I wish there were more projects like this, either public or private sector.  There are too few well maintaned apartment complexes within walking distance of the SW part of campus.  Many people live in houses operated by slum lords.  The rest drive into campus from the outer parts of Columbus.

Wait, you chose to live above a bar and was SHOCKED to discover it was noisy?

 

Since the tab for this project is well over $100 Million, when do you expect the university to "turn a profit"

 

 

I dunno.  I'm not privvy to the financial sheets.  But my guess is that looking at it from a more instinctual, "Was it worth the investment?" gut feeling POV, my guess is yes.

 

$100 million is not an excessive cost for a project of this size, BTW.  Big universities like OSU easily drop tens of millions on new buildings.

Gateway countdown

Developers optimistic despite unleased space as opening day nears

By Mike Pramik, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

In about a month, the first tenants will move into the long-awaited South Campus Gateway project.  Will Gateway be ready?  The answer is no, not as a completed concept.

 

The $151 million development, nearly a decade in the making, has plenty of office space and retail storefronts unspoken for as tenants secured so far prepare to move in.  But the project’s developer, observers and at least one signed tenant say Gateway is well on the way to fulfilling its objective of becoming a successful, unique campus residence and entertainment area.

 

To date, 12 of the expected three dozen retail tenants have been announced, although they represent more than half the available 225,000 square feet of retail space, Campus Partners President Terry Foegler said.  Ohio State University’s human resources department will begin operations in 50,000 square feet of office space Aug. 8, leaving about 40,000 square feet unleased.

 

Apartments will be ready in early August for occupancy by law students, medical students and others affected by the school’s limited semester system.  Most of Ohio State’s students begin fall quarter in late September.

 

More at http://www.dispatch.com

i'm interested in what will fill long's spot at 15th and high.

and whether the new tenant put a clock there too (i heard long's is taking the clock with them)

i'm interested in what will fill long's spot at 15th and high.

 

PLEASE let it be a grocery store!

yes!

maybe kroger can move up from 7th ave. and let someone else redo that eyesore

A grocery store would be a great idea!  I wonder how well suited that location is for a grocery store, though - it seems a little on the small side.  Half the space is in the basement - don't know how that would work with grocery stockroom needs.  Parking is also rather limited.

 

What about a restaurant?  Not fast food, someplace to sit down.  Perhaps someplace that would stay open all or almost all night... a la the old Insomnia?

 

*Secretly hoping for Skyline to come back to campus area*

Where have you been SarahBeth?

Good to "see" you again

Thanks Punch!  I've missed the site, but since January school and work have kept me too busy to visit regularly.  I tried to catch up with all the old posts once, over Spring Break, but once the new quarter started I fell behind again.  I just need to get my priorities straightened out - No homework til I've read all new posts! :-P

 

Are there any plans for a UO meet once this Gateway thing finally opens?

If we beat Michigan this year, I will throw some bricks at it!!!

No!  Don't move my ghetto Kroger!

If we beat Michigan this year, I will throw some bricks at it!!!

 

LOL! :-D

maybe the building isn't fit for grocery. probably for the best anyways, because kroger sucks :)

 

as for what will go there, i wouldn't mind a chili parlor.

 

 

I bet you it will be ground level retail with a parking garage on top.

 

My wager: 25 cents

hmm..

 

well, the plan is to close 15th ave. off to traffic, creating a little plaza and widening the pedestrian crosswalk there, so i'm kinda thinking a parking garage would be out of place.

(they also plan on opening up all the other blocked off streets to cars again (13, 14, 16, and i think maybe 18th)

 

cool, I like that idea

I like it too.  And maybe opening up the currently closed streets @ High Street will prevent the accumulation of beggars/loiterers.  I got heckled by a group of them at 14th the other week while heading to campus in the evening... I felt so uncomfortable that on my way back I stayed in a restaurant until my boyfriend could come and walk me home :(

That's the biggest load of shit I've ever read.

Yikes, who wrote that article? It's riddled with errors, probably the most notable being this quote:

 

The city of Columbus (Ohio’s largest, with 1.4 million people) has begun infrastructure work at the site of South Campus Gateway.."

 

Columbus' population is 730,000, the metro population is 1.7-1.9 million, depending on which stats you use.

 

Besides the point, no recent news regarding the project or the planned renovations to the streets along High. There's a PDF file that goes in-depth regarding the proposed changes, not sure where it is though. I think it can be found on the city's website though.

that was seriously painful to read, and the article was complete garbage!

