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The Weinland Park Neighborhood Plan (PDF) was adopted by Columbus City Council in July of 2006, and the area has seen some slow and steady progress since then. Changes to the neighborhood may start coming much more quickly according to a Dispatch article today (“$15 million pledged to kick-start Weinland Park area“) that provides information about the redevelopment efforts of the newly founded “Weinland Park Collaborative”.
The group plans to build new homes and renovate old homes in the Weinland Park neighborhood over the next few years. Additionally, existing homeowners will be able to apply for home improvement grants through MORPC. The Wagenbrenner Development Company’s “Columbus Coated Fabrics” project is also mentioned as a part of the new push for the area, which has long been one of the bigger pieces in revamping the area.
More information about the Weinland Park plan can be found online at CampusPartners.OSU.edu.
and maybe by the time this whole project is done, Kroger will start renovating!
Incredible.
I’ve always thought about moving to WP, but this pretty much seals the deal.
The significance of this plan is that it address underlying issues instead of trying to do superficial improvements.
Chase also has a very vested interest in this area and is bent on revitalizing it. Our organization has special funding from Chase to work specifically in WP to help families facing housing crises to stay in WP and help it thrive. We are up for renewal for this section of our program and are pretty sure they are going to support us again.
As a professional in the real estate field, I urge those capable of homeownership with renovation skills to start looking at homes throughout this immediate area within the next 5 years. All of the positive news in the past 5 years or so tells me that this neighborhood presents good investment opportunities. It is clearly on the short list of the next “up-and-coming” neighborhoods. The city and private investors have Weinland Park set in their sites. Go ahead and jump on the bandwagon. Just make sure you can handle a bumpy ride.
Those interested in details should probably take a look at the graphic on the Dispatch site for current info about the real-estate-related revitalization projects, or get in touch with Campus Partners directly. The map pictured above is from the WP Neighborhood Plan, which had some flaws (including not realizing that the New Indianola national register district in WP would prevent the apartments on 11th from being torn down) and has already been somewhat superseded by subsequent events.
While this is GREAT NEWS…
With all of the planned development/redevelopment/renovations, there WILL be displacement with this revitalization effort – even with the job training and education. There has never been a successful revitalization effort without displacement. I only hope that the Collaborative goes the extra mile to handle it the right way, like this example from Baltimore, where “relocation counselors” were hired to assist EACH AND EVERY family that was displaced by condemnation or by price-out: http://citiwire.net/post/2105/
“A key element of the new approach: ‘responsible relocation,’ so that when residents are obliged to move out, they receive help finding quality replacement housing, legal and social services, job assistance, and ‘the right to return’ to their revitalized community through purchase or rental of new or rehabbed affordable housing.”
“There’s never before been an honest relocation effort where there was actual one-on-one dealings with the people being displaced. This sounds like a real breaking of the mold.â€Â
Blighted buildings to be redeveloped in Weinland Park
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 02:26 PM
BY BARBARA CARMEN
The Columbus Dispatch
Two blighted, vacant apartment buildings will be torn down to make way for new homes as part of a project to rejuvenate Weinland Park.
“These buildings have been a source of criminal activity in the neighborhood,” Franklin County Treasurer Ed Leonard told commissioners.
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Wagenbrenner lands $3M in Clean Ohio money for Auld/3M site in Weinland Park
Business First – by Brian Ball
Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 5:10
A 99-year-old industrial site at East Fifth Avenue and North Fourth Street has landed $3 million in state cash for environmental cleanup that will allow Columbus developer Mark Wagenbrenner to expand his redevelopment efforts in the Weinland Park neighborhood.
The Ohio Department of Development approved the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund grant to pay for the demolition and environmental scrubbing of the former D.L. Auld Co. site at 1186-1190 and 1206 N. Fourth St.
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