June 16, 20186 yr Walking by the Convention Center today and noticed they have installed some living walls along the portions of the High St side of the building where it connects to the Hyatt. A welcome addition, I really wish more places around downtown would consider doing this (looking at you Ohio Theatre facing the Commons). I really like this, and hope they can continue adding things like this, art, etc to the main part of the convention center along High. Good start at least if anything.
August 1, 20186 yr Adviser hired for 23-story downtown Hilton expansion The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority is bringing a consultant aboard as it preps for a planned 470-room expansion of the Hilton Columbus Downtown. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/08/01/adviser-hired-for-23-story-downtown-hilton.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 26, 20186 yr Convention center's new garage designed to 'flow' with the wind "Designers say the 650-space parking garage that will serve the Greater Columbus Convention Center will feature a mesh exterior that moves with the wind. Schooley Caldwell Architects is refining plans for the Ohio Center Garage that will serve the convention center and the planned expansion of the Hilton Columbus Downtown hotel next door. Notably, the new drawings include a “flowing” facade." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/09/26/convention-center-garage-designed-to-flow-with-the.html?ana=e_me_set1&s=newsletter&ed=2018-09-26&u=8jkupSw9zIRhc%2BySqW4WOQ0354f4c7&t=1537964020&j=84038991
September 26, 20186 yr Convention center's new garage designed to 'flow' with the wind "Designers say the 650-space parking garage that will serve the Greater Columbus Convention Center will feature a mesh exterior that moves with the wind. Schooley Caldwell Architects is refining plans for the Ohio Center Garage that will serve the convention center and the planned expansion of the Hilton Columbus Downtown hotel next door. Notably, the new drawings include a “flowing” facade." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/09/26/convention-center-garage-designed-to-flow-with-the.html?ana=e_me_set1&s=newsletter&ed=2018-09-26&u=8jkupSw9zIRhc%2BySqW4WOQ0354f4c7&t=1537964020&j=84038991 They snuck in this little bit about the new 22-story Hilton 2.0: "The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority continues to work through design work on the hotel expansion, which has seen projected cost estimates from $165 million to $200 million. The authority retained JLL as development consultant to help it plan and refine the plans. Its latest projections show significant construction work next year and completion by 2021."
September 26, 20186 yr They snuck in this little bit about the new 22-story Hilton 2.0: "The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority continues to work through design work on the hotel expansion, which has seen projected cost estimates from $165 million to $200 million. The authority retained JLL as development consultant to help it plan and refine the plans. Its latest projections show significant construction work next year and completion by 2021." I recently saw some updated renderings for the new Hilton expansion tower. The design is looking much sleeker than the original conceptual rendering. Seemed like the floorplates were a little larger and the building a couple stories shorter as well.
September 26, 20186 yr They snuck in this little bit about the new 22-story Hilton 2.0: "The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority continues to work through design work on the hotel expansion, which has seen projected cost estimates from $165 million to $200 million. The authority retained JLL as development consultant to help it plan and refine the plans. Its latest projections show significant construction work next year and completion by 2021." I recently saw some updated renderings for the new Hilton expansion tower. The design is looking much sleeker than the original conceptual rendering. Seemed like the floorplates were a little larger and the building a couple stories shorter as well. Nice! I didn't really mind the early renderings but I thought there was certainly some room for improvement. Was the reduction in height noticeable?
September 26, 20186 yr They snuck in this little bit about the new 22-story Hilton 2.0: "The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority continues to work through design work on the hotel expansion, which has seen projected cost estimates from $165 million to $200 million. The authority retained JLL as development consultant to help it plan and refine the plans. Its latest projections show significant construction work next year and completion by 2021." Yep, they opened up RFQ bidding for specific pieces of the project already.
