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Several blocks which are mostly surface parking lots in the rectangle of 4th, Long, 6th, and Gay Streets have been acquired by Edwards Co., one of the Founding Fathers of the Brewery District redevelopment back in the 80′s. Two good things to note about this:
(1) This is a major step eastward. Almost nothing has gone in as far east as 6th thus far, and they’ve mostly been small projects like the Washington Rich Townhomes. This is three full-size blocks.
(2) This will be eliminating a heck of a lot of ugly surface parking lots in one fell swoop.
A Columbus developer has begun assembling the land to build a low-rise residential community Downtown, a city official confirmed yesterday.
The official said Jeff Edwards has had talks with the city about turning an area between Gay and Long streets into a residential development. The area, which is bordered on the west by 4 th Street and on the east by 6 th Street, is mostly surface parking lots.
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Awesome. I’ve been waiting for this type of news for awhile now. Glad to hear something is finally going to be done with all of those ugly lots. Hopefully some of the residential development over there will be more affordable since it’s off high and it’s closer to CSCC, CCAD, and Franklin. :D
Too bad it will only be “low-rise” buildings instead of at least “mid-rise” buildings.
What exactly is the boundary between low-rise and mid-rise, anyway?
I’m all for downtown residential, but who honestly wants to live right next to the Faith Mission? Units better be relatively inexpensive.
If urban living makes you uncomfortable, just stay in you’re track home in Westerville; you kill me; I want all the character of downtown living, but only selective kinds of character…Downtown living realitys are homeless, low income, the city dwellers…
Hey, how about this idea! Lets move the shelter to you’re neighborhood; then no one would have to live near them and the developer could charge whatever rent he deems!
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Hey, how about this idea! Lets move the shelter to you’re neighborhood; then no one would have to live near them and the developer could charge whatever rent he deems!
If you moved the shelter to my neighborhood, someone (ie me and surrounding people living in 400K homes) would be living “near” them. So your post makes absolutely no sense. I bet you feel like a big man b/c your talk trash on an internet messageboard.
BTW we’ll you be looking to live by the Faith Mission? Probably not. If you do, you might as well throw $ down the toilet.
That is exactly what I was thinking.
Google to the rescue again.
If you Google “define:mid-rise” the definition that comes up is 7-25 stories. In other words, anything below 7 stories is low-rise; Columbus by this argument has maybe *two* high-rises in the whole city (Miranova and Waterford, both maybes).
There’s a big difference between 2 and 6, however. Three blocks of six-story residential is a pretty solid cluster. Three blocks of two-story stuff … well, there are many three-story apartment complexes in the suburbs.
I guess we’ll have to wait for a residential unit estimate if the height isn’t mentioned. A two or three story building would be a waste, especially in that location.
[quote="BG"][i]Hey, how about this idea! Lets move the shelter to you’re neighborhood; then no one would have to live near them and the developer could charge whatever rent he deems! [/i]
If you moved the shelter to my neighborhood, someone (ie me and surrounding people living in 400K homes) would be living “near” them. So your post makes absolutely no sense. I bet you feel like a big man b/c your talk trash on an internet messageboard.
BTW we’ll you be looking to live by the Faith Mission? Probably not. If you do, you might as well throw $ down the toilet.
Ok, BG, can you please let me know where the 400K homes are near this area? You, being the big man you are, must live in German Village across from Lindey’s…Is that you’re big brick home with the gas lantern? Can I come for a drink and discuss you’re development experience? Maybe you’re famlies?
Just in case you’re curious, the Edwards DO know what they are doing, and so do I…What do you think people though of Sandy Wood buying in the Short North 30 years ago? Pretty silly purchases, right “Big Guy”?
Oh, enlighten us all…
Just answer this:
Would you like to live next to the Faith Mission when housing becomes available?
Wow…you guys derailed this conversation quickly.
More solid news for Downtown as we continue to develop those surface lots! Once we take away those, RiverSouth, and more in the Arena District (Huntington Park), the city is gonna look much better. The need for streetcars and/or light rail will increase too!
Oof. I go out of town for the weekend and you crazy kids have to go and start slap fights. :roll:
Anyway, yeah, I’d prefer to see more high-rise projects announced (like the new high-rise near North Bank park, but less expensive! :D) but low-rise isn’t all bad. The Sixty-Spring building doesn’t look too bad only being a few stories, so if we could imagine something like that spread over a few blocks with some ground-floor retail mixed in, I think it would be a GIANT improvement over the dumb flat lots that are over there right now.
Personally, I wouldn’t mind as much as some people. The people there are trying to get help. It’s the people begging for change around the bus station or City Center that piss me off. You’re supposed to do like the signs tell you to do and tell those people where they can find help at places like Faith Mission or the Salvation Army center down on Front St. and then donate there. So I see no problem with people hanging around those places. It beats the alternative. :D
Yes, I would live near the Faith Mission and I currently live in a neighborhood, Victorian Village, where many organizations are located to help the less fortunate.
The point is this; people, such as yourself, who from you’re comments obviously have ZERO development background, make broad uneducated statements without seeing the broader picture; development change is coming and thank god they don’t come to you for advise on how to do so.
If you Google “define:mid-rise” the definition that comes up is 7-25 stories. In other words, anything below 7 stories is low-rise; Columbus by this argument has maybe *two* high-rises in the whole city (Miranova and Waterford, both maybes).
There’s a big difference between 2 and 6, however. Three blocks of six-story residential is a pretty solid cluster. Three blocks of two-story stuff … well, there are many three-story apartment complexes in the suburbs.
I was thinking low-rise meant no more than 2-3 stories, so a couple of blocks of 6-7 story buildings wouldn’t be bad at all.
BG – Where does your fear of homeless people come from? Just tell them that you don’t have any change. It’s pretty easy. Also, as far as big cities go, Columbus barely has any homeless people downtown.
Back on the thread. I think you could picture “low rise” as the South Campus Gateway or The Heights (in Grandview). Something in the 4 story range is probably the best guess.
This is good news. It would be nice to see some midrises there, but at least low rise structures are better than the existing surface lots. Hopefully they won’t have units all above $300k like everyone else downtown.
Although it’s almost filled up now, Sixty Spring (right down the street from this new big project) has most (if not all) units for less than $300k.
I wonder what the parking situation will be at the new Edwards condos. If they’re low rise, then maybe they will have some sort of garage on the ground floor of each unit.
What is the parking situation at Sixty Spring?