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According to this article in today’s Dispatch, the first phase of the Grandview Yard development will include a 126-room Hyatt hotel, an Urban Active Fitness Center, a Jason’s Deli, a three-story office building, and a parking garage.
The plan will be formally presented to the Grandview Planning Commission next Wednesday and more details will follow then.
Update (July 16, 2009) – Renderings below (click to enlarge)
Settle GW_Justice – I’ve been posting on here for 2 years about developement in Columbus. I’m a cheerleader for anything that I see making this a better city to live in. I’m tired of my friends leaving for other cities that are making progress. I may be an optimist, but I’d rather be that than someone who just tries to bring the world down with doom and gloom. I apologized before for being too harsh, so what’s the deal with the call out that I work for GY or something? I love the Ibiza idea too, check my posts on that before you take a personal shot at me.
BTW I was pumped about the webcam because I can check it at work. I loved Huntington’s and Northbank’s too so in the words of one of my favorite 80′s songs …. RELAX
Chill achieved, surber17. I guess I should have added an emoticon to that ;-) But you deserved a poke for the way you announced the webcam ;-)
And if you are a PR person undercover, well, they need jobs too, it’s a tough economy! ;-)
ha! I would love to be a PR person for Nationwide! Just sit online all day and talk about projects … that would be amazing. Plus I’d have some real inside info. to offer and maybe a say in where the project is heading.
For the webcam, it was for all the procrastinators out there like myself :)
City officials reflect on Grandview Yard negotiations
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 1:58 PM
By ALAN FROMAN
ThisWeek Staff Writer
It’s been more than four weeks since Grandview Heights City Council approved the development agreement and other legislation allowing the first phase of Nationwide Realty Investors’ Grandview Yard project to proceed.
It’s been nearly three years since NRI first announced its plans for the massive, mixed-use development.
“It’s still kind of sinking in,” Mayor Ray DeGraw said last week. “It’s taken a lot of work to get to this point, and this is really only the beginning.
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I would like to continue my bid for PR rep for Nationwide …… from the website, it looks like they broke ground for phase 1 and it looks like they’re working on the Urban Active Fitness place first, if I’m looking at it correctly.
Two photos taken earlier today to show some of the construction. The first one is from along Goodale looking NW at the project. The other photo is from the other side, sort of over behind Junctionview. Interesting perspective to show just how close this development really is to Downtown:
Commission OKs phase 1b of Grandview Yard project
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:49 PM
By ALAN FROMAN
ThisWeek Staff Writer
The Grandview Heights Planning Commission Oct. 21 approved Nationwide Realty Investors’ preliminary development plan for phase 1b of the Grandview Yard project.
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Any idea where the lot will be for 1b? Any renderings?
Grandview Yard cleanup gets state cash
Friday, November 20, 2009
Business First of Columbus
An 18-acre chunk of the former Big Bear Stores Co. complex in Grandview Heights has landed a $2 million state grant to help clean up the site and make way for the Grandview Yard mixed-use development.
Columbus developer Nationwide Realty Investors Ltd. plans to use the money to clean up the northern section of a 85- to 90-acre redevelopment of the city’s industrial district that stretches from West Third Avenue to Goodale Boulevard east of Northwest Boulevard.
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Grandview Yard financing approved
Monday, November 23, 2009 11:27 PM
BY DEAN NARCISO
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Grandview Heights City Council unanimously approved a three-party agreement tonight on financing for the Grandview Yard development.
City leaders have dissected drafts of the document for more than two months, trying to ensure that Grandview residents assume little risk yet are beneficiaries of a future tax windfall.
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Nice! I love checking the progress on this on Nationwide’s webcam. The office building and hotel are flying up!
Grandview Yard: Agreement paves way for improvements
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
By ALAN FROMAN
ThisWeek Staff Writer
On the heels of Grandview Heights City Council’s approval Nov. 23 of a cooperative agreement for the Grandview Yard project, the city’s Board of Control will meet this week to review and verify the costs associated with the first phase of public improvements for the project.
The board of control’s approval will pave the way for the first round of bonds, totaling a little more than $10-million, to be issued for the project.
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Not all residents are sold on project
Saturday, December 5, 2009
BY DEAN NARCISO
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Machinery and muscle are forging the eastern edge of Grandview Heights into what developers hope will be a shopping, office and entertainment hot spot, but some nearby residents don’t equate development with improvement.
“This is going to be a mini Easton (Town Center) or continuation of the Arena District,” said Anna Reed, a lifelong resident of 61 years. “It’s not going to be the Grandview we all grew up in.”
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I completely understand that some people feel like everything is fine as is but i find it comical that the residents interviewed for this article fell into the stereotype of cranky old people not wanting anything to ever change around them.
Surber, you find it comical that elderly people who have invested most of their life savings in the property they own near G.Y. are worried about the loss that might come to the value of their homes?
Did you also find it funny when old people who had invested in the stock market were horrified by the drop in the value of their stocks in the last couple of years?
GW, that analogy doesn’t make any sense. When the stock market drops you know you’re going to lose money. Living next to a development could go either way. For the last “x” amount of years they lived next to, essentially, a Brownfield. This debate actually reminds me of the exact same one we were having about the casino. My thoughts were that the condos close to the new casino would lose value when it was built …. multiple people on hear disagreed stating that they lived next to abandoned warehouses before the construction and anything going in that spot would be better than what was currently there (a point reiterated in the article). I’m not sure I’m totally on board with that argument, but I’m starting to lean that way (not to mention this development brings a lot more to the neighborhood than a casino would).
Also, and maybe I didn’t state this clearly enough, I found the article funny because nearly every person interviewed who had an issue with it was an elderly person who lived there their entire life. I didn’t see a 35 year old resident interviewed with the same concerns. I’m not saying they don’t exist, because I’m sure they do, but what I found comical was the article didn’t interview anyone from that age demographic.
As for investing their entire life savings in it, what about the 50 year old they interviewed who is excited about the changes … did she not also invest her life savings?
Surber, you spent four paragraphs deflecting the point of my comment.
Your 10:36 am comment could be shortened to “LOL Old people, amirite?”
Hopefully you will outgrow this attitude.
GW …. good lord will you stop taking things so personally. i found who they interviewed for the article funny. I dont hate or not care about old people just because i laughed about one article.
I understand you’re close to this project and have a lot of emotions about it … but not everything has to be so serious all the time. I wrote four paragraphs trying to show why i felt they were wrong to have these concerns after realizing that you couldn’t joke about it.
i like talking about this project with you because you’re knowledgable and bring up other interesting points, but it becomes an annoying debate when someone starts taking everything to heart.
Wow. You got called out on an ageist comment, and you use the “Stop being so serious” defense? The discussion we are having now is off topic, so I’ll drop it. If you feel that I’m being unfair to you, we can continue in PM.
But if you are going to continue with the attitude shown in your 10:36 am comment I will speak up about it. Those of us here in Grandview who could be adversely affected by G.Y. are not just cranky oldsters who hate all change.
Yeah, you got me … congrats.
Anyway do you really feel that living next to abandoned warehouses is better for home values than living close to Grandview Yard? And I esp. disagree with the comments about the height of GY because not more than 200 yards away are the Time Warner and Ohio State buildings that are around 5 to 7 stories themselves.