November 20, 20204 yr Existing structures on the site of the recently proposed 13 story tower at 199-209 East Broad. I think this is the same boards on their windows from May, although it could be from early November. Regardless I thought they seemed to stay boarded up longer than other properties downtown when I would ride by, so incoming demolition makes sense. (Thur. 11-19-20)
November 22, 20204 yr On 11/20/2020 at 2:08 PM, NorthShore647 said: I wish they would at least include this façade as part of what they're saving. It's a handsome old building, just needs a pressure washing.
December 16, 20204 yr 13-story tower could rise on Broad Street The Gilbert Apartments would rise at 195 E. Broad St., across the street from PNC Tower. The 104,364-square-foot tower includes 133 apartments, including 35 studios of 536 to 597 square feet, 69 one-bedroom units of 718 to 888 square feet and 35 two-bedroom units of 978 to 1,174 square feet. The new tower would replace two shorter commercial buildings at 199 and 209 E. Broad St., which were built around 1910 and were long home to two local institutions, the WCOL radio station and the American Civil Liberties Union. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/12/16/13-story-tower-pitched-downtown.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 19, 20214 yr On 12/16/2019 at 4:23 PM, Pablo said: https://www.dispatch.com/business/20191216/downtownrsquos-pnc-tower-poised-for-overhaul Looks like this project is starting
March 23, 20223 yr CU’s article on the Downtown Commission’s meeting includes updated renderings for the PNC Tower plaza. I think I like this better than the original plan. Downtown Commission: Plans Heard for Salesian Building, Continental Centre, PNC Tower “Today, Tony Thornton from Stantec Architecture presented a revision to the design of the plaza – instead of landscaping and outdoor seating along Lazelle Street, a new glass-enclosed structure would hold a restaurant space. Several commissioners praised the design of the new building and the revision passed unanimously.” https://columbusunderground.com/downtown-commission-plans-heard-for-salesian-building-continental-centre-pnc-tower-bw1/
March 28, 20223 yr Take a look at the latest plans for PNC Plaza's transformation Edwards Cos. is adding a glass-enclosed restaurant space along Lazelle Street as part of its renovation of downtown's PNC Plaza. The 1970s-era office tower, at 155 E. Broad St., is currently being converted for residential use with some ground-floor office and retail space. About half of the 360,000-square-foot building will remain office space. The most significant piece of the renovation includes removing the dark glass atrium on the ground floor of the building in order to replace it with a below-grade garden element connected to an underground restaurant. The atrium has already been removed. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/03/28/new-pnc-plans.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 28, 20223 yr Wonder if we will get an updated name of the tower before long. Not sure I want to keep hearing about the (former) PNC Bank Tower. Fun fact. The architecture firm behind this building is also largely responsible for the Willis (Sears) Tower, Renaisance Center (GM HQ), Hancock Tower, and Burj Khalifa. Edit. And personally, it is among my favorite from the 70s. Among those built in that time period, it seems the least dated to me. Edited March 28, 20223 yr by DTCL11
March 28, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, DTCL11 said: Wonder if we will get an updated name of the tower before long. Not sure I want to keep hearing about the (former) PNC Bank Tower. Fun fact. The architecture firm behind this building is also largely responsible for the Willis (Sears) Tower, Renaisance Center (GM HQ), Hancock Tower, and Burj Khalifa. Edit. And personally, it is among my favorite from the 70s. Among those built in that time period, it seems the least dated to me. I figured it would stay the PNC building. They are still in the building and I think are taking up all the office space.
March 28, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, DTCL11 said: Wonder if we will get an updated name of the tower before long. Not sure I want to keep hearing about the (former) PNC Bank Tower. Fun fact. The architecture firm behind this building is also largely responsible for the Willis (Sears) Tower, Renaisance Center (GM HQ), Hancock Tower, and Burj Khalifa. Edit. And personally, it is among my favorite from the 70s. Among those built in that time period, it seems the least dated to me. I love a good rectangle with perfectly symmetrical window placement. The PNC Building looks like it could be the smaller cousin of Republic Plaza in Denver. Nice, clean and simple executed very well.
