Weir Arend Funeral Home Demo'd in Clintonville

[whopper jr]

I noticed that the Weir Arend Funeral Home has been demolished at 4221 N. High (just south of Northstar/Jeni’s/etc) It is on the same parcel as the Clintoville Chamber of Commerce building and the total site size is 1.01 ac. I would assume the CoC building will be demolished as well to clear the site, but don’t know.

The property sold in December 2015 for $1.1 MM to High Deland LLC II, which has a mailing address of 110 Polaris Pkwy, Suite 301 in Westerville.

Anyone have any insight?

[wpcc88]

Just doing a quick google search, my guess is condos.

[Pablo]

It’s a one story retail center similar to the building next door (North Star and Jeni’s). Same owner I believe

[Pablo]

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/21/clintonville-begins-new-development-as-funeral-home-comes-down.html

[whopper jr]

I’m sure they’ll have no problem finding tenants, but kind of underwhelming. Par for the Clintonville course I guess…

[DouginCMH]

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/21/clintonville-begins-new-development-as-funeral-home-comes-down.html

[Ned23]

Pablo wrote:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/21/clintonville-begins-new-development-as-funeral-home-comes-down.html

Once again, fear of the wrath of the CAC results a substandard project that avoids their involvement completely.

[whopper jr]

It just seems backwards that there is more density along the residential side streets in Clintonville at 2-2.5 stories than there is on the city’s main commercial corridor through the neighborhood. Plus parking is now legal along both side of High Street along this stretch during non-rush hour periods, so density should be encouraged. I understand it’s the developer’s time and money, but come on Clintonville!

[whopper jr]

And while I’m at it….Clintonville, especially south of North Broadway, could use a centrally-located municipal parking garage to encourage redevelopment.

[Eugene_C]

whopper jr wrote:

It just seems backwards that there is more density along the residential side streets in Clintonville at 2-2.5 stories than there is on the city’s main commercial corridor through the neighborhood. Plus parking is now legal along both side of High Street along this stretch during non-rush hour periods, so density should be encouraged. I understand it’s the developer’s time and money, but come on Clintonville!

Most of northern Clintonville doesn’t want anything better, I think that’s been pretty obvious. They like being a bedroom neighborhood.

[Eugene_C]

wpcc88 wrote:

Just doing a quick google search, my guess is condos.

Condos would be better than this.

whopper jr wrote:

And while I’m at it….Clintonville, especially south of North Broadway, could use a centrally-located municipal parking garage to encourage redevelopment.

As much as I hate to admit it, you’re probably correct. As long as we’re staying car-centric, parking garages are a viable interim solution. Just take a look at Kent, Ohio. Development stagnated there for decades until they built a large municipal garage/bus terminal. Then it just exploded.

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