6-14-21 update: https://8impact.com/360/thepeninsula/

 

(6-19-21)

 

 

Signage recently went up outside the 11-story apartment building at the SW corner of State and Belle streets. The building will be known as "One at the Peninsula"

 

The progress is looking great with the Gravity 2.0 crane in the background

 

 

 

 

20 minutes ago, NorthShore647 said:

 

This view is awesome! I'm so pumped to see so much activity on that side of the river.

3 hours ago, cbussoccer said:

 

This view is awesome! I'm so pumped to see so much activity on that side of the river.

I know! Just looking at the pics...well...I just have to control myself!  lol  It has taken decades! Finally!!!!

 

And why...WHY!!! Did it take us sooo long to get rid of the damn dam and lower the Scioto and get rid of the sewage sedimentation pond we had there for nearly a century?  

Edited June 22, 20213 yr by Toddguy

The waterway and drainage fields have changed enormously over the past 20 years and continue to change rapidly. We were probably better off to wait.

The scale of these projects is awesome, but I'm honestly more impressed with how fast they are moving. You can literally see visible progress every day they are working on the sites.

10 hours ago, GCrites80s said:

The waterway and drainage fields have changed enormously over the past 20 years and continue to change rapidly. We were probably better off to wait.

Hmmmm...can you elaborate on this? Seriously this is something I really don't know anything about. If they really could not do it until recently I would really be interested in understanding why. I know that with Franklinton it took the floodwall and hitting a certain amount of growth and expansion after that, but I am not familiar with anything about the river.

 

Does it have anything to do with the massive sewer project we had to dig underground?

Some examples are the amount of drainage required for highway projects, increased requirements regarding retention ponds, how close you can build a large structure to a waterway, how much and how far away a pond is considered impactful to a stream when you dam it. All things we've had to deal with at the farm or from learning about development and highway projects.

 

I don't think the massive sewer pipe is for that. For one it's supposed to cut down on odors -- which are pollution.

I saw this skyline picture posted to r/Columbus. It gives a good sense of the first phase will supplement the skyline from certain angles of the city. You can also see the Hilton tower rising in the distance. 

 

52 minutes ago, cbussoccer said:

I saw this skyline picture posted to r/Columbus. It gives a good sense of the first phase will supplement the skyline from certain angles of the city. You can also see the Hilton tower rising in the distance. 

 

Oh wow, all I thought of when I saw this picture was how much cooler this shot would be if the Miranova was turned around. Didn't notice all the construction! Going to add so much to look at from this angle.

43 minutes ago, TIm said:

Oh wow, all I thought of when I saw this picture was how much cooler this shot would be if the Miranova was turned around. Didn't notice all the construction! Going to add so much to look at from this angle.

They need to paint a huge mural on that side of the Miranova. It would be incredible and look amazing. 

Every time i see pictures of post-scioto greenway project, i always marvel at how much healthier the water looks.  My goodness what a difference.  I mean, the reflections are absolutely beautiful.  

Taken today 6/29

Seeing how much progress is being made on the Scioto Peninsula, I've started wondering when we might start hearing about plans for the next phase. I would love to see this progress like the Bridge Street project in Dublin has where they seamlessly move from one phase to the next. 

13 hours ago, cbussoccer said:

I saw this skyline picture posted to r/Columbus. It gives a good sense of the first phase will supplement the skyline from certain angles of the city. You can also see the Hilton tower rising in the distance. 

 

 

Something needs to be done with that abandoned bridge and ramp. It's been 50 years since it closed.

6 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

 

Something needs to be done with that abandoned bridge and ramp. It's been 50 years since it closed.

It’s coming down I think within the next 3 years. It’s part of the 70/71 reroute they are doing. 

26 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

 

Something needs to be done with that abandoned bridge and ramp. It's been 50 years since it closed.

I wish we could keep it up

I don't care if it stays or goes, just SOMETHING. Would make a nice mixed-use path even though those often suck if they aren't as wide as this.

11 hours ago, 614love said:

I wish we could keep it up

Would be so awesome if they turned it into some kind of garden. But I do see how it could be problematic to have people hanging out above the highway. Just takes one idiot doing something stupid to ruin it for everyone.

1 hour ago, TIm said:

Would be so awesome if they turned it into some kind of garden. But I do see how it could be problematic to have people hanging out above the highway. Just takes one idiot doing something stupid to ruin it for everyone.

Couldn’t they install some high fencing maybe 

^They did that at Miller-Kelton.

If only we could just fill in this part of the skyline! Also the Hilton tower is going to fit perfectly right there.

Edited June 30, 20213 yr by 614love

1 hour ago, 614love said:

If only we could just fill in this part of the skyline! Also the Hilton tower is going to fit perfectly right there.

If Harmony Tower happens, won't it be in there?