March 28, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, DTCL11 said: Fun fact. The architecture firm behind this building is also largely responsible for the Willis (Sears) Tower. This makes a lot of sense, it definitely has that same stacked boxes feel
May 23, 20223 yr PNC Plaza catwalk could soon be transformed into downtown Columbus' own elevated park Plans for an elevated park near Capitol Square could soon become a reality. Edwards Urban, which is renovating to the PNC Plaza building at 155 E. Broad St., wants to rehab an elevated catwalk that runs behind the building and connects to the Capital Plaza Parking Garage at 50 S. Young St. If the plans, set for final review before the Downtown Commission Tuesday morning, are approved, the developer would remove the covering of the catwalk and build out an open garden with a walkway, extending the property one more block to Capitol Square. The 760-foot catwalk would then be open to the public as a half-acre urban park. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/05/23/edwards-park-walk-pnc-plaza.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 24, 20223 yr Downtown Comish gave it conditional approval: Downtown Commission approves elevated walkway with plants, benches “The Columbus Downtown Commission on Tuesday approved the plan after commissioners expressed concerns over security on the walkway and lighting underneath. Commission members conditioned the approval on the Edwards Companies presenting a more detailed security, signage and access plan for the walkway. The current walkway's cover would be removed, and the platform covered in plants and furniture to create "an elevated downtown park," said Karen McCoy, the project designer with the landscape design firm MKSK. McCoy and others representing the Edwards Companies said the company is working with potential restaurant tenants in the PNC and Galleria buildings. The Galleria restaurant would use the new plaza under the walkway for outdoor seating.“ https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/05/20/downtown-elevated-walk-would-park-like-path-under-proposal/9835453002/?itm_source=premium_bundle&itm_medium=onsite
May 25, 20223 yr 20 hours ago, amped91 said: Downtown Comish gave it conditional approval: Downtown Commission approves elevated walkway with plants, benches “The Columbus Downtown Commission on Tuesday approved the plan after commissioners expressed concerns over security on the walkway and lighting underneath. Commission members conditioned the approval on the Edwards Companies presenting a more detailed security, signage and access plan for the walkway. The current walkway's cover would be removed, and the platform covered in plants and furniture to create "an elevated downtown park," said Karen McCoy, the project designer with the landscape design firm MKSK. McCoy and others representing the Edwards Companies said the company is working with potential restaurant tenants in the PNC and Galleria buildings. The Galleria restaurant would use the new plaza under the walkway for outdoor seating.“ https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/05/20/downtown-elevated-walk-would-park-like-path-under-proposal/9835453002/?itm_source=premium_bundle&itm_medium=onsite Anyone have any idea what was meant by that last quote in the article? Some commission guy saying they don't want to make a habit of removing people from the streets? What the hell does that mean?!
May 25, 20223 yr 23 minutes ago, TIm said: Anyone have any idea what was meant by that last quote in the article? Some commission guy saying they don't want to make a habit of removing people from the streets? What the hell does that mean?! Basically he doesn’t want this to signal they will approve similar proposals in the future. This is a “one and done” that was approved since the skywalk was already there.
May 25, 20223 yr 25 minutes ago, amped91 said: Basically he doesn’t want this to signal they will approve similar proposals in the future. This is a “one and done” that was approved since the skywalk was already there. Well that's incredibly disappointing. "We can have the one cool thing, but no more!" - that guy probably. God forbid we create pedestrian friendly walkways in the urban core! Get those folks back on the streets where we can run them over with cars!
May 25, 20223 yr 11 minutes ago, TIm said: Well that's incredibly disappointing. "We can have the one cool thing, but no more!" - that guy probably. God forbid we create pedestrian friendly walkways in the urban core! Get those folks back on the streets where we can run them over with cars! He's not wrong though. Pedestrian activity should be occurring at the street level as much as possible and there are a number of streets in the downtown area (Broad, 3rd, 4th, Spring, Long, etc.) that need to be made more pedestrian friendly.
