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Gross. But didn’t they just buy and renovate their current building just within the past few years? Seems kinda odd to turn around and sell it now.

Work has started on the first of three planned duplexes from Healthy Homes on E Whittier:

Ohio State opens its west campus James Outpatient Care cancer complex (Photos) “About 250 patients visited the first day James Outpatient Care opened on Ohio State University's west campus, and 440 the second. That number will keep growing. The $357 million, 384,000-square-foot companion to James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute of OSU Wexner Medical Center opened last Monday, following three years of construction and more than five years of planning. The facility moves outpatient services to an easy-to-reach location out of the main hospital complex and soon will add Central Ohio's first proton therapy center.” https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/07/24/ohio-state-james-outpatient-care-slideshow.html

Looks like you were right. It was hard to get a decent pic, but these buildings are coming down today.

Some shuffling to prepare for the new courthouse project: Franklin County Sheriff's office moving to East Main Street “The sheriff's office will move to 55-57 E. Main St., which was formerly occupied by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency. That agency moved to 2600 Corporate Exchange Dr. The sheriff's offices were in the James A. Karnes Building at 410 S. High, but Franklin County sold that building to the city of Columbus to make way for the municipal courthouse. With the planned construction, the sheriff's office will move in the next six months, a county spokesman said. The new courthouse will be built on the site of the Karnes Building and Dorrian Commons Park. The new courthouse will replace the current, leased building at 375 S. High St., which has needed many repairs over the years, the city said.” https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/07/24/franklin-county-sheriffs-office-moving-to.html

I believe that particular building is a utility/meter room. But the fourplex should end up going at the corner of Hartford and State.

Metro Dev has another 240 units proposed at 2195 Holt Rd. This is only about half a mile away from their proposed development at 4300 Alkire.

Looks like four three story buildings with some interior parking:

Site plan for the next phase of QT is out. Looks like 492 units spread over eight buildings, plus an amenity building.

The city has selected Columbus Empowerment Corporation to run its Downtown Commercial Marketplace Program, which was first announced at the beginning of this year. “The City of Columbus will launch a Downtown Commercial Marketplace Program to support up to ten existing businesses relocating or expanding to downtown Columbus to stimulate downtown commercial activity. The business advisor will assist the selected business in achieving financial success, measured through profit and loss statements through planning, counseling, and connecting businesses with other business development resources. The advisor will also be responsible for reaching out to neighboring small businesses to offer business counseling and to offer to connect the businesses to business development resources.” https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6295938&GUID=099174AF-2647-4C20-92F9-EAC1F9D12E13&FullText=1 As far as I can tell, they haven’t announced a location yet. Although I wonder if plans may have changed from a single marketplace style to potentially up to 10 separate storefronts?

Was this the project that was from Arch City Dev?

Exterior painting ongoing on the Standard building.

Do you guessing or do you have some intel? Haha

I went back there to look…still no movement of course 😢

The Whittier Peninsula. Like right next to the Bloc Garten building.

I think this might technically be just outside the boundary of the West Scioto Area, but close enough lol Crawford Hoying developing new freezer-cooler storage facility on city's far west side “Crawford Hoying is developing its second cold storage facility in Central Ohio. The Dublin-based developer, in partnership with BGO Cold Storage and Contegra Construction, has broken ground on a freezer-cooler facility at 2865 Charter St. on the far west side of Columbus. The 179,000-square-foot facility is about 1 mile from Interstate 270 and roughly 3 miles from Interstate 70. No tenants have been announced for the project. The leasing agent for the building is CBRE.“ https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/07/21/crawford-hoying-freezer-cooler-building-columbus.html

From that article: ”In addition to investing in those projects, CMHA also is working on redeveloping the former United Way building in downtown Columbus. The proposed project would create a 12-story building with 135 units at various rent rates. The project is expected to cost $70 million and wrap up in late 2025 or early 2026, according to CMHA.” Is that an updated timeline, or is it from old reporting? The last update I remember seeing was on the historic structure nonsense. I’m hoping this still gets built. It’d be a great way to help revitalize that end of downtown.

