October 11, 20204 yr Here's two quick pictures I took of the progress at the corner of High and 16th: Edited October 11, 20204 yr by Dblcut3
October 11, 20204 yr 12 hours ago, cbussoccer said: So much erecting! What is this third one for? I can’t keep all of OSU’s projects straight. There’s too many! That’s the Interdisciplinary Research Facility at Lane and Kenny. Might see another one further west on Lane if that project at North Star gets going.
October 12, 20204 yr Optometry Clinic (Sun. 10-11-20) Postle Hall Music Building 15th and High Building A WOSU Building The West Campus Outpatient Care building and the Interdisciplinary Research Facility cranes. This is from the Woody Hayes Drive bridge, but you can see the northern Interdisciplinary Research Facility Crane from east of Fisher. It really helps show how big West Campus is. All three from the Carmack 5 Work finishing up at the courtyard outside Rightmire/Bevis Halls
October 14, 20204 yr New music building from High St (peeking above the Wexner scaffolding): View from the S entrance of Arps: View down Pearl Alley at Building A (with WOSU in the background; future hotel will be to the left in the foreground): Another view of building A showing both styles of brick:
October 15, 20204 yr Are they going to start constructing the other buildings on this site right after this one (Building A) is done? Edited October 15, 20204 yr by Dblcut3
October 15, 20204 yr Love! the photo updates! This goes for any projects in the city. Nothing better than this type of update! This goes to anyone providing these type of updates...Thanks!!! they are very much appreciated-especially by me since I have to limit my going out right now.
October 15, 20204 yr 9 hours ago, Dblcut3 said: Are they going to start constructing the other buildings on this site right after this one (Building A) is done? The last update I saw was from April saying that construction on Building B1 was put on hold due to COVID. I haven't heard anything since, so I'd assume that's still the case.
October 16, 20204 yr I also wonder if they're holding on the plaza as well-- that could theoretically start construction in tandem with this building A and open prior to the hotel building or building B even starting. I've asked this [to the ether] before, but I can't expect they'll keep 14th closed past when WOSU is substantially finished? There's no reason to, they can move their construction gate and allow actual traffic through, I would think. I assume 15th will remain closed until they've finished building B, I suppose, and Pearl Alley will certainly remain closed... But if they're putting things on hold there is really no reason to keep the street grid and a massive construction footprint that interrupts access to off-campus housing longer than absolutely necessary...
October 30, 20204 yr Nationwide Children's to begin $74M gene therapy affiliate lab construction in November Nationwide Children's Hospital plans to break ground next month on its $74 million gene therapy manufacturing affiliate on Ohio State University's west campus. Andelyn Biosciences Inc., a commercial-scale biotechnology manufacturing facility for genetic material used in research and clinical trials, eventually would employ more than 200 – with salaries from $69,000 to $280,000 yearly – on 8 acres at Lane Avenue and Carmack Road. Until the 85,000-square-foot facility is completed in mid-2022, the for-profit affiliate is leasing space inside the Columbus hospital's Wexner Research Institute. Article here: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/10/30/nationwide-childrens-gene-therapy-construction.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_10&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s Edited October 30, 20204 yr by TH3BUDDHA
November 4, 20204 yr New video banner highlighting the new Med Center garage, 15th & High and the West Campus Ambulatory site: https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/sites/default/files/banner-images/help_btf_banner_2_again_1029a1.mp4
November 4, 20204 yr 5 minutes ago, jebleprls22 said: New video banner highlighting the new Med Center garage, 15th & High and the West Campus Ambulatory site: https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/sites/default/files/banner-images/help_btf_banner_2_again_1029a1.mp4 Is that a little amphitheater area on the medical campus?
November 4, 20204 yr 8 minutes ago, VintageLife said: Is that a little amphitheater area on the medical campus? No, it's a stormwater detention basin.
