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A pair of East Side development updates arrive today as 10TV announces that the Poindexter Village Housing Project Could Be Torn Down and The Dispatch reports that the former Woodland Meadows Site may end up in the City’s Hands. Poindexter Tower is a part of the historic Poindexter Village public housing project that opened in 1940, and has sat vacant for the past eight years. Woodland Meadows was a 52-acre residential area where demolition began in 2007 and has been for sale since early 2009.
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Updates on Poindexter Tower & Woodland Meadows
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Now if they could only include Wedgewood (looks just like Woodland, but on the westside), that would be great.
The end of the Woodland Meadows article said something about a construction project on a parking garage on Front, what’s that going to be?
The article said something about the building being used for the “Downtown municipal building campus”. So I guess just a city of Columbus building? Glad to see something being done with that parking garage. Defiantly one ugly building as it is now.
I believe this parking garage mentioned –
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=98+N+Front+st,+columbus+oh&sll=39.964787,-83.003254&sspn=0.003302,0.006968&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=98+N+Front+St,+Columbus,+Franklin,+Ohio+43215&ll=39.964271,-83.002208&spn=0.00083,0.001742&t=h&z=20
futureman Says: The article said something about the building being used for the “Downtown municipal building campusâ€Â. So I guess just a city of Columbus building?
My impression/assumption is that they want to relocate the municipal parking lots into that garage to make way for the redevelopment described here: Downtown police building may get a makeover
Yes, that does make more sense. Perhaps they might upgrade the facade a little. It kind of looks like a condemned building as it is now (reminiscent of the old Lazarus garage).
+1 futureman – That garage is such an eyesore. I really hope the city improves it. Interesting note, after some auditor-site-investigation the last time money changed hands (the most recent was shortly before the city announced plans for the revamped police station as a general warranty transfer for no money, coincidence? hmm) was a couple of years ago for 3.2mil. While the city didn’t pay a premium it would seem that they could have bartered a little more for the property given it’s condition and the soft real estate market downtown.
the 10TV article about Poindexter Village states:
“Owners of about 30 units still have to be notified of the plan, Ramos reported.”
How do individuals exactly “own” a unit in public housing? I didn’t know you could purchase them outright. Moreover, the building has been vacant and windowless for 8+ years, who the heck still owns a unit?
sad to see so many historic building being demolished in columbus. Although this particular one isnt in the best neighborhood and isnt in the best shape, it would be nice to see the city getting more involved in trying to save buildings like this, most importantly downtown.
City buys Woodland Meadows site for $2 million
Monday, June 14, 2010
BY ROBERT VITALE
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Columbus City Council members tonight approved the Development Department’s proposed purchase of 52 East Side acres where the Woodland Meadows apartments once stood.
The city has no plans for how the property might be used, but officials said ownership will give government and nearby residents more control over its future.
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From the Dispatch…
Paperwork slows Poindexter Tower’s demise
City talking with last few condo owners or their estates
By Elizabeth Gibson
Slabs of stone, bundles of wire and anything else that might once have been of value already have been stripped from Poindexter Tower by looters.
It might be months before Columbus obtains a demolition order for the rundown high-rise on the Near East Side, but Franklin County took a step forward Tuesday by acquiring another block of condominium units.
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/02/24/copy/paperwork-slows-high-rises-demise.html?adsec=politics&sid=101