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The Dispatch wrote
Developer partnering with local governments
Monday, August 18, 2008
BY JIM WOODS AND MARK FERENCHIK
Behind closed doors, Gahanna school-board members discussed a $5.6 million deal to buy an old Kroger site for high-school classrooms, stores and offices. Outside the room was the developer who drove the deal: Mo Dioun, whose Stonehenge Land Co. is working on public-private projects with Gahanna, Columbus, Dublin and Grove City.
When the board members emerged last week, they announced their deal with Dioun. The district will pay Stonehenge $5.6 million and build high-school classrooms; Stonehenge will lease land and build up to 100,000 square feet of retail and office space at Hamilton Road and Granville Street.
Dioun is best known for the $40 million Creekside project in Downtown Gahanna, a partnership with the city that features a park, offices, restaurants, stores and condominiums. But he’s also planning centerpiece developments in the downtowns of Dublin and Grove City — again with money and help from the cities. And he’s working with Columbus to develop a Menards home-improvement store on the former site of Northland Mall on Morse Road.
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My first time ever being on jury duty and my first case, was a civil case between Stonehenge and Beezer homes. We awarded Stonehenge $500k. Nothing really to do with this article, but I always find it interesting when this guy pops up in the news.
By PAMELA WILLIS
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Board members got a vote of approval from one resident on the district’s purchase of the old Kroger property to build new classroom space and approved a resolution that could bring possible government assistance to the project.
With the classroom space on the and, the district plans to create a “high school academy” with “state-of-the-art” classroom space and opportunities for students to earn both high school and college credits, said Superintendent Gregg Morris.
Stonehenge will retain certain ground lease rights on a portion of the land, to build approximately 100,000 square feet of business and office space on the property, which will be anchored by the school facility, Morris said.
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