May 25, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, TIm said: Anyone have any idea what was meant by that last quote in the article? Some commission guy saying they don't want to make a habit of removing people from the streets? What the hell does that mean?! 3 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: He's not wrong though. Pedestrian activity should be occurring at the street level as much as possible and there are a number of streets in the downtown area (Broad, 3rd, 4th, Spring, Long, etc.) that need to be made more pedestrian friendly. The Commission also publishes its notes from the meetings and the notes basically say the same thing as the quote. Ultimately they want to keep pedestrian engagement street level if they can, so they don’t want to make this kind of development a habit. More foot traffic on the street level is supposedly better for businesses, plus it just makes the area look more lively. It’s like walking down the short north on a nice Saturday afternoon. Honestly it makes sense to me, as someone who works downtown and hardly ever sees foot traffic. Buuut like the article says, this particular road isn’t used as a pedestrian road anyway, so it’s not like it’s taking from businesses or general energy levels. I also hope they do something like this in Franklinton like they proposed years ago. That would be a cool view.
May 25, 20223 yr 42 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: He's not wrong though. Pedestrian activity should be occurring at the street level as much as possible and there are a number of streets in the downtown area (Broad, 3rd, 4th, Spring, Long, etc.) that need to be made more pedestrian friendly. Why not both? Just look at what they've done in Minneapolis for ease of movement of pedestrians downtown. It's sky bridge and sky walkway galore in that city and they have a significantly more vibrant downtown than Columbus does. I for one welcome more elevated and non-street level pedestrian friendly features and activities. We don't all want to be sucking down exhaust fumes while strolling around. This city is just so car focused it's sad. Like if they are so adamant about activating street level, why do we not have any pedestrian only streets? You ever have a meal outdoors on High St. in the Short North? It's absolutely awful. Edited May 25, 20223 yr by TIm
May 25, 20223 yr 17 minutes ago, TIm said: Why not both? Just look at what they've done in Minneapolis for ease of movement of pedestrians downtown. It's sky bridge and sky walkway galore in that city and they have a significantly more vibrant downtown than Columbus does. I for one welcome more elevated and non-street level pedestrian friendly features and activities. We don't all want to be sucking down exhaust fumes while strolling around. This city is just so car focused it's sad. Like if they are so adamant about activating street level, why do we not have any pedestrian only streets? You ever have a meal outdoors on High St. in the Short North? It's absolutely awful. You are contradicting yourself. You complain about Columbus being too car focused, yet you support more pedestrian bridges/walkways that only work to enhance the car centricity. I'm a bit confused.
May 25, 20223 yr It's an older article but it sums up nicely why pedestrian skyways are generally bad for cities. https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2007/11/urban-designers-minneapolis-should-dump-skyways/ Quote The problem, Gehl explained, is that skyways violate the first law of successful city-building: keeping people together in a critical mass. Minneapolis’ skyways — as with similar pedestrian bridge or tunnel systems in Calgary, Toronto and elsewhere — disperse people over different levels at different times. On weekdays, skyways bustle and shops flourish for a few hours a day. But at night and on weekends, people are thrown out onto barren and neglected public sidewalks. A social hierarchy develops: the wealthier classes in private spaces on weekdays; poorer people out in public spaces at all hours. That’s not a winning formula, Gehl said. It’s bad for retail business, bad for culture, bad for civic life.
May 25, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Pablo said: It's an older article but it sums up nicely why pedestrian skyways are generally bad for cities. https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2007/11/urban-designers-minneapolis-should-dump-skyways/ Whatever Minneapolis has done in the 15 years since this article has made enormous impacts on keeping those elevated walkways incredibly useful while also keeping the street level active as well. It certainly is not an "if this, then that" type situation. Both things can be done well together to create one cohesive pedestrian friendly environment and maintain an activated street level. Edited May 25, 20223 yr by TIm
May 25, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, cbussoccer said: You are contradicting yourself. You complain about Columbus being too car focused, yet you support more pedestrian bridges/walkways that only work to enhance the car centricity. I'm a bit confused. We are already car focused though and they clearly aren't making any changes to how things are done around here to make it less car focused, so it's not crazy to say we should explore all options of making this city more pedestrian friendly and less car oriented. If the cars aren't going anywhere, then it's in everyones best interest to look into other pedestrian friendly developments. How much nicer would it be if there was something elevated off the street in the Short North for example so you didn't have to eat your lunch while sucking on the tail pipe of some jacked up pickup truck rolling coal? Or you get to use an elevated walkway to cross over High Street so you don't have to risk getting run down by an impatient driver who Deons't care that you're in the crosswalk? Until they actually start making big changes, pedestrian friendly developments that work around our car oriented infrastructure are going to have to be considered. Edited May 25, 20223 yr by TIm
May 25, 20223 yr 15 minutes ago, TIm said: We are already car focused though and they clearly aren't making any changes to how things are done around here to make it less car focused, so it's not crazy to say we should explore all options of making this city more pedestrian friendly and less car oriented. If the cars aren't going anywhere, then it's in everyones best interest to look into other pedestrian friendly developments. How much nicer would it be if there was something elevated off the street in the Short North for example so you didn't have to eat your lunch while sucking on the tail pipe of some jacked up pickup truck rolling coal? Or you get to use an elevated walkway to cross over High Street so you don't have to risk getting run down by an impatient driver who Deons't care that you're in the crosswalk? Until they actually start making big changes, pedestrian friendly developments that work around our car oriented infrastructure are going to have to be considered. So your proposal is to build an entire new street grid one story above the current street grid for people to walk around on or sit and eat their lunch on? Am I following your proposal correctly?
