OSU restarts 2 construction projects that it paused due to Covid-19's economic effect

 

The two restarted projects are the Department of Theatre’s new building, which is part of the $162 million Arts District, as well as a revamped Controlled Environment Food Production Research Complex, which has had fits and starts over the last few years.

 

...

 

Restarting those two projects could be a sign that the university is recovering slightly from Covid-19.

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/20/covid-osu-construction-projects.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_10&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

West Campus natural gas power plant site prep and surrounding utility work (Thur. 11-19-20)

 

 

 

 

 

Frank Stanton Veterinary Spectrum of Care Clinic

 

Nationwide Children's breaks ground on $100M gene therapy factory, shares new rendering

 

 

The 185,000-square-foot facility is 100,000 square feet larger than initial estimates and has grown from a $74 million price tag. 

Until it's completed in mid-2022, the for-profit affiliate is leasing space inside the Columbus hospital's Wexner Research Institute. It's expected to add 200 jobs to a baseline of 100, about one-third more than earlier projections.

 

Crazy that it grew by 100,000 sq ft, but is a great thing. 

Edited November 25, 20204 yr by VintageLife

1 hour ago, VintageLife said:

Nationwide Children's breaks ground on $100M gene therapy factory, shares new rendering

 

 

The 185,000-square-foot facility is 100,000 square feet larger than initial estimates and has grown from a $74 million price tag. 

Until it's completed in mid-2022, the for-profit affiliate is leasing space inside the Columbus hospital's Wexner Research Institute. It's expected to add 200 jobs to a baseline of 100, about one-third more than earlier projections.

 

Crazy that it grew by 100,000 sq ft, but is a great thing. 

Great news.  It's gonna be a lot of fun watching the Innovation District area grow.

Edited November 25, 20204 yr by TH3BUDDHA

On 11/18/2020 at 12:02 PM, VintageLife said:

Six-Story Building Proposed for High Street Near OSU

 

this is the cousins/lucky’s site

 

More about this project from Business First:

 

Six-story building pitched at old Cousins Army-Navy site near campus

 

A developer wants to demolish the former Cousin's Army-Navy store and some smaller structures along High Street near the Ohio State University campus and put up a six-story building with a mix of residential and commercial space.

 

The current properties are from 1453 to 1475 N. High St. at the corner of 8th Avenue in the University District.  The plan is to put in 146 apartments, 1,300 square feet of commercial space and a 129-space parking garage.  The University Impact District Review Board heard the plan on a conceptual basis last week, which meant no action was taken. 

( . . . )

The market-rate project will target young professionals, though it could end up with some graduate students.  Some 80% of the apartments would be one-bedroom units; the rest would be two-bedroom units, averaging around 700 square feet in size in order to keep rents down, said Paul Pardi, principal at Avenue Partners.

 

Materials and colors of the building are still being studied, and the developer said it would have more details when it brings the project back for approval.  The University Area Commission and University Impact District Review Board must both green-light the project.

 

MORE:  https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/23/six-story-building-pitched-at-old-cousins-army-nav.html

 

Here's the building at 8th & High this project would be replacing (Cousin's Army-Navy store relocated further up the street a few years ago and now is at 2469 N. High Street in Old North Columbus)

14 minutes ago, Columbo said:

 

More about this project from Business First:

 

Six-story building pitched at old Cousins Army-Navy site near campus

 

A developer wants to demolish the former Cousin's Army-Navy store and some smaller structures along High Street near the Ohio State University campus and put up a six-story building with a mix of residential and commercial space.

 

The current properties are from 1453 to 1475 N. High St. at the corner of 8th Avenue in the University District.  The plan is to put in 146 apartments, 1,300 square feet of commercial space and a 129-space parking garage.  The University Impact District Review Board heard the plan on a conceptual basis last week, which meant no action was taken. 

( . . . )

The market-rate project will target young professionals, though it could end up with some graduate students.  Some 80% of the apartments would be one-bedroom units; the rest would be two-bedroom units, averaging around 700 square feet in size in order to keep rents down, said Paul Pardi, principal at Avenue Partners.

 

Materials and colors of the building are still being studied, and the developer said it would have more details when it brings the project back for approval.  The University Area Commission and University Impact District Review Board must both green-light the project.