1 hour ago, TH3BUDDHA said:

If Harmony Tower happens, won't it be in there?

That’s what I thought, maybe not right in the middle, but in that area. 

This picture was posted on r/Columbus today:

 

Cladding is going on the office building (the northernmost building). 

 

Edited July 20, 20213 yr by FudgeRounds

Awesome!!!  I hope that the future buildings go higher. 

Here's another construction pic:

 

5 hours ago, FudgeRounds said:

Cladding is going on the office building (the northernmost building). 

 

This is the quality of material we deserve. This building may be simple but it's gonna be a great start and benchmark for future parcels here.

10 minutes ago, cbussoccer said:

Here's another construction pic:

 

And Gravity 2.0 flying up in the background!

1 hour ago, cbussoccer said:

Here's another construction pic:

 

I’ve driven by several times, but haven’t been able to tell if the third residential building west of the office building that’s supposed to be part of Phase One has started yet?

On 7/20/2021 at 3:33 PM, cbussoccer said:

Here's another construction pic:

 

I was in town this week and was able to absorb the rapid changes happening on and next to the peninsula. It's really exciting to see and this photo really captures it well. Hoping the momentum only continues, and it looks like it will. 

11 hours ago, CMHOhio said:

I was in town this week and was able to absorb the rapid changes happening on and next to the peninsula. It's really exciting to see and this photo really captures it well. Hoping the momentum only continues, and it looks like it will. 

I was driving home last night on W. Broad, and it was so nice as you're approaching the bridge, looking out and seeing 3 tower cranes and elevator/stair shafts all over the place!!!  With more to come soon too!!  I have a feeling cranes in Franklinton will be around for a while.

On 7/20/2021 at 4:51 PM, amped91 said:

I’ve driven by several times, but haven’t been able to tell if the third residential building west of the office building that’s supposed to be part of Phase One has started yet?

I think the only west building that’s started is the southernmost one (aside from parking garages). Looks like staging in the other west plots:

 

View from the south looking north (I think the elevator cores on the left side are one of the west buildings):

Edited July 23, 20213 yr by FudgeRounds

1 hour ago, FudgeRounds said:

I think the only west building that’s started is the southernmost one (aside from parking garages). Looks like staging in the other west plots:

 

View from the south looking north (I think the elevator cores on the left side are one of the west buildings):

Thanks! I was thinking there would be another, based on the map for phase one, but, reading further, it seems like it’s two residential buildings for now. 
 

I’m hoping they just keep on building after the first phase is complete. 

54 minutes ago, amped91 said:

I’m hoping they just keep on building after the first phase is complete. 

 

Hopefully they can seamlessly jump from phase to phase, similar to how the Bridge Street District in Dublin has been built out.

1 minute ago, cbussoccer said:

 

Hopefully they can seamlessly jump from phase to phase, similar to how the Bridge Street District in Dublin has been built out.

That’s what I’m hoping for too. 

This panorama shot from the Marconi garage gives an interesting perspective of the development on the other side of the river. Open the link and zoom in to get a better view.

 

 

1 hour ago, cbussoccer said:

This panorama shot from the Marconi garage gives an interesting perspective of the development on the other side of the river. Open the link and zoom in to get a better view.

 

 

 

Also reminds me how much the parking garage district hurts my soul. Le Sigh. 

21 hours ago, cbussoccer said:

This panorama shot from the Marconi garage gives an interesting perspective of the development on the other side of the river. Open the link and zoom in to get a better view.

 

 

I really want to see this view when the 15 story building on High is built, along with Harmony Tower!

34 minutes ago, Toddguy said:

I really want to see this view when the 15 story building on High is built, along with Harmony Tower!

I guess that's one thing to say about the Columbus skyline: that it has potential! Those 2 proposals, along with the Greyhound station, Capitol Square, the Holiday Inn lot, and the new courthouse, could actually make some decent overall changed to our gapped-tooth skyline. Though have to give the Peninsula, Gravity 2.0 and Hilton 2 their due, they're really making their presence known as well. 

2 hours ago, CMHOhio said:

I guess that's one thing to say about the Columbus skyline: that it has potential! Those 2 proposals, along with the Greyhound station, Capitol Square, the Holiday Inn lot, and the new courthouse, could actually make some decent overall changed to our gapped-tooth skyline. Though have to give the Peninsula, Gravity 2.0 and Hilton 2 their due, they're really making their presence known as well. 

And don’t forget Market Tower coming next year. 
 

But what we are seeing start to happening is what I’ve been talking about for a while. As much as I would love them, We don’t need the 400’+ towers. We need the 12-20 story towers. We need towers in the 180-250’ range. Those will help make our skyline more dense and seamless. 
 

