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(Photo from SciotoMile.com) There’s still a long way to go until the June 2011 completion date of the Scioto Mile project, but a lot of the progress is already starting to shape up. The most noticeable update is the reopening… [Read More]
The ongoing development in the Riversouth portion of Downtown just reached another milestone as part of the reconfigured two-way layout of South Front Street opens to traffic tomorrow. The stretch of Front Street between Broad and Town Streets will be… [Read More]
After the recent two-way streetscaping conversion, Gay Street quickly has become the gem of Downtown with new restaurants, businesses, and residences flocking to the area. And a quick stroll down the sidewalk this morning reveals that even more is on… [Read More]
From The Dispatch: City shelves plan for two-ways By Mark Ferenchik It was supposed to be a key part of Weinland Park’s traffic plan: converting 4th and Summit streets, two busy commuter routes between Clintonville and Downtown, from one-way to… [Read More]
It’s been over a year since our last installment of “Wasted Space in Downtown“, and this new update is actually a bit of a unique one. Normally we examine some of the existing holes in our downtown streetscape, but today… [Read More]
(Photo by Columbusite) The fan-favorite nomination for our “Best Urban Development of 2008″ was actually not contained to one specific project, but a whole cluster of development that occurred along Gay Street in the past year. The new Residence Inn… [Read More]
WBNS wrote Downtown Street To Get $8 Million Makeover Tuesday, July 22, 2008 City council agreed Monday night to spend more than $8 million to transform three blocks of S. Front Street into a pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly thoroughfare. Construction work… [Read More]
Press Release wrote McKinley Avenue to Reopen to Two-Way Traffic $13.7 million Improvements Nearly Complete in Franklinton (Columbus) Flood-prone McKinley Avenue, between Souder and Central avenues, is scheduled to re-open to westbound traffic Thursday afternoon now that major drainage… [Read More]
The Dispatch wrote Shops ready for 2-way traffic Monday, November 5, 2007 By Tim Doulin There will be a grand “reopening” of Gay Street on Wednesday. No fanfare is planned, and the street never was officially closed, but tell… [Read More]
Now that the restoration of Gay Street into a two-way street is almost finished, I think it’s time to figure out where the next conversion should be. I know the city has plans to restore quite a few of the… [Read More]
ColumbusING wrote Hang in there Gay St! Published by David October 15th, 2007 The target for opening Gay Street to two-way traffic is the first week of November. Construction and traffic maintenance will continue after that date for work… [Read More]
On the way back from my jog this morning, I happened to notice that the Gay St. reconfiguration from one-way traffic to two-way traffic seems to have begun. There are lots or orange barrels and construction workers tearing up the… [Read More]
No 2 ways about it: Businesses dread new Gay St. Monday, February 12, 2007 Tim Doulin THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Geoff Binkley likes the idea of making Gay Street more inviting to pedestrians, but he worries that making it a… [Read More]
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