May 25, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: So your proposal is to build an entire new street grid one story above the current street grid for people to walk around on or sit and eat their lunch on? Am I following your proposal correctly? You are not at all following me correctly! Don't take my spit-balled random examples too literally here. I'm trying to be a realist here. We have A LOT of car oriented infrastructure. That likely is not going anywhere, at least anytime soon. We also live in a growing city with a rapidly increasing urban population that is also under serviced by public transportation. Cars are everywhere and will continue to be for decades to come and we are only going to see a huge increase in day to day traffic flow. It would be great if they were planning to account for this, but they aren't, and even then whatever they are planning is always decades behind what we actually need now. In a perfect world we would be eliminating car oriented infrastructure in favor of more public transit and more pedestrian friendly ground level developments. Eliminating all vehicle traffic on High Street in the Short North and reclaiming that space for pedestrians would be 1000x better for the city compared to my elevated parkway mentioned above, as an example. That is obviously the best option. Sadly, we do not live in a perfect world and have to plan for that. Exploring all options available to us to create more pedestrian friendly infrastructure, regardless of what that is, is just a good idea. These commissioners or whoever saying "this is the one and that's it" just seems so incredibly short sighted to me. All options should always be on the table to increase pedestrian activity and pedestrian safety and be looked at on a case by case basis since the car oriented infrastructure is not going to go away. Edited May 25, 20223 yr by TIm
May 25, 20223 yr The skywalk in Minneapolis is a little more necessary than here since their weather is so cold. Cincinnati built a very extensive skywalk system in the '70s only to slowly dismantle it due to changing building uses, maintenance costs and the detrimental effect on street life. The thing is, so many of these cities were incredibly vibrant in the '60s when these skywalk decisions were made that there was extra foot traffic to go around. Street life even in the '80s was really high at least during the day. Today, in a world of street life scarcity it is undesirable to split what little there is. With that said, one high line is fine. And Columbus is down to minimal skywalks anyway.
May 25, 20223 yr 10 minutes ago, GCrites80s said: The skywalk in Minneapolis is a little more necessary than here since their weather is so cold. Cincinnati built a very extensive skywalk system in the '70s only to slowly dismantle it due to changing building uses, maintenance costs and the detrimental effect on street life. The thing is, so many of these cities were incredibly vibrant in the '60s when these skywalk decisions were made that there was extra foot traffic to go around. Street life even in the '80s was really high at least during the day. Today, in a world of street life scarcity it is undesirable to split what little there is. With that said, one high line is fine. And Columbus is down to minimal skywalks anyway. I'm not advocating that we continue the trend of adding 1960s/70s enclosed elevated walkways between skyscrapers and parking garages. Just that excluding any type of elevated pedestrian access from consideration (both open and enclosed) is short sighted and they should not just be off the table because they were done poorly 50 years ago. Whether that's way above the streets, along the streets, going over the streets or even under the streets, just outright saying "no, bad!" makes no sense to me whatsoever. We can learn from the mistakes of the past ones, make adjustments and consider those types of developments in the future if it makes sense for whatever parcel of land/area it is being proposed for. That is all!
