Posted June 6, 201015 yr This is the Fort Hayes site which is choked by a web of highways all around it. Aside from the actual Fort Hayes itself there are a few large industrial buildings in this limbo area that's sandwiched between Downtown and Milo-Grogan. It's not a neighborhood: no one lives here. This was a quick jaunt I made before going to work a while ago and I was supposed to go back and get some good close ups, but I never did. So here you go: some sloppy firsts. MAP Mmm. I smell donuts. Not very pedestrian-friendly once you leave the major neighborhoods. Two words: nightclub district.
June 6, 201015 yr That Kroger bakery always makes that place smell good. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 7, 201015 yr Both the Arts Impact Middle School and Fort Hayes High School are both great schools within the Columbus City Schools district, and essentially a heartbeat outside of Downtown, Short North & Italian Village. Scrap the nightclub district idea and keep adding educational components over here. How about some family-style housing to compliment the schools? ;)
June 7, 201015 yr I had a dream one time that in a post-apocalyptic time not so far in the future, my gang took over Fort Hayes and Rickenbacker and lived in these buildings, dormitory style. We also used motocross bikes and race cars as transportation.
August 4, 201014 yr Ya, I'm with Walker. Anyone that thinks this area should be a "nightclub" district is out of touch with who owns the site and what great purpose the site is presently serving the entire metro. Columbus City Schools own the site and has been renovating the older buildings into new purposes on their Fort Hayes Arts & Education High School. It is a very well ranked school that has a lottery for entrance, as a district wide magnet school. Im happy the owners of the site are restoring the old buildings and using them for such a great purpose. Also, they built an Arts Impact Middle School on the site, seen in the above pictures. Part of the district's long range plan is to continue renovating and expanding on the site for educational purposes. They are looking at locating more schools on the Fort Hayes campus, kind of a point of centralization in the inner city for education.
August 4, 201014 yr Fort Hayes is pretty amazing in that it survives. Reminds me just a bit of the Soldiers Home here in Dayton. The old factory buildings are yet another reminder that Columbus has that obscured or unaknowleged 'rust belt' side.
September 20, 201014 yr Scrap the nightclub district idea and keep adding educational components over here. Well well well... http://tinyurl.com/fort-hayes-development
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