The Dispatch wrote Columbus City Council puts parking garage on hold
Monday, January 28, 2008
BY ROBERT VITALE AND MARK FERENCHIK
Council members tabled a resolution that would have allowed work to begin on a $14.5 million public-parking garage planned to replace a condemned garage at S. Front and Rich streets.
Ohio House Minority Leader Joyce Beatty accused city officials of ignoring her calls and dismissing her fears that 15 months of construction and the street closings that come with it would kill off a clothing shop she owns at S. High and Rich streets.
Her husband, Downtown Commission member and former state Rep. Otto Beatty Jr., told council members the city should just buy the S. High Street buildings that the couple own. They house his wife’s business and several tenants and are valued by the Franklin County auditor at more than $1.4 million.
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