The Taylor Ave apartment building has gone vertical. Also noticed fencing around the perimeter of the building at the corner of Taylor and Mount Vernon. Anyone know of any plans here? I’d love to see a rehab.

Construction is ongoing for the new CMR restaurant.

A few more details and renderings from CBF: (Can we avoid the fear mongering talk this time, please?) Champion Cos. bringing nearly 400 apartments to Worthington area ‘"We think we're adding a lot of value to the area just by razing this 40-year-old building that is vacant and replacing it with a Class A apartment community that will fill a huge demand in that sub-market," Yeager said. Champion Cos. is set to close on the land deal Friday and plans to demolish the existing building in the next few months. The firm would break ground on the new buildings in the first quarter of 2024. The project is in a Columbus community reinvestment area, so Champion Cos. will be holding 10% of the units for renters at 80% of the area median income and 10% for those at 60% of the area median income. The apartments, dubbed the Retreat at Crosswoods, will have a clubhouse with a pool, grill and fire pits, a 24-hour fitness facility, coworking space and a dog park.“ https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/07/21/champion-cos-campus-view.html

Ohio budget provides first 'comprehensive housing policy.' Here's what's in it “Housing advocates said new affordable housing initiatives in the state's biennial budget are vital to address the growing need for housing that is becoming too expensive for many. "It's a great start to move Ohio forward, a tool to create 4,000 units over the next four years," said Amy Riegel, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio. The budget the Ohio General Assembly approved on June 30 include measures that the Senate planned to strip out. That includes $100 million for a state tax credit program to help finance those 4,000 rental units, and also tax credits for single-family housing. Carlie Boos, executive director of the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio, said the new state tax credits fill a financing gap when coupled with federal tax credits,. "It's exactly what the state needs," Boos said.“ https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2023/07/20/ohio-budget-will-aid-housing-affordability-officials-say/70392682007/

Thanks! I was trying to open that one on my phone, but apparently the file was too large lol

Stark has submitted a concept presentation for the vacant site at 2711 N High. https://columbusohdev.app.box.com/s/3c0fwezuca6zo73syi6gjyszwzkpo01a Did they propose something here a few years back?

Yes, ADS has a new facility going in nearby. Which, coincidentally, the Dispatch ran a story about today: Hilliard company's expansion reaches milestone “The steel is up on Advanced Drainage System's $65 million Engineering and Technology Center under construction on the corner Davidson Road and Lyman Drive in Hilliard. The company, often called simply ADS, calls the project "the world's most advanced stormwater engineering center dedicated to product engineering, recycled plastics and materials science." When it opens early next year, the center is expected to add 200 workers to the company's staff of 5,500, more than 450 of them in central Ohio. ADS broke ground on the 110,000-square-foot center in October and erected the first steel beams on the building last week.” https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2023/07/20/65-million-hilliard-project-goes-vertical/70431819007/

This isn’t ever getting built: Central Ohio Community Improvement Corp. and developer in legal battle over west Columbus site “Central Ohio Community Improvement Corp. is once again trying to buy back a west Columbus site where a planned apartment project from developer First Global Investments has yet to materialize more than three years after the initial land deal. The land bank, which sold FGI the property in 2020, had been working on a tentative agreement with the developer in late 2022 to resolve the parties' conflict over the alleged lack of progress at the site. […] The disagreement centers on the fact that when COCIC sold FGI the land in early 2020, the land bank included a clause stating it could repurchase the property if the terms of the agreement weren't upheld. COCIC says that FGI violated the terms of the agreement by not developing the land within the agreed upon timeline. COCIC wants the court rule that FGI is in default of the contract and the land bank is entitled to buy back the property. The land bank is also seeking damages. In its response to the complaint, FGI argues that any "controversy" COCIC is complaining about is "manufactured for ulterior motives," and says COICIC "has not suffered any damage due to FGI's alleged conduct."’ https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/07/20/cocic-lawsuit.html