I did a google search on the project and I came across this artilce, dated this week.  Man, Campus Partners loves to rewrite history.  If they didn't they would have to admit they have been part of the problem.

 

 

Where was that article located?  Some people need some scorn.

OK, a bit of an oops, I read the cached version that was listed as this week, but actually the article was from October 2003.  I think this is some shopping center industry mag.

http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct1003/page58.php?region=

My photo from this past Monday (7/11)

 

And from the OSU student paper (The Lantern) today...

 

Long's Bookstore moving to Gateway

By Angela Davis

Published: Thursday, July 14, 2005

 

Barnes & Noble, The Ohio State University Bookstore is set to open Aug. 15 in the South Campus Gateway and will integrate two existing campus bookstores into the new two-story retail area.  Components of the existing Long's Bookstore and Health Sciences Bookstore will combine with Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Inc. in the new Gateway bookstore, said Stephen Sterrett, director of community relations at Campus Partners.

 

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, Inc., which will run the new bookstore, operates more than 530 college bookstores throughout the country, said Kathy Smith, general manager of Long's and OSU Bookstores.  The OSU Bookstore has been part of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Inc. since 2000, but will maintain its current location in the Central Classroom building, Smith said.  Long's Bookstore was sold to Campus Partners in 2000 by the Long family and soon after was joined with Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Inc., she said.

 

"One of the neat things about Starbucks is that our customers frequent many locations," Smith said.  "The Barnes & Noble location provides a different atmosphere where people can drink our coffee."

 

More at http://www.thelantern.com

 

 

Because there were just not enough places to drink coffee...

"Because there were just not enough places to drink coffee..."

 

i believe starbucks has another location 4 blocks to the north of gateway. that should take the title of two closest starbucks in the area...

i'll still get my coffee from elsewhere though, i prefer the taste of cup o joe/staufs.

 

anyways, it looks like there won't be anything there for a while.

 

Another reason to hate Campus Partners (and Barnes & Noble).

They don't have the decency to continue the "Long's bookstore" tradition.  :shoot:

 

Let's see here, where should the Long Bookstore sign go?  OSU Museum, Columbus (History) Museum, the Sign museum (in Cincy)?  :cry:

Yesterday I found this postcard-sized advertisement at a restaurant near campus. I scanned the front and back.

 

I just went to the site and for the first time saw the price range for those apartments.  No wonder they are only marketing to grad/professional students and faculty members.  Those prices are way out of the range for undergrads.  The studios are going for twice what I pay for mine, and I have to stretch to make that every month.  That's cool though... that's cool... :whip:

Starting today both 11th and Chittenden will be closed for the duration of the week. When they reopen they will both be two-way streets from High to Grant (the tracks).

Did they get rid of one lane of parking?

 

The Long's bookstore sign was taken down yesterday, I presume they moved it to the new location.

 

 

And this article appeared in the Lantern:

 

Gateway center changes traffic flow to south campus

By Angela Davis

Published: Thursday, July 21, 2005

 

The city of Columbus has implemented permanent traffic changes around the South Campus Gateway area.  Crews began construction Monday to convert East 11th and Chittenden Avenues to allow two-way traffic flow between High Street and Grant Avenue.  Grant Avenue will also be altered to allow for traffic flow in both the north and south directions.

 

The goal of the changes was to provide better access from Interstate 71 to High Street, said Stephen Sterrett, director of community relations at Campus Partners.  "As the Gateway opens and there are more people around, traffic should flow more easily throughout the area," said Amy Murray, spokeswoman for Ohio State.

 

"Chittenden will eventually go back to more of a neighborhood street," Sterrett said.  "East 11th will be a major connection between Interstate 71 and High Street."  The plan is to eventually provide landscaping on East 11th, making it a more welcome entry to the campus area, Sterrett said.

 

Traffic lights are being positioned on High Street at the intersections of 9th, 10th, 11th and Chittenden Avenues, which will allow for more pedestrian crossings, he said.  "The lights will slow traffic to make it a more pedestrian-friendly environment," Sterrett said.

 

More at http://www.thelantern.com

i like how chittenden and eleventh are two way streets now.

 

hopefully they will change summit and 4th to two way streets too. they really need it(re-route 23 again)

From today's Dispatch:

(This actually sounds like it will be pretty nice... not just a regular Barnes & Noble.)

 

CONSTRUCTION ZONE

Bookstore’s opening will leave Michigan in the dust

Monday, August 01, 2005

Mike Pramik

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

The hottest search at the new Barnes & Noble bookstore at South Campus Gateway isn’t for a subject, title or author.  Construction employees have been trying to find out which one of their co-workers keeps scrawling "Go Blue" in the dust that accumulates daily inside the immense structure at N. High Street and E. 11th Avenue.