November 4, 20204 yr 22 minutes ago, .justin said: No, it's a stormwater detention basin. Ah that makes sense, it had levels so I was confused. Thank you
November 5, 20204 yr New construction camera for the Interdisciplinary Research Building 1: https://buildingthefuture.osu.edu/projects/interdisciplinary-research-facility
November 6, 20204 yr OSU Construction Update: Arts District, Hospital Tower and More Despite the wide array of challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic – both financial and otherwise – construction crews have been busy on the campus of Ohio State University throughout 2020. Here’s the latest on some of the most significant projects, ranging from the almost-complete to the just-getting-started. Full list below: https://www.columbusunderground.com/osu-construction-update-arts-district-hospital-tower-and-more-bw1 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 6, 20204 yr Engineering application files with the city to build a "multi-story building" at 1475 N High St. This lot sits directly across High from Highline at Nine and is currently home to Lucky's bar. Unsure how Lucky's fits into the plan but I anticipate seeing something pop up on the UARB agenda in the next month or two. https://www.google.com/maps/place/1475+N+High+St,+Columbus,+OH+43201/@39.9922863,-83.0065146,3a,60y,298.91h,88.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEUmKW9wHRuBtdO0kiObE8g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x88388ec6f428236f:0xb9960c90ed4cc1b0!8m2!3d39.9923405!4d-83.0067829
November 7, 20204 yr 1 hour ago, DevolsDance said: Engineering application files with the city to build a "multi-story building" at 1475 N High St. This lot sits directly across High from Highline at Nine and is currently home to Lucky's bar. Unsure how Lucky's fits into the plan but I anticipate seeing something pop up on the UARB agenda in the next month or two. https://www.google.com/maps/place/1475+N+High+St,+Columbus,+OH+43201/@39.9922863,-83.0065146,3a,60y,298.91h,88.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEUmKW9wHRuBtdO0kiObE8g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x88388ec6f428236f:0xb9960c90ed4cc1b0!8m2!3d39.9923405!4d-83.0067829 Seems weird that it wouldn’t just be the cousins army building.
November 7, 20204 yr 20 hours ago, ColDayMan said: OSU Construction Update: Arts District, Hospital Tower and More Despite the wide array of challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic – both financial and otherwise – construction crews have been busy on the campus of Ohio State University throughout 2020. Here’s the latest on some of the most significant projects, ranging from the almost-complete to the just-getting-started. Full list below: https://www.columbusunderground.com/osu-construction-update-arts-district-hospital-tower-and-more-bw1 Good to read that the public plaza is supposed to open along with this building A. I noticed the sitework being done in the new bird's eye video OSU posted.
November 9, 20204 yr Frank Stanton Veterinary Spectrum of Care Clinic (Sat. 11-7-20) Brickwork starting on the Music Building The sidewalk has finally returned in front of the Optometry Clinic
November 9, 20204 yr I wonder how many jobs OSU is adding with all this new development. Anybody have any guesses?
November 9, 20204 yr 21 minutes ago, 614love said: I wonder how many jobs OSU is adding with all this new development. Anybody have any guesses? The new hospital tower alone was reported to be creating 1800 new jobs plus construction jobs. Add in the Innovation District, other medical buildings, and all of the other various projects, and you're looking at thousands over the next 5-10 years. Many of these are going to be very high paying jobs.
November 10, 20204 yr ^I'm particularly excited about the Innovation District. The area is already a bit of an incubator with EWI and the State of Ohio Computer Center on the northwest quadrant of Lane Ave. and North Star. I'm particularly interested in the new, Nationwide Children's gene therapy lab slated to go there. Hopefully this results in the continued push for high-density development in Upper Arlington, Grandview Heights, and along 315.
November 11, 20204 yr I know there were previously comments about the façade of the new Fontana Lab building not quite matching the renderings -- I think this pic from OSU FOD's twitter shows the final form the best. Looking slick!
November 12, 20204 yr Was there ever anything announced for the site east of Kenny across from the Innovation District? I don't recall, but drove by today and the site is fenced off and there is work going on.
November 12, 20204 yr ^My understanding is that's the construction yard for the OSU power plant project.
November 13, 20204 yr On 11/11/2020 at 9:27 PM, TH3BUDDHA said: the site east of Kenny across from the Innovation District On 11/12/2020 at 8:14 AM, Pablo said: ^My understanding is that's the construction yard for the OSU power plant project. The former corn field in question (Tues. 11-10-20) Interdisciplinary Research Facility The OSU skyline behind the West Campus Outpatient Care building
November 16, 20204 yr WOSU is quickly wrapping up. Pearl Alley is being re-constructed adjacent (we'll see if they finish the north edge of 14th and end up opening that street).