September 26, 20186 yr Convention center's new garage designed to 'flow' with the wind "Designers say the 650-space parking garage that will serve the Greater Columbus Convention Center will feature a mesh exterior that moves with the wind. Schooley Caldwell Architects is refining plans for the Ohio Center Garage that will serve the convention center and the planned expansion of the Hilton Columbus Downtown hotel next door. Notably, the new drawings include a “flowing” facade." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/09/26/convention-center-garage-designed-to-flow-with-the.html I was trying to figure out where this new garage was going. This map from that same Business First article helps:
March 11, 20196 yr On 9/26/2018 at 12:11 PM, Columbo said: I was trying to figure out where this new garage was going. This map from that same Business First article helps: I cannot express enough how I would like to see some kind of boutique hotel/condo/apartment highrise on that 60 space north parking lot on Goodale. *sigh*
March 11, 20196 yr Just now, Toddguy said: I cannot express enough how I would like to see some kind of boutique hotel/condo/apartment highrise on that 60 space north parking lot on Goodale. *sigh* Patience my friend. There's no way that site sits vacant for much longer.
March 11, 20196 yr 6 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: Patience my friend. There's no way that site sits vacant for much longer. LOL I am 55 years old and have had myriad health problems in the last five years-I can't wait forever! ?
March 11, 20196 yr 42 minutes ago, Toddguy said: I cannot express enough how I would like to see some kind of boutique hotel/condo/apartment highrise on that 60 space north parking lot on Goodale. *sigh* Next on the list of things to tackle I believe.
May 1, 20196 yr The tower crane has gone up on the site for the parking garage along 3rd, depending on timelines we may have two cranes on site before the end of the year. Edited May 1, 20196 yr by DevolsDance
May 1, 20196 yr 7 minutes ago, DevolsDance said: The tower crane has gone up on the site for the parking garage along 3rd, depending on timelines we may have two cranes on site before the end of the year. Pics or it didn't happen.
May 1, 20196 yr 22 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: Pics or it didn't happen. I saw it this morning as well.
May 1, 20196 yr 3 hours ago, DevolsDance said: we may have two cranes on site before the end of the year. Are they using 2 cranes for this project?
May 1, 20196 yr ^I think DevolsDance is referring to the Hilton project that may begin construction this fall. The tower crane might not be installed until early next year - I imagine there will be mobilization, demo and foundation work before the tower crane is installed.
May 1, 20196 yr Ask and you shall receive... Aww man, a little too late. Either way, now you have double proof. Edited May 1, 20196 yr by DevolsDance
May 1, 20196 yr 8 minutes ago, Pablo said: ^I think DevolsDance is referring to the Hilton project that may begin construction this fall. The tower crane might not be installed until early next year - I imagine there will be mobilization, demo and foundation work before the tower crane is installed. Oh gotcha. Yea it might be a few months after official groundbreaking before we see the crane for that project. Who knows, maybe Market Tower will pop up out of nowhere, the Hilton crane will go up quicker than expected, and this project will drag on. Three tower cranes baby! The AC Marriott may even use a tower crane, but I'm not sure. I think I saw they had applied for a crawler crane as opposed to a tower crane.
July 18, 20195 yr Was reminded of the 2010 Downtown Strategic Plan and its recommendation to build a field house on the Convention Center East Lot between Third and Fourth Streets on Nationwide Boulevard. It got me thinking of a concept I had/have. More than just a field house, of course. According to the auditor that lot is 294,030 square feet. That means two levels of underground parking could hold approximately 1,500 parking spaces. On top of that a hotel with a floor plate of 75,000 square feet and 35 floors tall could hold 1,000 hotel rooms. JW Marriott? Say this building has 100 feet of Nationwide frontage, and runs 750 feet parallel and along Third. On the Nationwide and Fourth corner could be a 20 floor hotel with a 15,000 square foot floor plate that could hold 150 rooms. Ritz-Carlton? This leaves approximately 200,000 square feet for a field house. But who wants to stay in a nice hotel like those two and have views of a 200,000 square foot bright roof? Enter: a green roof. This could have say a pavilion of sorts overlooking Nationwide Boulevard. Trees, grass, flowers. A miniature Columbus Commons available for events e.g. small concerts or American Ninja Warrior. Then you could have outdoor sand volleyball courts, tennis courts, basketball courts etc. Available to the public as a park when not rented. All this of course would be connected to the existing Convention Center complex underneath Third. I figure this would cost around $600-$700 million. I wonder if anything of the sort is still in the works?