Our skyline competes with almost any other metro area in our peer group when you look at the 15 tallest buildings. Compare is to Cincinnati for example. Their 15th tallest building is about 315’ tall. Ours is about the same, although after the Hilton2 and Wexner2 are finished our 15th tallest will be about 350’. Their 10th tallest is 354’. Ours is 408’.  Their fifth tallest is 423’. Ours is 504’. 
 

It’s not the tall buildings that make the difference between the two cities, it’s the mid-sized towers. 

19 hours ago, CMHOhio said:

I guess that's one thing to say about the Columbus skyline: that it has potential! Those 2 proposals, along with the Greyhound station, Capitol Square, the Holiday Inn lot, and the new courthouse, could actually make some decent overall changed to our gapped-tooth skyline. Though have to give the Peninsula, Gravity 2.0 and Hilton 2 their due, they're really making their presence known as well. 

 

17 hours ago, cbussoccer said:

And don’t forget Market Tower coming next year. 
 

But what we are seeing start to happening is what I’ve been talking about for a while. As much as I would love them, We don’t need the 400’+ towers. We need the 12-20 story towers. We need towers in the 180-250’ range. Those will help make our skyline more dense and seamless. 
 

Our skyline competes with almost any other metro area in our peer group when you look at the 15 tallest buildings. Compare is to Cincinnati for example. Their 15th tallest building is about 315’ tall. Ours is about the same, although after the Hilton2 and Wexner2 are finished our 15th tallest will be about 350’. Their 10th tallest is 354’. Ours is 408’.  Their fifth tallest is 423’. Ours is 504’. 
 

It’s not the tall buildings that make the difference between the two cities, it’s the mid-sized towers. 

As much as I would like to see the tall towers(I am a skyscraper enthusiast), the skyline is really the last thing the city should be concerned about. These infill buildings as mentioned are what will really make the downtown. Bring the midrises that will bring density, people, activity, and life to the CBD. Yes they will make the skyline denser and all, but they will make downtown more alive, providing residents, amenities, retail, etc. that will help fill in and connect our downtown. 

 

The 15 floor proposal on High is huge because it will have so many uses.  residential, retail, galleries, restaurants, rehabbing existing buildings, filling in another surface lot. And the plans for the artwork and all are great-especially the thing that will hang over the intersection. On the ground(and that is where people will be for the most part-or in the lower and midrise buildings themselves)is what counts and the infill and increased variety and activity/vibrancy is what will make the city a better place for residents and visitors. See the Short North-no high rises there. 

 

And of course filling in the Scioto Peninsula with midrises(10-20 floors hopefully)will be a part of that-expanding the "real"downtown to cross the river and connect with East Franklinton. Now if they can just connect it all with good reliable desirable mass transit!

 

*Again I LOVE tall buildings and have since childhood but I would take 5 15-20 story buildings with mixed uses, activated ground floors, and good designs in strategic places over a single 500 foot office or residential tower with little if any ground floor interaction.

Edited July 25, 20213 yr by Toddguy

On 7/24/2021 at 1:54 PM, cbussoccer said:

And don’t forget Market Tower coming next year. 
 

But what we are seeing start to happening is what I’ve been talking about for a while. As much as I would love them, We don’t need the 400’+ towers. We need the 12-20 story towers. We need towers in the 180-250’ range. Those will help make our skyline more dense and seamless. 
 

Our skyline competes with almost any other metro area in our peer group when you look at the 15 tallest buildings. Compare is to Cincinnati for example. Their 15th tallest building is about 315’ tall. Ours is about the same, although after the Hilton2 and Wexner2 are finished our 15th tallest will be about 350’. Their 10th tallest is 354’. Ours is 408’.  Their fifth tallest is 423’. Ours is 504’. 
 

It’s not the tall buildings that make the difference between the two cities, it’s the mid-sized towers. 

Between the 3 Cs I think both Columbus and Cleveland have 10 buildings at or over 400' (although Cleveland will take the lead here) and Cincinnati has 7 at or over 400'. Really cool how drastically different the skylines look when all 3 have a relatively similar amount of "tall" buildings.

On 7/25/2021 at 7:16 AM, Toddguy said:

 

As much as I would like to see the tall towers(I am a skyscraper enthusiast), the skyline is really the last thing the city should be concerned about. These infill buildings as mentioned are what will really make the downtown. Bring the midrises that will bring density, people, activity, and life to the CBD. Yes they will make the skyline denser and all, but they will make downtown more alive, providing residents, amenities, retail, etc. that will help fill in and connect our downtown. 

 

The 15 floor proposal on High is huge because it will have so many uses.  residential, retail, galleries, restaurants, rehabbing existing buildings, filling in another surface lot. And the plans for the artwork and all are great-especially the thing that will hang over the intersection. On the ground(and that is where people will be for the most part-or in the lower and midrise buildings themselves)is what counts and the infill and increased variety and activity/vibrancy is what will make the city a better place for residents and visitors. See the Short North-no high rises there. 