November 16, 20204 yr OSU to spend $2M on new pavilion, plaza outside Blackwell Inn OSU will transform the current plaza at the Blackwell, which is 13,500 square feet with a concrete slab, into a “new pavilion and plaza.” More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/16/blackwell-inn-hotel-plaza-pavilion.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 17, 20204 yr 3 hours ago, ColDayMan said: OSU to spend $2M on new pavilion, plaza outside Blackwell Inn OSU will transform the current plaza at the Blackwell, which is 13,500 square feet with a concrete slab, into a “new pavilion and plaza.” More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/16/blackwell-inn-hotel-plaza-pavilion.html They can build this but not save the ice cores at the Byrd freezer.
November 17, 20204 yr From this week's Master Planning Committee meeting, our first look (?) at the second phase of the Cannon Drive realignment, currently set to begin construction in May 2023:
November 17, 20204 yr 5 minutes ago, Pablo said: ^Looks like this project eliminates Drake Union. I have heard talk about eliminating it for decades. Maybe we will get lucky and they will remove the ugly twins that straddle it.
November 17, 20204 yr 1 hour ago, Pablo said: ^Looks like this project eliminates Drake Union. I imagine this is probably why it's not starting until 2023. The Department of Theatre can't move out of the Drake until the new Theatre Building is completed, which is still on a COVID-induced hold.
November 17, 20204 yr Campus has been one giant construction project since somewhere around my sophomore or junior year there (2001-2002), and yet Drake still stands?! Wonders never cease.
November 17, 20204 yr NOT CATFISH BIFF'S!!! May they go straight to Hell!!! DIE SLOW DEATHS!!! OSU considers $1M deal to buy building home to popular campus-area restaurant OSU is considering purchasing the building at 75 W. 11th Avenue that home to Catfish Biff's pizza and subs restaurant. According to the university, the 1,772-square-foot building on 0.06 acres of land is “the last piece of property on West 11th Avenue that Ohio State does not own.” More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/17/osu-purchase-catfish-biffs.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 17, 20204 yr Noooooooo. Catfish is my favorite campus pizza. I lived in the south dorms freshmen year then a block over on 10th for the next 3 years. Can't even imagine how much money I spent at Catfish during those 4 years. Thankfully I got to have a couple slices when I came up for a football game last year. Hopefully they'll re-open somewhere else when OSU inevitably buys the building.
November 18, 20204 yr 5 hours ago, Gramarye said: Campus has been one giant construction project since somewhere around my sophomore or junior year there (2001-2002), and yet Drake still stands?! Wonders never cease. That’s Wexner’s influence. The never ending construction started when I was in school with the Wexner Center for the Arts (completed 1989). It’s on steroids now with the hospital and west campus projects.
November 18, 20204 yr Six-Story Building Proposed for High Street Near OSU this is the cousins/lucky’s site I think it needs to be a few stories taller. If it is going to replace a really busy bar, it needs to make up for that by being bigger, IMO. Edited November 18, 20204 yr by VintageLife added text
November 18, 20204 yr All my mainstay bars keep going away when I was a student. Its sad, but understandable.
November 18, 20204 yr On 11/17/2020 at 9:59 AM, icheb42 said: From this week's Master Planning Committee meeting, our first look (?) at the second phase of the Cannon Drive realignment, currently set to begin construction in May 2023: This looks like this is the first phase of it... I thought the plan was to put the new Cannon Drive on top of the levee (like it is by the Med Center), freeing additional space on the campus side. I'll have to review the meeting minutes to see if that is the case...