August 19, 20195 yr The new parking structure has hit 3rd St height so far and going up. I didn't realize just how close this would come to 3rd, I'm excited to see how the mesh facade treatment will look coming into downtown. Edited August 19, 20195 yr by DevolsDance
September 4, 20195 yr There are about 10 threads this could fit so I apologize if this is the incorrect one, please feel free to move. It looks like the Hyatt Regency has put in an application for a 275' tower crane for a duration of 18 months with the FAA. The existing structure is 256' tall I believe so 275' would be about right if they were doing something major to the structure but I have not heard of anything with it, anyone else? Maybe window replacement? I can't imagine they'd need a crane for 18 months just to do some HVAC updates or anything along those lines. Anyway, it looks like the actual application was submitted last year but just now re-opened in the system. I'm curious to see what this is about.
November 5, 20195 yr On 9/4/2019 at 12:37 PM, DevolsDance said: There are about 10 threads this could fit so I apologize if this is the incorrect one, please feel free to move. It looks like the Hyatt Regency has put in an application for a 275' tower crane for a duration of 18 months with the FAA. The existing structure is 256' tall I believe so 275' would be about right if they were doing something major to the structure but I have not heard of anything with it, anyone else? Maybe window replacement? I can't imagine they'd need a crane for 18 months just to do some HVAC updates or anything along those lines. Anyway, it looks like the actual application was submitted last year but just now re-opened in the system. I'm curious to see what this is about. Has anyone found any more Insight into this application? I hope it is window replacement. Swapping out the windows for a non-brown appearance would do wonders for the building.
November 5, 20195 yr 21 minutes ago, DTCL11 said: Has anyone found any more Insight into this application? I hope it is window replacement. Swapping out the windows for a non-brown appearance would do wonders for the building. Could it potentially be related to this?
November 5, 20195 yr 21 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: Could it potentially be related to this? Ugh. That's a disappointment. :-/
November 5, 20195 yr 7 minutes ago, DTCL11 said: Ugh. That's a disappointment. :-/ What? New antennas don't get you excited?
December 17, 20195 yr On 9/4/2019 at 12:37 PM, DevolsDance said: There are about 10 threads this could fit so I apologize if this is the incorrect one, please feel free to move. It looks like the Hyatt Regency has put in an application for a 275' tower crane for a duration of 18 months with the FAA. The existing structure is 256' tall I believe so 275' would be about right if they were doing something major to the structure but I have not heard of anything with it, anyone else? Maybe window replacement? I can't imagine they'd need a crane for 18 months just to do some HVAC updates or anything along those lines. Anyway, it looks like the actual application was submitted last year but just now re-opened in the system. I'm curious to see what this is about. Coming here to comment because window replacement on the Hyatt was just brought up in the PNC tower renovations thread. Back in November, this tower crane appication was attributed to antenna replacement. But, a Columbus Business First article came out earlier this month and in that article, it makes a very quick mention that NRI plans a $20 million dollar renovation. At the time I read that article, I thought about this post and meant to comment here, but forgot. Could the tower crane actually be related to this? Here's the article: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/12/05/talking-tifs-columbus-citycouncil-holds-hearing.html The important line: Hyatt Regency: NRI, the majority owner of the hotel, plans a $20 million rooms renovation, a spokeswoman said.
December 17, 20195 yr 22 minutes ago, TH3BUDDHA said: Coming here to comment because window replacement on the Hyatt was just brought up in the PNC tower renovations thread. Back in November, this tower crane appication was attributed to antenna replacement. But, a Columbus Business First article came out earlier this month and in that article, it makes a very quick mention that NRI plans a $20 million dollar renovation. At the time I read that article, I thought about this post and meant to comment here, but forgot. Could the tower crane actually be related to this? Here's the article: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/12/05/talking-tifs-columbus-citycouncil-holds-hearing.html The important line: Hyatt Regency: NRI, the majority owner of the hotel, plans a $20 million rooms renovation, a spokeswoman said. Room renovation does not sound like facade glass replacement(unfortunately). Also wouldn't replacing all of that glass cost more than 20 million?
