t been around there for awhile).
what about the Hotel that is right next to the cafe already?
Here’s to hoping I’ll never have to endure another crappy work-holiday party there!
There’s already a Hyatt being built in Grandview Yard AND a Varsity Inn next door. Whatever goes there should probably offer something unique that the other two cannot, possibly combined with a day spa or something posh like that.
Skye Bar is definitely closed, along with nearly everything else in that alley.
I think that area can easily sustain an additional hotel. On TripAdvisor, one of the most common questions people ask about Columbus is for hotels/motels close to OSU. There’s the Blackwell and then there’s that area around Olentangy RR and 315 south of N Broadway, the couple of places near the Fairgrounds, and beyond that it’s either downtown or out in the ‘burbs (161, Easton, etc).
I think there will be enough demand for this and for the GY Hyatt (and the existing Varsity Inn), between people who are going to something at OSU and those who want to be near downtown without paying for parking.
According to the Dispatch article, “The group wants to build a 134-room hotel at the site, which city development officials said will help make up for the loss of rooms and hotel-tax money from OSU’s conversion of the former Lane Avenue Holiday Inn into student housing.”
I could see this hotel being a Courtyard caliber at best. A full service hotel may not be the best fit for the area. Even the GY Hyatt is going to be a Hyatt Place, not a full Hyatt.
How about locating the Buckeye Hall of Fame to the Jack Nicklaus Museum. Then, locate a new Jack Nicklaus Museum at the OSU Golf Course were it belongs and can go hand-in-hand with the golf pro shop store.
They should move up the road to the vacant space left by Boulevard Gardens.
I worked at Buckeye when I was in high school about 10 years ago. I thought the place was going under back then. I can’t believe it has lasted this long. Tip: If your ever going to open up a place like this don’t buy the games. They still have the same games in there since I worked there.
I would hope the city would use a UCO to encourage walkable, urban development on Olentangy, but judging by recent developments that the city allowed to be built; if it isn’t already walkable/urban, they’re not going to try to change that anytime soon.
It should be put someplace you can walk to safely from campus/N high st. The gateway sounds like a good idea.
The Hall of Fame Cafe wouldn’t fit in the Gateway, I’m afraid, because it would be pitted against its little sister, in Eddie George’s Grill.
If/when they raze the building, Woody will roll over in his grave, he loved the Jai Lai
Hello progress – good bye Columbus history….what else is new in the city of Columbus? The Jai Lai was a great restaurant.
Why not plow over the Park of Roses to connect Upper Arlington to Clintonville…….
Yeah, but the Jai Lai is long gone, and it wasn’t coming back. Not sure how keeping the building around with yet-another-business would preserve any sort of history that the Jai Lai once provided.
Personally, I think it’s a pretty ugly building and won’t really mind it going away.
A hotel such as Hampton Inn or Holiday Inn Express, Springhill Suites, etc would make sense with its location near OSU.
As for relocation – there’s that big empty storefront in the Gateway where Sunflower Market was….for the love of Columbus, something’s gotta go in there!!!!!
i’m glad to see it go. Ugly building and crappy food. Maybe a similar themed restaurant with better food at the old Rosendales location? This would give out of towners a reason to visit the short north who might not have otherwise and further like osu with downtown and the short north.
what about using the entire space formerly home to rosendale’s 3 locations that closed and make it 1 space.