 

General Manager Kathy Smith said the offending party has yet to be identified.  But when the debris is swept up for the final time before the store’s Aug. 15 opening, the scribbling will be the last signs of the University of Michigan.

 

Barnes & Noble — The Ohio State University Bookstore is a study in scarlet.  Nods to the Buckeyes are everywhere, from the Block O’s in the ironwork to gray shelves with scarlet trim to a trademarked, 27-foot mural depicting university history and campus life.  At 50,000 square feet, the store is Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Inc.’s second-largest of 550 university bookstores, smaller only than the one at Harvard University.

 

More at http://www.dispatch.com

From the 8/15/05 Columbus Business First:

 

 

Gateway to renewal

Off-campus housing south of OSU seeing benefits from Gateway project

Dan Eaton

Business First

 

Spencer Elliott pulls no punches as he surveys the street where he lives.  "Chittenden (Avenue) has a really crappy reputation," the Ohio State University student said.  "It's not known as the nicest in the area."

 

Deserved or not, the not-so-flattering but not-uncommon assessment is the result of too many petty crimes, too many burned couches and too many images of riot police fighting troublemakers over the years.  It is that perception the university is hoping to combat with the South Campus Gateway project, a mixed-use development along North High Street, at the foot of the off-campus residential corridors of Chittenden and 11th avenues.

 

Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment, the nonprofit development organization behind the project, began opening Gateway's doors to tenants this month.  The project will include restaurants, retailers, a movie theater, offices and 184 apartments.  "Housing is not the money-maker for this project - retail is," said Campus Partners spokesman Steve Sterrett.  "But we want to set a new bar." 

 

The Gateway apartments are at the high end of the campus housing marketplace, with the majority of rents ranging from $580 a month for a 405-square-foot studio to $1,155 a month for a 1,082-square-foot two-bedroom space.  Around the corner, Chittenden and 11th avenues are lined with multi-residence buildings, some of which rent five-bedroom apartments at $1,150 a month.  Sterrett said 125 of the 158 apartments available so far at Gateway are leased after being marketed first to law school and graduate students.

 

Full article at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/08/15/story3.html?page=1

 

Here's the take from the student perspective...from the 8/16/05 Lantern:

 

 

Gateway an open book

By Lindsey Pond

Published: Tuesday, August 16, 2005

 

The doors of Barnes & Noble - The Ohio State University Bookstore - opened to the public Monday morning after Kathy Smith, general manager, cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony at the South Campus Gateway.  "On behalf of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, we're just thrilled to bring you this new bookstore to serve the campus and the community," she said.

 

The store combines the existing Long's Bookstore and Ohio State University Bookstore, which are both operated by Barnes & Noble College Booksellers under lease and licensing agreements with OSU and Campus Partners, Smith said.  Located at the intersection of High Street and East 11th Avenue, 50,000 square feet is dedicated to the new bookstore, which is the second largest of 11 Barnes & Noble campus bookstores in the nation.

 

Full article at http://www.thelantern.com/media/paper333/news/2005/08/16/Campus/Gateway.An.Open.Book-967196.shtml?mkey=980474

 

in other news, papa joes will be opening a new pizza stand a few blocks south somewhere.

I think this is where the success of the gateway project will be measured; in the amount of private investment that it spurs along High St. and elsewhere.

 

Gateway paves way for hope on High Street

Brian R. Ball

Business First

 

When Ohio State University created Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment Corp., much of the area around the main campus had long since hit the skids.  The Columbus neighborhood was marked by stretches of rundown bars and low-rent housing serving college students.

 

Now, after 10 years of planning and $150 million in investment, the South Campus Gateway project has begun a three-month rollout of entertainment, retail, office and apartment projects designed to spur more private investment in the University District.

 

Count Wayne Garland among those who have anticipated completion of the Gateway project.  "I'm hoping it does what I've bought into all along," said the Buckeye Realty president.  "We're just trying to re-establish the district in total so it becomes a place (where) people want to live again and not just where they feel they have to live."

 

Key to that, said Garland and other investors, has been building confidence that the concentration of investment on North High Street between Chittenden and East Ninth avenues mitigates some of the risk of investing along the well-worn stretches from Lane Avenue south to the outer reaches of the Short North.

 

More at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/

I honestly hope good things start to happen, but the buckeye realty property?  Wasn't that done about 6 years ago?  At first it was a blockbuster, then a bank one.

