Merion Village, Schumacher working on development plan

By: Walker

9 Comments

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  Coremodels February 27, 2007 9:57 am

  I’d definitely dig the extension of the streetcar down to Thurman…since that’s basically my house!
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  Columbusite February 27, 2007 5:19 pm

  The city states that the streetcars will be modern and then they’re described as a “trolley” as if there only going to be one and it’ll be old-timey. In any case, it’s great that they want it to go further south. Better to build as much of the High St line as possible instead of doing several extensions which would cost more in the long run. It does, however, make the line very lopsided with a heavy emphasis on the south. I definitely agree with the strip-mall on Parsons. This is an urban area, not a suburb and I’m glad to see residents calling for mixed-use buildings on both High and Parsons.
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  Coremodels February 27, 2007 5:55 pm

  The pocket parks could be great too, Frank Fetch Park, although tiny, is absolutely gorgeous in G.V.
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  gramarye February 28, 2007 12:16 am

  Some of the large-scale ideas include mixing residential with commercial uses along Parsons Avenue and High Street

  I assume this means mixed-use buildings, since those corridors are already mixed commercial and residential, IIRC. Or maybe they’re actually exclusively commerical … I know they are for at least a few long stretches, at least.

  Extending the streetcar line down that far might be attractive, but don’t forget that even if doing it in stages means it costs more in the long run, it also means potentially not biting off more than we can chew at any one time. Most transit plans go in stages.
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  Walker February 28, 2007 8:36 am

  Yeah, as much as I’d love to see a massive network of mass transit all over Columbus and Ohio as I wake up tomorrow, we’ll never get there if we don’t start somewhere.

  Better to start small to appease the skeptics and see where it goes from there.
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  Columbusite March 8, 2007 12:04 am

  I’m not saying we get 7 complete streetcar lines up & running, but we don’t want to start too small either. Currently (remember people will generally only walk up to a 1/4 mi to a transit stop), it will cover some of German Village & some of the Brewery District, the strip of High St downtown, skim the eastern part of the Arena District, and make only a little headway into the Short North and leaves out OSU. I’m just saying let’s actually put in one complete line if possible, not half of one with most of it consisting of downtown. I think as it is it’s currently more of a risky proposition than if it were complete. The city still needs to do a better job of selling it those who may be on the route & lay out all the facts in a concise manner.
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  gramarye March 9, 2007 11:28 am

  Even if that were true, the way to go about that would be to start releasing information about “Phase II,” i.e., where the routes might go next if the initial route does bring the promised benefits, so people in nearby neighborhoods know who’s in line to be hooked into the network next if it takes off.

  If the money isn’t there to go to those neighborhoods immediately, then it would just be making false promises and creating false hopes to talk about it as a current possibility.
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  ilovethiscity February 16, 2008 11:18 am

  Frank Fetch park is beautiful! The ‘cottages’ renovation taking place on the park is amazing too
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  Coremodels February 16, 2008 12:29 pm

  ilovethiscity wrote Frank Fetch park is beautiful! The ‘cottages’ renovation taking place on the park is amazing too

  You can have your wedding in Frank Fetch now! :shock: