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Spring is in the air, and so are construction cranes. Many of the ongoing developments located in and around Downtown are moving forward quickly with construction now that the weather has warmed up again. Below are photos taken around town today at various construction sites including The Franklin County Courthouse, Grandview Yard, Children’s Hospital, City Center / Columbus Commons, The Annex at RiverSouth, Neighborhood Launch, The Jackson, The Commons at Buckingham, The Scioto Mile, Flats on Vine, The Whitney Condos and The Main Street Bridge.
More information can be found about each of these developments below:
The Jackson is such an awesome building, seriously.
Agreed Kyle. Love everything about it… design, amenities, location… all around awesome project.
Agreed! We’re in the process of setting up a “CU Condo Meetup” there sometime in the next month or so for anyone interested in checking out the views from the inside. ;)
It took me a second to figure out where this was. I really need to see it in person to comprehend how removing such a monolith has affected the landscape.
Children’s Hospital addition is looking great!
What you may or may not know is that the condominiums at Annex at Riverside South were built in response to the call for affordable housing downtown and were given a ten-year tax abatement. They have converted them to apartments apparently because of the lack of sales. I don’t know whether the Jackson faces a similar fate, as they are much more expensive in a somewhat sketchy section of high street.
@ja As I understood it they were going half apartments and half condos from the get-go , I think that is something the developer often does in their suburban developments (lifestyle communities). I haven’t heard much good about the sales but nothing eluding to something that drastic. The surrounding infrastructure is in rough shape right now given the street work, the two parks going in on either side, and the courthouse work so that could be thwarting sales right now too.
Yeah, the LC’s website stopped listing them as condos a few months ago and shows them as “Apartments East” and “Apartments West”. It’s probably a good short-term move as the rental market Downtown is in much better shape than the condo market, and they can always be converted from apartments to condos in the future when the housing market improves, a la Victorian Gate.
venturing a little further from downtown, the 4 story building on Grandview Ave replacing the Kingswood builing that burned down last January is finally showing progress. The elevator shaft is going up as well a the steel frame. A crane has shown up on the sight as well.
Also, in Clintonville the Wahalla Terraces are nearing completion.
I was actually in the market and really interested in the LC Annex condo’s. I could not afford any other condo’s downtown and these I were going to be built as affordable housing. Only when it came time to actually figure out the costs along with their condo fee I found that they were really impossible for me. Maybe I’m just not used to to condo fees but a 250 dollar fee on a 900 dollar a month mortgage was just too much and I didn’t find them to be a good investment.
It’s a bit hard to believe that the LC Annex condo fee would be $250 a month since there are absolutely no amenities, such as front desk concierge, swimming pools, landscaping, etc. No wonder they weren’t selling.
Yeah, $250/mo sounds a bit steep just for exterior maintenance. The only shared spaces I can think of are the grassy courtyard-type areas.
The move to apartments for a lot of these projects is due to the financing available, not so much on what the developer wants. The Jackson secured financing before the meltdown started so I think they’ll be fine.
the LC project also got started before/during the housing meltdown which continues and will continue to force prices downward
they started the project assuming price support which no longer exists
the housing bubble has a long long way to deflate yet too and the FED will be pulling support in 9 days supposedly after spending massive money along with the GSE’s trying in vain to prop up housing prices which will help force prices even lower
for new projects like LC it doesn’t bode well at all
Parsons and Livingston is getting a nice face lift with the brand new CVS and the hospital. I hope the strip mall looks nice when they are done with it.
By “strip mall” I assume you’re referring to the site where Kroger & CVS and the other stores used to be located? If so, it’s being replaced with a new six-story medical office building, as seen in this rendering:
the kfc and that new parking garage at that intersection drive me crazy. i guess they couldnt buy the kfc for whatever reason so they wrapped the garage around it on both sides. and the scale is completely out of whack, this little kfc dwarfed under this hulking mass of a giant concrete parking garage.
and the brand new ronald mc donald house they built, then tore down a year later, and the new new replacement they built across the street. idk how many millions were wasted on that. . .
otherwise its all coming along great ;)