November 18, 20204 yr 24 minutes ago, jebleprls22 said: This looks like this is the first phase of it... I thought the plan was to put the new Cannon Drive on top of the levee (like it is by the Med Center), freeing additional space on the campus side. I'll have to review the meeting minutes to see if that is the case... I thought that was the case as well, so I was surprised to see that it looks like the only changes being made are the demolition of the Drake and rerouting the northernmost part of Cannon from east of the northwest stadium lot to the west. The meeting minutes list this as the project scope: Rebuild Cannon Drive between John Herrick Drive and Woody Hayes Drive at its current elevation and construct a certified ODNR flood protection levee Straighten the northern end of Cannon by eliminating the S-curve and creating a new signalized intersection at the east end of the river bridge Construct a bus pull off at the southeast corner of Herrick and Cannon Drives for the new hospital tower Project scope also includes the continued expansion of the river park
November 18, 20204 yr 54 minutes ago, jebleprls22 said: This looks like this is the first phase of it... I thought the plan was to put the new Cannon Drive on top of the levee (like it is by the Med Center), freeing additional space on the campus side. I'll have to review the meeting minutes to see if that is the case... Business First had a comment about this: This next phase will straighten the northern end of Cannon and build a levee between the road and the Olentangy River for 500-year flood protection. It also expands parkland into the river, which runs narrower and deeper since a dam removal downstream. ... University officials earlier had estimated the second phase would cost $120 million. The new plan scales it back, a spokesman said. The project no longer will include a new connector street along the south side of the stadium, and adds the levee instead of raising the Cannon roadbed. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/17/ohio-state-to-ok-cannon-drive-phase-2.html
November 18, 20204 yr 23 minutes ago, icheb42 said: I thought that was the case as well, so I was surprised to see that it looks like the only changes being made are the demolition of the Drake and rerouting the northernmost part of Cannon from east of the northwest stadium lot to the west. The meeting minutes list this as the project scope: Rebuild Cannon Drive between John Herrick Drive and Woody Hayes Drive at its current elevation and construct a certified ODNR flood protection levee Straighten the northern end of Cannon by eliminating the S-curve and creating a new signalized intersection at the east end of the river bridge Construct a bus pull off at the southeast corner of Herrick and Cannon Drives for the new hospital tower Project scope also includes the continued expansion of the river park Thanks! I was just reading that in the report. I'm sure they found the cost to be prohibitive and unnecessary considering the tightness of the space (unlike the ample space they had at the Med Center and being able to keep "Old Cannon" open during the entirety of the construction). So long as the plan is to still extend Cannon to Lane (phase 3) then it will still have accomplished/improved upon maneuverability for the Med Center and beyond.
November 18, 20204 yr 14 minutes ago, TH3BUDDHA said: Business First had a comment about this: This next phase will straighten the northern end of Cannon and build a levee between the road and the Olentangy River for 500-year flood protection. It also expands parkland into the river, which runs narrower and deeper since a dam removal downstream. ... University officials earlier had estimated the second phase would cost $120 million. The new plan scales it back, a spokesman said. The project no longer will include a new connector street along the south side of the stadium, and adds the levee instead of raising the Cannon roadbed. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/17/ohio-state-to-ok-cannon-drive-phase-2.html "Design will continue through 2022 with construction (including any demolition) to begin in 2023." Basically meaning the demolition of the Drake, which has to wait until the new Theater building on College Rd is completed. That's probably the biggest area where the current levee is "compromised" and requires reconstruction. This will also be the... fourth re-configuration of the intersection at Cannon/John Herrick in about 6 years. That parking lot next to the Central Chiller Plant (and just before that building existed) has existed, expanded, and shrunk handful of times just since I was a resident at Lincoln House in 2011-2012 🤣. I wonder if that new bus stop makes the large one by the Aquatic Center redundant? John Herrick has become a real bus thoroughfare in the last several years Edited November 18, 20204 yr by jebleprls22 Added info
November 18, 20204 yr We also got a couple photo updates on the Hamilton Hall renovation/expansion, including a new construction camera angle. I wonder if that means that demolition of the east wings of Starling-Loving Hall may be imminent...
November 18, 20204 yr 30 minutes ago, jebleprls22 said: I wonder if that new bus stop makes the large one by the Aquatic Center redundant? I would assume that the new stop will only be used by the medical center routes (Med Center Express, Ackerman Shuttle, Morehouse to Med Center Shuttle), while the Herrick Drive Transit Hub will still be used by the "academic" routes (CLN/CSL/WC/etc).
November 18, 20204 yr OSU seeks approval to build $36.7M innovation center Provided that the Board of Trustees approves the project this week, construction will start in June 2021. The facility would be slated to open in May 2023. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/18/osu-seeks-approval-for-construction-of.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
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