December 17, 20195 yr The 18 month time frame makes more sense then. My guess though is that it's a more efficient way of delivering materials than a window replacement. $20 million doesn't seem like enough to cover both interior and exterior renovations of that extent.
December 17, 20195 yr So we could end up with a 275' crane next to the Hilton crane which will probably reach at least 400'. If we are lucky, we could also have the Market Tower up at the same time which would probably reach about 375-400'. That would be pretty cool for us crane fanatics.
December 17, 20195 yr 3 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: That would be pretty cool for us crane fanatics. We sure do love tower crane erections.
February 4, 20205 yr Parking garage from 3rd. You can see the mesh curtain things on the exterior that are designed to move with the wind.
October 13, 20204 yr Here's a time lapse video of the garage construction. http://www.meetusincolumbus.com/2020/10/12/see-firsthand-how-the-ohio-center-garage-was-built/
October 20, 20204 yr Here's a time lapse video of the garage construction. http://www.meetusincolumbus.com/2020/10/12/see-firsthand-how-the-ohio-center-garage-was-built/The interior tile art is a really nice touch. Especially for a garage that will have a good number of tourists.
October 21, 20204 yr On 2/3/2020 at 11:09 PM, NorthShore647 said: I really dislike the metal curtain thing they installed on the garage. I may be biased because I was in Miami recently and noticed the parking garages there have really cool exterior designs. Either way this is really ugly to me.
October 21, 20204 yr There's no bias. It is objectively terrible and half-a$$ed. It looks terrible day and night. Windy or calm. I really hate it everytime I go by it. There are so many more good examples of garage wraps they could have used. Some better ones probably would have been cheaper too. And with this being a major entrance into the downtown core, it deserved to be better. I think one of the oddities that drives me nuts is that the inclines are easily visible behind it. If that was the flat side and the curtains ran parallel or If they ran the curtains diagonally maybe it would be better. While the Goodale garage isn't necessarily anything amazing, I'll take 10 more of those over the curtain design. Also, the colors of the goodale garage can be tied to the convention center. This garage and the curtains don't really 'mesh' with the identity of the convention center IMO Sorry for the rant. I just hate so much. Lol.
October 21, 20204 yr 1 hour ago, 614love said: I really dislike the metal curtain thing they installed on the garage. I may be biased because I was in Miami recently and noticed the parking garages there have really cool exterior designs. Either way this is really ugly to me. I sadly agree that it is quite a disappointment. While I felt the concept was creative, the execution was kind of a flop. So many wonderful uses of kinetic screening exist that it kills me to see this turn out as such a let down. I just keep holding out hope they will doctor it up with lighting or some adjustments but I think this may have just been a bit of a miss.
October 21, 20204 yr 14 hours ago, DevolsDance said: I sadly agree that it is quite a disappointment. While I felt the concept was creative, the execution was kind of a flop. So many wonderful uses of kinetic screening exist that it kills me to see this turn out as such a let down. I just keep holding out hope they will doctor it up with lighting or some adjustments but I think this may have just been a huge miss. Ignore this. I am not sure how it double posted but what I said above ^^ Edited October 21, 20204 yr by DevolsDance Mistake
October 21, 20204 yr Wait...so that's the finished product? Wow....that is the most half-assed parking garage i think i have ever seen. I literally thought that the mesh curtain was part of the construction as a safety thing. That's actually part of the design...totally unacceptable in my opinion. Come on Columbus, i get it, its just a parking garage, but we can do better than this! Disappointing!
October 21, 20204 yr I can't believe they found a way to make a bare naked concrete parking garage look WORSE! Dang!
October 21, 20204 yr 1 minute ago, Toddguy said: I can't believe they found a way to make a bare naked concrete parking garage look WORSE! Dang! Yea, honestly, they should just take the mesh thing off because it looks ridiculous. It would be better off without it.
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