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There is a chemical called PFOA. It never degrades. It exists forever. It’s linked…Parkside on Pearl Proposal Brought Back to Italian Village Commission
April 19, 2018 12:07 pm
Brent Warren
Just over five years ago, a proposal to build a seven-story residential building at the corner of East Hubbard Avenue and North Pearl Street was met with some resistance from residents in the neighborhood. Concerns included the scale of the 47-unit proposal and the impact it would have the adjacent Italian Village Park. An agreement […]
Study Asks: How Will Driverless Cars Change Downtown Columbus?
January 11, 2018 12:48 pm Brent Warren
The 2016 Smart City Challenge win put Columbus at the forefront of a national conversation about autonomous vehicles, and plenty of people have since weighed in with opinions about what the technology will mean for the future of cities. A group of City and Regional Planning students at OSU recently studied the issue for a studio […]
Construction to Begin This Fall on New 10-Story Short North Hotel
June 13, 2017 7:43 pm
Walker Evans
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story indicated there would be no parking in the building at 800 North High Street. It has been fixed to include the building’s parking information. Final plans for the new 10-story Moxy Hotel building were unveiled this afternoon, which will replace the former Haiku restaurant building at 800 […]
Wasted Space: Surface Parking Crater in Downtown Columbus
November 19, 2016 11:25 am Brent Warren
The High Street corridor Downtown has witnessed a steady stream of development the last few years. The 12-story 250 High now sits where a parking lot once was, historic renovations are bringing the Citizens Building and the former Madison’s Department Store back to life, and the largest remaining “missing tooth” along the corridor — parking lots […]
First Floor Expansion Added to Bollinger Hotel Proposal
August 12, 2016 10:56 am Brent Warren
The latest proposal for Bollinger Tower calls for a first-floor addition that would extend the building toward High Street. The conversion of the 11-story building from affordable housing into a hotel received its first review from the Italian Village Commission last month. That initial proposal called for maintaining the existing green space in front, but […]
First Piece of Budd Dairy Development Getting Close to Approval
March 25, 2016 12:33 pm Brent Warren
The first piece of what could be a transformative development along the North Fourth Street corridor in Italian Village is close to receiving approval from the Italian Village Commission. The Lykens Companies presented the latest design to the commission earlier this week. Submitted renderings show a three-and-a-half-story, 35-unit building at the northeast corner of East […]
Big Changes in Store for Intersection of Fifth and Summit
December 23, 2015 1:30 pm Brent Warren
Developer Brad Howe’s Burwell Heights project got another look from the Italian Village Commission this month. The five-story, mixed use building with ground-floor commercial would hold 74 residential units and sit at the southwest corner of Summit Street and East Fifth Avenue. The first detailed discussion of the project by the commission was in March […]