 

And the other projects near Lane, well when CP bulldozed South Campus, north campus gained all the students and the businesses followed.

 

I wonder if I would not dislike Campus Partners so much if they just would stop trying to exaggerate (or lie about) how good they have been for campus.

 

From Columbus Business First, 9/5/05:

 

 

Drop in at a New Town Urban Lifestyle Center

Kathy Bergstrom

For Business First

 

Nothing like shopping on a lazy weekend afternoon to pass the time.  But where should you go?  Let see, there's the Lifestyle Center, the Town Center, the New Town Center or the Urban Infill.

 

Confused?  It's not surprising - these are but a few of the terms defining where Central Ohioans soon will be shopping and spending their leisure time.  By next year, their choices will include regional enclosed malls such as Polaris Fashion Place and a new town center such as Easton, as well as a lifestyle center in Dublin and an urban infill project near Ohio State University.

 

People in the shopping center industry may not agree on the terms describing these projects, but the trend toward building upscale, walkable open-air shopping centers with restaurants and entertainment is gaining momentum in Central Ohio and across the country.

 

Full article at http://www.bizjournals.com/industries/retailing_restaurants/retailing/2005/09/05/columbus_focus1.html

 

Anyone been here yet. I bought a tee shirt at the B&N for the Texas game.

 

Just wondering what people think

I haven't been to Columbus for a few months.  I'd be interested to hear some prespectives too.

I think it fits the mold for what Ohio State was lacking:  Full-Serivce Restaurants. 

 

Is it overpriced for residential?  Sure.  It's intended for Grad Law School students so big whoop.

 

Does it suck that the old area around it is gone?  Sure.  But move on; I did with Aaliyah :(

 

Will it be successful?  Certainly.  It pretty much forced students to trek to the new "Longs" so that alone will keep it in business. 

 

Is ColDayMan glad Drexel owns the theater?  Yes.  Thank God.  Finally, an independant movie theater complex in Columbus.  Congrats, Drexel.

 

Overall?  "Yay."

Student housing, parking get boost from OSU plans

Business First of Columbus - by Jeff Bell, Business First

Friday, September 30, 2005

 

Ohio State University is planning a $61 million construction project to spruce up the main entrance at the north end of its Columbus campus and deal with parking and student housing issues at the same time.  A $33 million student academic services building would rise at the southeast corner of Lane Avenue and Tuttle Park Place and a $28 million parking garage would be built next to it, says a plan outlined for OSU trustees Sept. 23.

 

The project will also allow the university to move administrative offices from Lincoln Tower, paving the way for all floors in the 23-story building to be converted to their original use as student housing.  Trustees gave OSU administrators approval to seek bids from architects and engineers to design the 71,000-square-foot building and 1,500-space garage.

 

Full article: http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/10/03/story5.html

Is ColDayMan glad Drexel owns the theater?  Yes.  Thank God.  Finally, an independant movie theater complex in Columbus.  Congrats, Drexel.

 

Uhh... the Arena Grand downtown is owned by the Drexel Group. It's a complex. Probably the nicest theater in town.

Arena Grand also caters towards the main-stream movies.  I was talking independant movies, in which this Gateway theater would be a great asset to OSU.  Thus, independant movie theater complex.

The Arena Grand plays a mix of mainstream and indie movies. I watched the Aristocrats there not too long ago.

 

From what I've heard, the Drexel Gateway is going to be the same thing as the Arena Grand. A mix of mainstream and indie films.

 

Either way, they're both locally owned and operated, and that's always cool in my book.

I always assumed that the new Drexel theater complex at Gateway was going to be strictly indie films and one screen devoted towards a mainstream movie (to kinda compliment AMC Lennox).

 

Alas, it's great the university has it.

what else is in there or going in there as far as retail/restos/etc ???

A Footlocker, Panera Bread, some mall like Gaming Store, Columbus' third Chicago based Pot Belly, and a Verizon Wireless have opened.  There's also something like TexMex or some chain restaurant under construction

A bar/restaurant called Ugly Tuna, by the people who also own some Easton bar,  is open as well

Eddie George's Grill was suppose to open but does seem to be starting construction pretty soon

There's going to be a Happy Greek, the 2nd one after the one in the Short North

 

A Coldstone Creamery is under construction and some locally owned shops with names like Boutique, Picture It!, and Rave are opening.

 

 

some mall like Gaming Store

 

That's an EBGames. They closed the one in the City Center...

Well, besides the stores, how is it as a place to hang out, people watch, wander around?  What is the feel?