 

MORE:  https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/11/23/six-story-building-pitched-at-old-cousins-army-nav.html

 

Here's the building at 8th & High this project would be replacing (Cousin's Army-Navy store relocated further up the street a few years ago and now is at 2469 N. High Street in Old North Columbus)

So it isn’t taking up the Lucky’s spot also? 

35 minutes ago, VintageLife said:

So it isn’t taking up the Lucky’s spot also? 

The six-story project would take up both the Army-Navy store site plus its parking lot at the corner of 8th & High and the one-story Lucky's spot at 1475 N. High Street.  Here's a Nov. 2019 streetview:

15th and High (Thur. 12-3-20)

 

 

You can (just barley) see progress on the public plaza just south of Building A

 

 

 

Timashev Family Music Building

 

 

 

 

Biomedical and Materials Engineering Complex

 

 

Postle Hall / College of Dentistry

 

 

 

Hamilton Hall / Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center

 

 

The "IKE" touch screen video boards are now in the University District (currently advertising some of Schottenstein's newer developments downtown)

 

Site of the proposed Six-story development at West 8th and High

Wow, what a clumsy connection between the new and old parts of Postle Hall. I thought they would at least redo the end/Neil Avenue elevation of the old building.

4 hours ago, NorthShore647 said:

Biomedical and Materials Engineering Complex

 

Looks like OSU repurposed the limestone sign from the old building on Woodruff.

 

 

 

New Skatepark, Other Improvements Planned for Tuttle Park

 

 

https://www.columbusunderground.com/new-skate-park-other-improvements-planned-for-tuttle-park-bw1

 

Site work/drilling seems to have resumed in earnest on the other half of the the new Arts District buildings (for the Department of Theater). Will be interesting to see them rearrange their construction staging so they can resume with the theater building footprint. 

 

This is particularly exciting because this new theater building unlocks the next steps of the Cannon Drive reconstruction (although it's been aggressively downsized) all the way up the Lane Ave (which will be phase 3). But the demo of Drake and reconstruction of the levee is now on the horizon. 

Destroy Drake!  Destroy Drake!

Are there long term plans for Arps Hall?

One of the Arts District cameras has gone offline because the crane it was mounted to has been disassembled, and is being reassembled for work on the Theater Building:

 

This seems like a strange crane location to me -- it's within the footprint of the theater building. I realize they wanted to keep it between the two buildings so both sites could utilize it, but I'm surprised it isn't outside the footprint when they could have easily done so (seemingly) 

^A lot of buildings have the crane located within the footprint. It's a long building and tower cranes only have so much reach.

 

 

4 hours ago, icheb42 said:

One of the Arts District cameras has gone offline because the crane it was mounted to has been disassembled, and is being reassembled for work on the Theater Building:

 

 

Notice the crane in the background in the middle of the pic? That used to be located at 14th and Pearl but a week or two ago it was disassembled and relocated the the tower crane base at 15th and Pearl.

Edited December 16, 20204 yr by Pablo

On 12/9/2020 at 7:51 PM, ColDayMan said:

Destroy Drake!  Destroy Drake!

 

I can see why it's unpopular after looking at a picture of it. I remember going to an event there in like 1987 and thinking the building was gross.

11-Story Development Proposed for Lane Avenue

 

A new proposal calls for demolishing the 12-story Harrison Apartments building at 222 W. Lane Ave. and replacing it with a new mixed-use building of a similar height but with a much larger footprint.

The proposed building would fill in the existing building’s large surface parking lot – which extends to Norwich Avenue to the north – and would be complemented by two smaller buildings on adjacent parcels, one five stories and the other six.

 

 

Well that would be quite the improvement!

12 minutes ago, cbussoccer said:

Well that would be quite the improvement!

Yeah I can’t see how this wouldn’t be approved. It’s a way better use for the space. 

Nice! I think I commented some time ago that the parking lot to the north of Harrison was ripe for development. Nice that the old tower is coming down. The Lane Ave. frontage is a mess. 
 

The north side of Lane from Neil to High is next. There are a lot of crappy apartment buildings reaching the end of their usefulness. 