 

And of course filling in the Scioto Peninsula with midrises(10-20 floors hopefully)will be a part of that-expanding the "real"downtown to cross the river and connect with East Franklinton. Now if they can just connect it all with good reliable desirable mass transit!

 

*Again I LOVE tall buildings and have since childhood but I would take 5 15-20 story buildings with mixed uses, activated ground floors, and good designs in strategic places over a single 500 foot office or residential tower with little if any ground floor interaction.

Not to mention with an influx in infill buildings, it will eventually create the need for the really tall towers. There really is no wrong way to do this if the goal is to increase density. The big towers will come in time.

Push up land prices, push up height.

Progress pic from a few days ago, courtesy of their social media accounts.

 

3 hours ago, cbussoccer said:

Progress pic from a few days ago, courtesy of their social media accounts.

 

When this 6 block section of the Scioto Peninsula is done along with Gravity 2, I will literally pee myself when I see this view posted!  It has taken sooooo long to start filling in the dead area west of COSI! More than my entire life!!!!! and it is finally happening!  Good times in Cbus. 

Now.... if we could get the buzz generating again about the 3rd cultural institution on the peninsula. I wonder how much is going on behind the scenes nowadays. 

 

Back when the zoo extension failed, there was a big push behind the scenes to find another replacement. But those talks/rumors have largely fallen off even with this new development. I might have expected to start hearing rumors again with so much happening. 

 

But Wexner did just sell off a ton of shares so maybe a MOMA for their art collection might actually be in the works 🤔

 

Disclaimer: I base that off of no personal Knowledge of such plans. I've just always thought that he should build a nice big art museum for a big portion of their collection. I mean, a massive expansion of the CMA would also work but I still can't imagine having all that artwork and money and not wanting to have a massive showpiece building for your legacy. Of course, there's also a good possibility they would expand at OSU or build something in New Albany but that would seem like a missed opportunity to me. 

44 minutes ago, DTCL11 said:

Now.... if we could get the buzz generating again about the 3rd cultural institution on the peninsula. I wonder how much is going on behind the scenes nowadays. 

 

Back when the zoo extension failed, there was a big push behind the scenes to find another replacement. But those talks/rumors have largely fallen off even with this new development. I might have expected to start hearing rumors again with so much happening. 

 

But Wexner did just sell off a ton of shares so maybe a MOMA for their art collection might actually be in the works 🤔

 

Disclaimer: I base that off of no personal Knowledge of such plans. I've just always thought that he should build a nice big art museum for a big portion of their collection. I mean, a massive expansion of the CMA would also work but I still can't imagine having all that artwork and money and not wanting to have a massive showpiece building for your legacy. Of course, there's also a good possibility they would expand at OSU or build something in New Albany but that would seem like a missed opportunity to me. 

This is exactly the kind of thing I want to see. But I want something more than a museum-I want an art-based version of something like COSI-something that would include art produced in Central Ohio and other places being displayed, something that would include the history of art in the area going back to the Adena/Hopewell cultures with recreations of some of that art, places for traveling displays from other cities/nations, a retail part for the selling of art, a production part for making art, a place for art classes, and a large area for interactive arts-something that visitors could get involved in-especially younger visitors. And all with a large outdoor area devoted to Public art and all.

 

Call it COCOA (Central Ohio Center Of Arts)?? or something to go along in a way with COSI and locate it on the area west of the park triangle that the zoo thing was going to go on(locate the facility between Belle, Town, Rich, and the RR tracks). Make that triangle the open art/park area, and make that stretch of Washington Blvd a pedestrian walk with areas for public art and food vendors/seasonal stuff along it. Make sure to have a restaurant in the park area too-sort of like they have across the river. The space could also be used in conjunction with the Dorrian Commons space for festivals, etc. make sure there is a significant water feature that is interactive but not in the way of people actually being in the water-again we already have that across the river.  Basically make it a counterpart to Bicentennial Park across the river which would encourage crossing between the two.

 

Multiple uses all based around art would make it more of an attraction and more likely to be successful as the uses could be tweaked toward what works more/better vs what does not work so well. A not having all of your eggs in one basket thing.

 

Make sure there is a strong connection from this to the burgeoning new arts district(East Franklinton)and maybe even have nearby designated affordable housing for artists/aspiring artists.  Also make sure there are strong connections with the other area art museums, The Ohio Historical Society, OSU, and CCAD.  Get local institutions involved in funding/sponsorship. 

 

 

This is just the dream I have for that area anyway.  Who knows what will happen at this point.

 

*We can have the park be called the Wexner Memorial Arts Park with a damn 50 foot statue of him with a laser light show shooting out of the statue's eyes and a hologram halo levitating above the head-if he donates some tens of millions towards the cost of it all that is...Hey if it would work! lol.

Edited July 31, 20213 yr by Toddguy