May 25, 20223 yr 31 minutes ago, GCrites80s said: With that said, one high line is fine. And Columbus is down to minimal skywalks anyway. We still have way too many, unfortunately. Some of them are understandable, such as the walkways at Grant, but many of them are unnecessary. Just imagine if all the Nationwide employees were forced to actually walk on the street during the day rather than being able to park, walk to their desks, walk to meetings in completely different buildings, and even get lunch, all without ever going outside. Pedestrian activity would explode in that area of downtown. You would create a market for coffee shops and delis. It would feel completely different compared to now when you drive into downtown from the Short North it just feels dead once you hit the Nationwide campus. Nationwide Pedestrian Bridges: Other Pedestrian Bridges:
May 25, 20223 yr Some of those are sneaky little ones I don't notice or forgot about. That is indeed just a few too many still.
May 25, 20223 yr Just now, GCrites80s said: Some of those are sneaky little ones I don't notice or forgot about. That is indeed just a few too many still. Some of them probably aren't used too much anymore, but the ones at Nationwide really frustrate me. I get why Nationwide would want to do it, but from an urban planning perspective it's incredibly frustrating. The walkways at High and Nationwide would actually be an awesome opportunity for something like what they are doing with the PNC walkway given its proximity to the biggest tourist/entertainment attractions in the city. It would probably get a ton of use and would become extremely popular as a photo opp if they created a little cutout above High Street so people could have that as a back drop for their Instagram selfies. It's also connected to Sensenbrenner Park so it could really help encourage more use of that space as well.
May 25, 20223 yr There are also tunnels connecting the Statehouse to adjacent towers on Broad and High Sts., the courthouse complex beneath Mound and Edwards recently built one beneath Gay connecting the Citizens building to the Nicholas. I may have missed a few. They all keep commuters off of the streets further dampening street life.
May 25, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, Pablo said: There are also tunnels connecting the Statehouse to adjacent towers on Broad and High Sts., the courthouse complex beneath Mound and Edwards recently built one beneath Gay connecting the Citizens building to the Nicholas. I may have missed a few. They all keep commuters off of the streets further dampening street life. The Ohio Department of Health buildings right across the street from Nationwide are all connected via tunnels underground as well. They do have to walk outside to go from the garage to the building, but it isn't like there are a ton of things to walk to in that area for a quick and easy lunch anyways. They all eat at the internal cafeteria as well since it's 50% cheaper than anything they'd get elsewhere and is actually good food. I imagine a lot of the big corporate buildings downtown have similar things going on.
May 25, 20223 yr 49 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: Some of them probably aren't used too much anymore, but the ones at Nationwide really frustrate me. I get why Nationwide would want to do it, but from an urban planning perspective it's incredibly frustrating. The walkways at High and Nationwide would actually be an awesome opportunity for something like what they are doing with the PNC walkway given its proximity to the biggest tourist/entertainment attractions in the city. It would probably get a ton of use and would become extremely popular as a photo opp if they created a little cutout above High Street so people could have that as a back drop for their Instagram selfies. It's also connected to Sensenbrenner Park so it could really help encourage more use of that space as well. That's what I've been talking about! Make this thing open air, connect it to the street then you've got an awesome elevated parkway for pedestrians to hang out and it keeps the streets active if the only way to get up there is to use the stairs/elevators on the street level. Have those entrance points dump people off at spots where you have a lot of foot traffic businesses and you've got a win-win!
May 25, 20223 yr I will admit, I like the skywalks since they look “cool” to me. I feel like they give a big city kind of feel—like, “hey, we’re so big we need extra bridges just for pedestrians.” But I totally get the street-level argument too, especially now that there are so many fewer workers downtown. So I completely sympathize with the commissioner’s desire for these skywalks to be rare and not popping up with every new downtown development.
May 26, 20223 yr 16 hours ago, amped91 said: I will admit, I like the skywalks since they look “cool” to me. I feel like they give a big city kind of feel—like, “hey, we’re so big we need extra bridges just for pedestrians.” But I totally get the street-level argument too, especially now that there are so many fewer workers downtown. So I completely sympathize with the commissioner’s desire for these skywalks to be rare and not popping up with every new downtown development. I really would not put what is going up here as just a skywalk. If it is opened up and expanded with seating, plants, etc. it is really more of an elevated park IMO. And as mentioned earlier Nationwide has a perfect pair of them leading to the Hyatt that would make fantastic expanded elevated Parkways. Some of the rest that are prominent will hopefully bite the dust in the not too distant future. Some of them are quite ugly lol-like the tall one over High at the Courthouse complex that is now gone(good riddance).