2 hours ago, Pablo said:

Nice! I think I commented some time ago that the parking lot to the north of Harrison was ripe for development. Nice that the old tower is coming down. The Lane Ave. frontage is a mess. 
 

The north side of Lane from Neil to High is next. There are a lot of crappy apartment buildings reaching the end of their usefulness. 

 

They just updated the apartments in the past decade. Outside of that and tailgating this whole spot was ripe for redevelopment. You’re right though, the lot was the most glaring redevelopment spot. I had a few friends that lived there and the lot was rarely if ever full. 

My guess is that we'll wee 14th reopen sometime early next year... if not sooner. They're finishing the curbing and parking spots on the north side. I don't know if they'll finish the sidewalks or if they'll leave the construction fence at the roadway, but either way they'll have the south sidewalk and roadway open sometime soon-ish.

I didn’t get a photo (it was too dark), but the next building is underway at the southeast corner of 15th and High. Looked like the steel was up to the 3rd level. 

Moving right along. 15th Ave. appears to be open to westbound traffic. 
 

 

25 minutes ago, Pablo said:

Moving right along. 15th Ave. appears to be open to westbound traffic. 
 

 

 

Maybe I was high but damn did that thing go up quick.  I swear the week before Christmas there was no steel up for this when I drove past.

4 minutes ago, wpcc88 said:

Maybe I was high but damn did that thing go up quick.  I swear the week before Christmas there was no steel up for this when I drove past.

This definitely sprouted up very recently.

46 minutes ago, wpcc88 said:

 

Maybe I was high but damn did that thing go up quick.  I swear the week before Christmas there was no steel up for this when I drove past.

Pretty sure I drove by late last week and didn’t notice it. 

I concur. It popped up out of nowhere. But if I remember correctly, the foundation was laid for most of the buildings last summer so if it is a matter of putting up steel, we might see things move fast for additional buildings. 

 

My recollection is they dug and poured foundations for the whole block at one time. 

The West Campus Ambulatory Facility now has three tower cranes up after a third was added over the weekend. 

 

 

The third crane going up over the weekend (Sat. 1-9-21)

 

 

 

4 Cranes!

 

 

West Campus Interdisciplinary Research Facility

 

 

 

A lot of trees along Carmack and around Fred Beekman were cut down

 

 

 

West Campus Natural Gas Plant site prep

 

 

Natural gas pipeline work along John Herrick Drive

 

Frank Stanton Veterinary Spectrum of Care Clinic 

 

It's been a while since we had a good @NorthShore647 Columbus construction photo tour. Thanks again for the pics!

 

By my count, we are up to 13 tower cranes. Not bad, considering this is the opposite of peak construction season in the middle of a pandemic. 

15th and High "Building B1" (Fri. 1-8-21)

 

 

 

The Plaza / Square is taking Shape

 

 

 

15th has been reopened through the development to High for both vehicles and pedestrians 

 

 

 

Timashev Family Music Building

 

 

 

 

Hamilton Hall / Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center

 

 

The sidewalk is finally open along Neil in front of Postle Hall

 

 

6 minutes ago, NorthShore647 said:

 

 

I really like the way this building is turning out. 

1 hour ago, cbussoccer said:

 

I really like the way this building is turning out. 

Agree, I know a lot of people are hating campus for tearing down so much, but this building looks really good, and in 20 years will still look good. The WOSU building also looks good. 

I'll never understand the lamenting of 'another brick box'.  When done right, I'll take 100 well done brick boxes over just one Uncommon building any day. These will look timeless for many many years to come. 

 

There is a time and place for good modern architecture and they could have done that here and it would have been great but it had to be iconic modern and not copy paste modern that might not withstand the test of time. And for the investment, the brick box was the safer option. 

 

Re: cranes. The previous record that I can remember was 17 tower cranes I believe. This was at the peak of Short North expansion, North Campus residential, etc circa 2014/15/16 (?)  Wonder if we can see that record break this year. 

11 minutes ago, DTCL11 said:

I'll never understand the lamenting of 'another brick box'.  When done right, I'll take 100 well done brick boxes over just one Uncommon building any day. These will look timeless for many many years to come. 

 

There is a time and place for good modern architecture and they could have done that here and it would have been great but it had to be iconic modern and not copy paste modern that might not withstand the test of time. And for the investment, the brick box was the safer option. 

