"The simplest way to determine what the market is for our product in any state is to take the population of the state and divide by the number of major college football powers there," Spillers said. "The population of Ohio is 20 million, and there’s one school."

 

I WISH!

From Business First of Columbus, 9/29/06:

 

 

As OSU closes in on projects, questions cutting deeply

Business First of Columbus - September 29, 2006

by Jeff Bell, Business First

 

Ohio State University Medical Center administrators are being asked for some firmer calculations on growth projections linked to the health-care complex's $780 million expansion plan.  The primary question: What would be the return on investment that the medical center expects to receive from facilities it is proposing to construct, including a new cancer hospital, critical-care patient tower and outpatient diagnostic/treatment building? The question was posed by Donald Shackelford, a member of the OSU board of trustees' Medical Affairs Committee, when the group met Sept. 22.

 

Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2006/10/02/story12.html

 

OSU completing athletics facilities puzzle with new softball stadium

Business First of Columbus - February 9, 2007

by Jeff Bell, Business First

 

Ohio State University's women's softball team is on the cusp of landing a home stadium that would match the Buckeyes' considerable on-field accomplishments.  OSU trustees Feb. 2 authorized construction of a $4.3 million softball stadium on the site of Buckeye Field, the team's current home.  Construction would begin at end of the team's season in June and be completed by March 2008.

 

The softball stadium is one of the final pieces of a facility puzzle started by former OSU Athletics Director Andy Geiger in the mid-1990s and continued by his successor, Gene Smith.  Geiger oversaw renovation of Ohio Stadium, as well as construction of the Jerome Schottenstein Center for basketball and hockey, Bill Davis Stadium for baseball, Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium for track, soccer and lacrosse and McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion for swimming and diving.

 

Full story at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2007/02/12/story10.html 

 

Go Bucks Softball!

I coach at the high school level during the Summer and Fall.  It's great to see the women at OSU get a decent share of the athletic $$$$ pie at OSU.  If its as nice as the baseball stadium, it ought to be very nice.

The Columbus University District has a new website, http://www.universitydistrict.org/.

 

The History Section is really interesting highlighting some of the business districts, historic distructs, ect; http://www.universitydistrict.org/districthistory.php.

Gracias!

From the 4/2/07 Dispatch:

 

PHOTO: Edwards Communities is working with Ohio State's Fisher College of Business to build apartments for MBA students at Kenny Road and Lane Avenue.  DORAL CHENOWETH III

 

CONSTRUCTION ZONE

OSU's MBA students get housing option

Monday, April 02, 2007

Mike Pramik

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

For the past four years, Columbus developer and Ohio State University graduate Pete Edwards has donated use of dozens of his companies' apartments to the Fisher College of Business.  The college uses the apartments, situated around the city, to recruit students. While that arrangement will end with the coming academic year, Edwards involvement with student housing will not.

 

Edwards Communities is building Fisher Commons, a 118-unit apartment complex designed for graduate business students at Fisher College.  Located at the southeast corner of Kenny Road and Lane Avenue, the apartments are a mile west of Fisher College, 2100 Neil Ave.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/04/02/20070402-E4-00.html

 

http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2007/04/02/daily26.html 

 

Ranking puts Fisher College 22nd best in nation

Business First of Columbus - 11:56 AM EDT Friday, April 6, 2007

 

Ohio State University has one of the best graduate programs for business in the nation, according to a U.S. News & World Report ranking.

 

The school's Fisher College of Business landed at No. 22 for the second year in a row in the publication's annual ranking of public and private business graduate programs...

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For a complete list of the rankings, visit usnews.com

 

 

wahoo for us!

Too many Ohio State threads. If there is a better place for it, please move.

 

AP:

 

 

Ohio State again is nation's largest university

10/16/2007, 12:12 p.m. EDT

The Associated Press

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University is the nation's largest public university for the second year in a row, new enrollment figures show.

 

The school's main campus in Columbus has 52,568 undergraduate, graduate and professional students this fall, 750 more than last year. University of Florida at Gainesville is second with 51,876 students, and Arizona State University at Tempe is the third with 51,481.

