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the cost of the neighborhood program is chump change compared to recent reconstruction and renovation of the hospital itself, which had a total price tag of $786 million.
no doubt
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Nationwide Children's Hospital - News & Discussion
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heresthecasey
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I find it very hard to believe that Children's Hospital gives a damn about judiciously spending its money or being a good neighbor to the south side.
Children's Hospital plans to build a new Ronald McDonald House building for families of kids staying at the hospital.
The organization already has $3.5 million in donations committed for the $5 million project, which will be located adjacent to Children's. It replaces a building across the street, and will feature amenities such as bathrooms in every room and elevators for new mothers.
The house was designed by Meacham & Apel Architects Inc. and Ronald McDonald House hopes to break ground in the fall of 2003.Children’s stirred neighborhood outcry in early 2007 when it announced the Ronald McDonald House that opened in 2005 on hospital grounds would be demolished only two years later to make way for an expansion.
Razing such a new structure was “unfortunate,” said Paul Thompson, who became executive director in October.Neighbors are upset that Children’s Hospital is buildig a seven-story parking garage right in front of their homes.
Council of South Side Organizations (CSSO) vice president Mike Elicson is not pleased with the plans unveiled Nov. 10 by Children's Hospital for a new parking garage at the corner of Livingston and Parsons avenues. "There's is no way you are ever going to make a seven-story parking garage fit in at the corner," Elicson said.A new parking structure for Children's Hospital is the object of some suggestions and recommendations from the Council of South Side Organizations. Mike Wiles, president of the CSSO, said suggestions from members of his group and from community residents were brought before Children's Hospital officials during a meeting several weeks ago in an effort to help make the new structure more acceptable to the neighborhood.
Their suggestions include locating modest retail shops on the first and second floors, he said. "What we hope would happen is to see some retail shops on the first or second floor facing Parsons Avenue, so it would blend into the neighborhood better instead of being a regular parking structure," Wiles said.Children's Hospital officials got an earful last night, as they presented their plans to knock down the 2-year-old Ronald McDonald House and construct a replacement nearby, which would mean knocking down several old homes in the process.
Children's Hospital got a heap of scorn last night from Columbus City Council members who said the hospital is shutting neighbors out of a $740 million expansion that will reshape everything around them.
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chaptal
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columbusmike
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Just drove by the corner of Livingston and Grant. Looks like Nationwide staff and a bunch of other people are out there right now scouting out the big parking lots with measuring tape while pointing downtown and back towards Nationwide......
Posted 9 months ago # -
Patch
Schumacher Place
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columbusmike said:
Just drove by the corner of Livingston and Grant. Looks like Nationwide staff and a bunch of other people are out there right now scouting out the big parking lots with measuring tape while pointing downtown and back towards Nationwide......Meaning Nationwide Childrens staff, or Nationwide Realty company?
Posted 9 months ago # -
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City To Re-Brick Crumbling Street That Was Just Completed Last Year
Friday October 19, 2012 1:47 PMCOLUMBUS, Ohio - Watchdog 10 uncovered that the City of Columbus just ripped up a $600,000 street project that it finished last year. Now, city officials plan to re-brick the road, which is at the gateway to the south side along Parsons and Livingston avenues near Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The city is ripping up 42,000 square feet of brand new brings that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars because they are crumbling.
READ MORE: http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/10/19/watchdog-10-columbus-city-street-bricks.htmlPosted 8 months ago # -
columbusmike
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Strange. I've never heard of bricks cracking like this in a street application. Something seems fishy with the brick supplier.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Analogue Kid
Olentangy West
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columbusmike said:
Strange. I've never heard of bricks cracking like this in a street application. Something seems fishy with the brick supplier.It's true, I am always amazed driving down 3rd Ave in Harrison West when I remember the street is 100 years old. This sounds like bad materials and should be warrantied by the manufacturer.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Coremodels
Really close to Explorer's Club.
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I'm so supportive of what they're doing in that area, and the Parsons/Livingston intersection looks like a million bucks...but...this is just absurd. Bricks don't crumble over a period of weeks unless the materials or workmanship are sub par, and this shouldn't be a tax payer burden.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Pro Se
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columbusmike said:
Just drove by the corner of Livingston and Grant. Looks like Nationwide staff and a bunch of other people are out there right now scouting out the big parking lots with measuring tape while pointing downtown and back towards Nationwide......The Dispatch reports tonight that the Columbus Board of Education sold the Africentric fields between Grant and Parsons to Nationwide Children's for $1.7 million an acre. Curious what they have in store for this land, especially considering the inherent uncertainties that come with the postponed 70/71 expansion project.
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