 

Re: cranes. The previous record that I can remember was 17 tower cranes I believe. This was at the peak of Short North expansion, North Campus residential, etc circa 2014/15/16 (?)  Wonder if we can see that record break this year. 

Now if we talk about that target building, I can understand haha. But these ones look great and I feel like the ones just to the west on campus will look just as good. 

1 hour ago, DTCL11 said:

I'll never understand the lamenting of 'another brick box'.  When done right, I'll take 100 well done brick boxes over just one Uncommon building any day. These will look timeless for many many years to come. 

 

There is a time and place for good modern architecture and they could have done that here and it would have been great but it had to be iconic modern and not copy paste modern that might not withstand the test of time. And for the investment, the brick box was the safer option. 

 

Re: cranes. The previous record that I can remember was 17 tower cranes I believe. This was at the peak of Short North expansion, North Campus residential, etc circa 2014/15/16 (?)  Wonder if we can see that record break this year. 

 

You were 1 or 2 off, we had 18-19 in '16-'17 in Central Ohio as a whole.

1 hour ago, DTCL11 said:

I'll never understand the lamenting of 'another brick box'.  When done right, I'll take 100 well done brick boxes over just one Uncommon building any day. These will look timeless for many many years to come. 

 

There is a time and place for good modern architecture and they could have done that here and it would have been great but it had to be iconic modern and not copy paste modern that might not withstand the test of time. And for the investment, the brick box was the safer option. 

 

Re: cranes. The previous record that I can remember was 17 tower cranes I believe. This was at the peak of Short North expansion, North Campus residential, etc circa 2014/15/16 (?)  Wonder if we can see that record break this year. 

 

 

 

I wonder where this place is and if it's still there. If it was in Columbus it would have been torn down by now.

 

 

7 hours ago, wpcc88 said:

 

You were 1 or 2 off, we had 18-19 in '16-'17 in Central Ohio as a whole.

I remember at one point, it might have been during that timeframe, we had 9-10 cranes just on High Street.

The view of Crane City from the Crew Stadium construction cam. 

 

52 minutes ago, cbussoccer said:

The view of Crane City from the Crew Stadium construction cam. 

 

At some point I really hope the peninsula looks like this :)

9 minutes ago, NightNectar said:

At some point I really hope the peninsula looks like this :)

 

That would be awesome, although they are well into construction on two buildings already without any tower cranes. We will see what happens with some of the other phase one buildings that have started yet.

The peninsula has plenty of room to maneuver for the first buildings. As it gets built out space will tighten up and you'll see a few tower cranes. Tower crane rental for a 6 story building is about $50K a month. 

16 minutes ago, Pablo said:

The peninsula has plenty of room to maneuver for the first buildings. As it gets built out space will tighten up and you'll see a few tower cranes. Tower crane rental for a 6 story building is about $50K a month. 

 

The IRF building is only 5 stories and has plenty of space, yet they are using a tower crane. When 250 High was built downtown a few years ago, they used a crawler crane even though they were building a 12 story building on a skinny lot. 

 

I would assume there's more to it than just the amount of space available. I'm guessing tower cranes provide much more efficiency during construction, allowing for a quicker build-out, while coming at a higher cost than crawler cranes.  

2 hours ago, NightNectar said:

At some point I really hope the peninsula looks like this :)

 

I would say you'll see this in Franklinton in general.  Also High Street and the square, 2020's will see a tower boom(finally for many of you) with the legislation signed by the Governor.

Steel is going up quickly for the second building at 15th & High.

 

Also I'm curious what they have planned for the double height space on the second floor facing High Street on this building - hopefully not just office space.

Hamilton Hall / Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center (Sun. 2-7-21)

 

 

The new courtyard west of Postle Hall has opened. You can also see the Hamilton Hall expansion on the right. 

 

 

Timashev Family Music Building

 

 

15th and High "Building B1"

 

 

 

 

From atop the recently opened Inpatient Hospital Parking Garage you can see the many cranes of West Campus. The 5 cranes currently along Kenny are joined by an additional crane at the West Campus Natural Gas Plant site (far right)

 

The crane at the West Campus Natural Gas Plant site in January