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The final steel beam for the UACC was installed on Monday:

The city put together a little UACC construction site tour:

January community center update video with some nice aerial shots:

The renderings do suggest that some kind of screening will eventually be installed:

Demolition has officially begun:

The university says demolition could start "as early as November 6": https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/news/2023/11/01/increased-noise-construction-traffic-near-drake-and-towers

Just looking east of the river, these are all the proposed demolitions I could find:

Was hoping it would be something a little more extensive, but based on that description, it sounds like it's only going to be a little connector road here: Would be interested to know what their plans here are, since (assuming that this is for the on-campus CABS buses) there's only one route that could reasonably be sent through here (and only in one direction if it's northbound-only):

Right now, there's about a third of a mile where the trail wanders onto the residential roads (in red) instead of being a dedicated path: The proposal (in black) is to build a new connection to keep bike and car traffic separated.

Less than two weeks after BZAP denied their rezoning request, the developers behind the Fairlington Heights project (now called Scioto Villas, apparently) are back with a new plan. The old plan: The new plan: It looks like they've replaced all of the three-story townhouses with the "master units" from the original plan, reducing the development from 22 to 15 homes.

The June Community Center update is out: https://communitycenter.upperarlingtonoh.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/220613-UACC-Council-Presentation_FINALr-compressed.pdf I'll spare you the details here, but it looks like they're aiming to start construction by the end of this year with a target opening date of Fall 2024. There's also new exterior design options:

The City of Upper Arlington getting in on today's fun in their weekly newsletter:

Last night's State of the City presentation included the first concrete looks at the design of the new UA Community Center. Apologies(?) in advance for the absolutely ludicrous number of images here. Floor plans: Interior renderings: Exterior renderings: And a link to the whole presentation for those who may be interested.

Something to look forward to: Upper Arlington community center designers narrow focus ahead of Feb. 17 unveil --- Keith Hall, managing principal of MSA Sport's Columbus studio, said he plans to present final recommendations at Upper Arlington's State of the City address slated for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Upper Arlington Municipal Services Center, 3600 Tremont Road. --- MSA Sport representatives are working to determine which of two plans should be selected. While the size of the building is the same in both proposals, one calls for a six-story building with an underground parking garage, and the other calls for a seven-story building with surface parking. --- Both proposals call for 50,000 square feet of leasable office space. Currently, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is expected to take up about 35,000 square feet and Nationwide Children's Hospital would take up to 15,000 square feet. Scheme A, which calls for street-level parking, tentatively would feature: • First floor: a plaza, a swimming pool and a child-watch area • Second floor: a senior lounge, programming spaces, facility administrative space and fitness space • Third floor: Nationwide Children's Hospital offices • Fourth floor: OSU Wexner rehabilitation services • Fifth floor: fitness space, three gymnasiums and OSU Wexner sports performance services • Sixth floor: fitness space and a 1/6 of a mile track • Seventh floor: a multiuse space and an outdoor deck --- Scheme B, the underground parking option, calls for: • First floor: a plaza, fitness space, a child watch area, pool and lockers • Second floor: fitness space, facility administrative space, leasable space • Third floor: fitness space, a gym, OSU Wexner rehab and sports performance spaces • Fourth floor: OSU Wexner and Nationwide Children's spaces • Fifth floor: a multiuse space, two gyms and an outdoor deck • Sixth floor: a 1/10 of a mile track

Just saw that the Building the Future page for the Energy Advancement and Innovation Center has been updated with what I think is a new rendering:

Are these them? Design 1 (Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones) : https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/161634/rec/4 Design 2 (Michael Graves) : https://digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org/digital/collection/p16802coll28/id/161369/rec/3

I don't know if we have a confirmed height for the North Market Tower, but here's my mockup based on some rough estimates:

A video from the school district with footage of the new buildings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Qta_A1a7o

This was the original concept for the entire project: Obviously there have been some design changes made since it was proposed, but there's still clearly quite a bit left to be built out.

"Get" is maybe not the right word to use since the old high school had a pool, but the new building has one as well:

My favorite part of this proposal is the bit where they manage to completely mislabel all three of these areas: That aside though, this is exactly the kind of big, ambitious thinking that I love to see, even if I doubt that all (or even most) of it will eventually come to pass.

If that's not the purpose of this thread, then I don't know what is.

That looks like temporary infill that was done to aid in the construction of the bridge. Once it's done, I'd expect that it would be removed.

I'm guessing it's probably a materials and equipment staging area for the tower construction.

An interesting bit of information from the March school board meeting that I missed: The district is proposing eliminating ~83 spaces from the new high school's parking lot in favor of a public plaza with information on the cemetery that used to be on the site.