Pizzuti talks about the Courthouse & City Center

By Walker | December 23, 2007 2:11pm | Filed under Development | Comments

The Dispatch wrote Building with an eye for aesthetics

Sunday, December 23, 2007

BY MIKE PRAMIK

Q: Will you be incorporating residences into the Franklin County Courthouse project?

Ron Pizzuti: It depends on when you’re talking about. At some point in time the block will be a mixed-use block. It will have some office, it could have retail, it could have residential. Certainly it will have food service, and it will certainly have enough public space that’s inviting with good landscaping and public art.

Q: City Center is just next door. Now that Capitol South Urban Redevelopment Corp. owns it, it’s destined to change. What do you think should be its future?

Ron Pizzuti: What goes into City Center has to cater to the folks who are living and working Downtown today. It clearly doesn’t now. How nice it would be to take the newly configured Town Street between Front and High (streets) all the way through to 3rd and create a pedestrian environment.

It’s going to be a mixed-use site. It has to be. If retail survives there it will be a different mix. It would be great to have a Target there, or Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s, and a post-office branch.

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5 Responses to “Pizzuti talks about the Courthouse & City Center”

#1
FADulous Says:
December 23rd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
It’s going to be a mixed-use site. It has to be. If retail survives there it will be a different mix. It would be great to have a Target there, or Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s, and a post-office branch.

Only if it’s a Target with a 225 foot ferris wheel :wink:
#2
thefightinglibrarian Says:
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:12 pm

The Dispatch wrote How nice it would be to take the newly configured Town Street between Front and High (streets) all the way through to 3rd and create a pedestrian environment.

Pedestrian environment! yes yes yes!
#3
joshua Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Is it true that the design of the courthouse has been toned down to save money? If so that is sad.
#4
Walker Says:
December 27th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Here’s the story from October.
#5
Walker Says:
December 30th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
The Dispatch wrote County still has faith Pizzuti can oversee new courthouse

Saturday, December 29, 2007

BY JIM WOODS

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Pizzuti Cos. has been fired by both Lucas County and Toledo, the county seat, but that doesn’t worry Franklin County officials who hired the Columbus company to oversee their $105 million courthouse project.

Pizzuti sued Toledo this year, and its lawyers are arguing with county officials over money owed. Both projects generated more than $600,000 in fees and expenses.

Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner fired Pizzuti in April 2006 as the developer of the city’s Marina district. For years, Toledo has been pursuing the project to turn polluted land along the Maumee River into a retail and housing development.

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