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Phase Two of Lennox Flats Wrapping Up This Summer

Phase Two of Lennox Flats Wrapping Up This Summer

0 Brent Warren / April 19, 2013 8:00 am

Lennox Flats is on schedule to complete its second phase by July of this year. The apartment complex, which sits just south of Kinnear Road across the railroad tracks from Lennox Town Center, features compact units ranging from 450 to… [Read More]

Major Infrastructure Upgrade, More Houses Planned for American Addition

Major Infrastructure Upgrade, More Houses Planned for American Addition

0 Brent Warren / April 14, 2013 9:15 am

Efforts to revitalize and repopulate American Addition received a major shot in the arm earlier this month when funding for a long-planned infrastructure upgrade was approved by the Columbus City Council. Abigail Mack, home ownership directer for Homeport, says they… [Read More]

Five-Story Mixed-Use Building Proposed for Spring Street Downtown

Five-Story Mixed-Use Building Proposed for Spring Street Downtown

15 Brent Warren / April 13, 2013 7:30 am

Local developer Berardi and Partners has proposed a five-story mixed-use building for the corner of East Spring and Neilston Streets. The proposal, which was conditionally approved by the Downtown Commission at their April 2nd meeting, calls for a five-story building… [Read More]

228-Unit Apartment Complex Planned Near Tuttle Mall

228-Unit Apartment Complex Planned Near Tuttle Mall

0 Brent Warren / April 12, 2013 8:00 am

Upper Arlington-based Vision Development, which is currently constructing Chesapeake Park Apartments off of Northwest Boulevard, has also recently broken ground on a new 228-unit apartment complex near Tuttle Mall. The $23 million project, to be called The District Apartments, will offer… [Read More]

Long-term Revitalization the Goal for West Franklinton

Long-term Revitalization the Goal for West Franklinton

0 Brent Warren / April 8, 2013 8:00 am

With all of the recent activity in East Franklinton, including a neighborhood plan that calls for increased density and a wide range of uses for the area between the railroad tracks and 315, it can sometimes seem like West Franklinton… [Read More]

Study to Take Another Look at Third Street Options in German Village

Study to Take Another Look at Third Street Options in German Village

4 Brent Warren / April 7, 2013 8:00 am

The Columbus City Council has approved the use of Urban Infrastructure Recovery Funds to pay for a preliminary engineering study of South Third Street in German Village. The $500,000 study is the first concrete step in what has been a… [Read More]

MS Consultants Celebrates 50 Years

MS Consultants Celebrates 50 Years

0 Brent Warren / April 5, 2013 8:00 am

MS Consultants, an engineering, architecture and planning firm, is celebrating the opening 50 years ago of its first office in Youngstown (they followed that up with a Columbus branch ten years later and now have nine offices in five states)…. [Read More]

Reservations Being Accepted for Columbus Commons Apartments

Reservations Being Accepted for Columbus Commons Apartments

4 Brent Warren / April 2, 2013 11:50 am

Carter USA, the Atlanta developer behind the Highpoint on Columbus Commons, is now accepting reservations for apartments in the five-story project currently being constructed on South High Street downtown. Laura Swadel, vice president of investment at Carter, said they are… [Read More]

Construction Roundup: March 2013

Construction Roundup: March 2013

0 Walker / March 31, 2013 7:00 am

Construction sites continue to be spotted throughout Columbus as some development projects wrap up and others get started. This month we’ve captured photos from the progress at the 600 Goodale apartment community, the new Neighborhood Launch apartment building, the Grandview… [Read More]

Public Meetings Under Way for Southern Gateway Revitalization Effort

Public Meetings Under Way for Southern Gateway Revitalization Effort

0 Brent Warren / March 28, 2013 6:00 am

Southern Gateway, the public-private partnership first announced by the Mayor in the 2012 State of the City address and officially launched last summer, has started its engagement with the neighborhood. Four public meetings have been held so far, and another… [Read More]

Library Considering Multi-Story, Mixed Use Building for New Northside Branch

Library Considering Multi-Story, Mixed Use Building for New Northside Branch

6 Brent Warren / March 26, 2013 11:00 pm

The Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) is looking at putting a new, larger Northside branch into a mixed-use development on the same site. Hoping to take advantage of its location between the Short North and the OSU campus, the library has… [Read More]

270-Unit Apartment Building Planned for Polaris

270-Unit Apartment Building Planned for Polaris

20 Brent Warren / March 26, 2013 12:50 pm

Kaufman Development, which hopes to have its 600 Goodale project near Grandview completed by this summer, is set to break ground soon on another five-story apartment building, this one in the Polaris area. The project, to be called 801 Polaris,… [Read More]

Dublin Moves Ahead with Bridge Street Corridor Plans, Connecting Across River

Dublin Moves Ahead with Bridge Street Corridor Plans, Connecting Across River

2 Brent Warren / March 23, 2013 7:00 am

With last year’s Bridge Street Corridor Plan, Dublin laid out an ambitious blueprint for a dense, walkable district that would add approximately 8,000 new residential units to the area. City of Dublin Planner Rachel Ray was kind enough to share… [Read More]

Atlas Building Conversion to Apartments Set to Start

Atlas Building Conversion to Apartments Set to Start

13 Brent Warren / March 22, 2013 9:40 am

Plans for the Atlas Building at 8 East Long Street Downtown are starting to come together. Michael Schiff, Principal of the Schiff Capital Group, outlined the latest plans and gave some background on the project Wednesday night at a ULI… [Read More]

Seven-Story Apartment Building Proposed at Italian Village Park

Seven-Story Apartment Building Proposed at Italian Village Park

24 Brent Warren / March 21, 2013 11:20 am

The Wood Companies and Schiff Capital Group have proposed a seven-story apartment building at the corner of East Hubbard Avenue and Pearl Alley, adjacent to Italian Village Park. The concept was presented to the Italian Village Commission this week. Mark Wood,… [Read More]