Development| Published on September 17, 2009 4:30 pm

OSU Adding 17-Story Hospital Tower to Med Center

By: Walker


According to an article published today in Business First, The Ohio State University Medical Center is launching a huge new expansion project, which includes the addition of an 17-story Hospital Building on their main campus. The $1 billion expansion is expected to add over 6,000 direct jobs, an additional 26,000 indirect jobs, and be completed by 2014.

Below is a rendering of the new tower:

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25 Comments

  • jpizzow September 21, 2009 11:54 pm

    Yea, the OSU skyline is growing faster than the Columbus skyline.

  • mtbwrx September 22, 2009 1:06 pm

    Maybe ignorance here, but I thought they tore out/moved the Bird Station (Police Helicopter-money pit) so they could build a new OSU facility there on Gowdy Field. I would guess this is another OSU hospital venture.
    I see they are calling it Gowdy 3.
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=23002&page=gr
    Link for you history buffs out there.
    I don’t like loosing greenspace fields for blacktop. Maybe OSU could purchase property outside of the central campus area and develop new greenspace/park area to replace, I could be dreaming though.

  • Likes Old Houses September 29, 2009 8:27 am

    The Gowdy 3 building that OSU is building is for outpatient women’s cancer treatment (JamesCare).  The idea behind this building is that it is a much more relaxed, tranquil setting to get your treatment, rather then going to the main hospital.  As for parkland, the Harrison West Society traded their support of the zoning change to CPD, for $1 million earmarked for parkland from the City of Columbus.  That land wouldn’t have made a good park considering its borders, and the landfill subsidence.  That money will be used for land acquisition in the HW neighborhood in the future.

  • Walker December 8, 2010 9:22 am

    $35 million tax break for OSU
    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010  02:52 AM
    BY DOUG CARUSO
    THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

    Ohio State University’s massive Medical Center expansion will receive tax incentives worth $35 million, and a struggling condominium project on the Near East Side will benefit from a $3.4 million city loan.

    On the Ohio State issue, the council approved a rebate of 30 percent of the income taxes that 5,615 new employees are expected to pay once the university completes a $1 billion expansion on the main campus around 2014.

    READ MORE: http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/07/copy/35m-tax-break-for-osu.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

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