July 27, 20222 yr Looking forward to the completion of this façade refresh. Even more-so the conversion of the skywalk in the background to the Columbus version of the Highline.
July 27, 20222 yr 23 hours ago, NorthShore647 said: Work continuing on Plaza/facade restoration (7-23-22) It does look much better and has cleaner lines without the black glass mess at the base. Now what about the Third Street glass part? lol. I hope more office towers get a chance to be rehabbed and made into mixed use spaces.
October 26, 20222 yr On 3/28/2022 at 10:56 AM, ColDayMan said: Take a look at the latest plans for PNC Plaza's transformation Edwards Cos. is adding a glass-enclosed restaurant space along Lazelle Street as part of its renovation of downtown's PNC Plaza. The 1970s-era office tower, at 155 E. Broad St., is currently being converted for residential use with some ground-floor office and retail space. About half of the 360,000-square-foot building will remain office space. The most significant piece of the renovation includes removing the dark glass atrium on the ground floor of the building in order to replace it with a below-grade garden element connected to an underground restaurant. The atrium has already been removed. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/03/28/new-pnc-plans.html A peek at the below grade portion of the PNC Plaza renovation:
October 27, 20222 yr 2 hours ago, CbusOrBust said: A peek at the below grade portion of the PNC Plaza renovation: This along with the elevated park is one of the projects I’m most excited about right now. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
October 27, 20222 yr 13 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: This along with the elevated park is one of the projects I’m most excited about right now. Can’t wait to see how it turns out! Agreed! I’m impatiently waiting to see construction start on the elevated park. Have they announced when it is supposed to start or any news on that?
October 27, 20222 yr 15 minutes ago, 614love said: Agreed! I’m impatiently waiting to see construction start on the elevated park. Have they announced when it is supposed to start or any news on that? Count me in as well. Anxious to see Columbus' version of the Highline come to life.
January 8, 20232 yr Not the greatest shot, but glass and railing has gone up around the sunken plaza at the PNC tower redev, and some plants are in the ground too. This and the elevated park are gonna make great additions to downtown once they’re completed.
January 8, 20232 yr 53 minutes ago, amped91 said: Not the greatest shot, but glass and railing has gone up around the sunken plaza at the PNC tower redev, and some plants are in the ground too. This and the elevated park are gonna make great additions to downtown once they’re completed. This is one of my favorite projects right now. Hopefully it turns out looking awesome.
January 9, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, amped91 said: Not the greatest shot, but glass and railing has gone up around the sunken plaza at the PNC tower redev, and some plants are in the ground too. This and the elevated park are gonna make great additions to downtown once they’re completed. Hopefully the elevated park gets started in 2023
January 9, 20232 yr 10 hours ago, 614love said: Hopefully the elevated park gets started in 2023 Agreed. We need something transformative and unique in the heart of the city. I hope it becomes something that increases the livability of downtown and as well as serves as a draw for people throughout the region.
January 26, 20232 yr According to this CBF article, Cameron Mitchell is opening a steakhouse in the PNC building - Downtown steakhouse, new Easton eatery in the works for Cameron Mitchell Restaurants Quote The restaurant group confirmed to Columbus Business First that it has two new projects in the works beyond restaurants it already has announced. One will be a steakhouse that will be part of the PNC tower in downtown Columbus on Broad Street. The other will be a "new concept" at Easton Town Center that will be taking the space that previously was Bon Vie overlooking Easton's fountain. Cameron Mitchell Restaurants is still working on names for the new restaurants and declined to share any other details at this time. The steakhouse would be a return to downtown for Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, which previously operated M at Miranova for 20 years. It also at one point had Mitchell’s Steakhouse downtown, but sold that brand in 2008. I'm not a big steakhouse patron, but having a steakhouse downtown feels like a good barometer of increased activity/vibrancy.
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