 

University officials credit most of the increase in enrollment to an increase in transfer students and higher first-year student retention levels. This year, the school projects just over 94 percent of first-year students will continue to their sophomore year, up from 78 percent a decade ago.

High Street gap may be filled with Kroger's razing, rebuild

Business First of Columbus

By Dan Eaton, Business First

Friday, April 25, 2008

 

Kroger Co. plans to demolish and rebuild its store south of OSU at North High Street and Seventh Avenue.  It plans to expand the store's size and offerings but, more importantly to area planners, the company will move the store closer to the street while adding more than 10,000 square feet of space for further development.  While Kroger has not committed to specific changes, a flower department, coffee shop, expanded deli, salad bar and eating area are among the possibilities.

 

The University Area Commission approved plans to build a two-story building on a vacant lot at North High Street and Euclid Avenue that will have street-level retail space and three apartments on the second floor. The Columbus Metropolitan Library branch at North High Street and McMillan Avenue needs more space and could be redeveloped on that site to fit the overlay, he said, while an abandoned gas station at North High Street and Fifth Avenue is vacant and presents another opportunity.

 

Area planners have advocated moving this Kroger closer

to High Street to give the corridor a more urban feel.

 

Read more at

http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/04/28/story2.html

There was some discussion about this "Urban Kroger Concept" over at the South Campus Gateway thread in the Ohio Business & Economy section:

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,9206.60.html. 

 

It also included a link to the site plan of this redevelopment concept (<A href="http://assets.columbus.gov/development/planning/WeinlandParkPlan.pdf">check out page 26 of this PDF</a>).

 

That is a rather large site.  I hope they consider an urban Kroger or something like that.

Uh. There's a Kroger just a few blocks south of this spot. It's been on the drawing board per the Weinland Park Development Plan (<A href="http://assets.columbus.gov/development/planning/WeinlandParkPlan.pdf">check out page 26 of this PDF</a>) for awhile and may actually happen fairly soon from some rumblings I've heard come out of University District neighborhood meetings.

 

 

 

These are already finished. How the leadership of a university would allow sprawl on their campus demonstrates a lack of a basic understanding when it comes to physics. When you burn oil it turns into heat and is gone forever, it cannot be reused. This simple fact is lost on university leadership.

 

OSU promotes sprawl

 

MBA students will be given priority to rent the apartments when they open in the summer, said Jim Miller, executive director of development and external affairs for the college.

 

A model and leasing center will open in April.

 

"The issue is being able to have another high-quality option for our students to consider in the available housing supply," Miller said. "We see a lot of our students living farther away from campus. This reduces commute times and gives a better opportunity to be part of the graduate program."

 

Oh, and here is Jim Miller's email in case you have any questions. [email protected]

 

edit: I'll grab a pic of the finished development since it's nowhere on the internet, but I have to find a good route since OSU made getting to west campus by bike a deadly affair.

Perhaps I'm missing something.  How is new apartment development within exisiting university boundries and within easy walking/biking distance of where these people will work/study  contributing to sprawl?

 

Now if they were housing their MBA students at Polaris, forcing them to make an I71 commute everyday, your point might have some validity.

 

 

How? Very easily. Whether the car-dependent/sprawling development is within, next to, or 30 miles from OSU it makes no difference. The characteristics are the same regardless of where you plop it. It is not within easy walking distance. Walking to the Fisher College of business from here will take a while, not to mention walking past a highway. It's a sprawling apartment complex right on campus.

 

I hate to say it, but this girl is doing the right thing here; this road is way too risky for bikes.

 

Notice all the cars there? You try biking from here down Lane Ave.

 

I would've taken close ups, but I wasn't about to risk crossing here. I was standing in the park across from the apartments which you can't even walk to because you'd risk your life.

 

So good to see OSU encouraging alternatives to driving.

 

I rode my bike over to get these pics and even taking side streets it was not a pleasant ride.

Is it a question of location or the style of building?

 

I imagine the road could be made more pedestrian friendly if the OSU wanted to do so.

The Kroger revamp plans are pretty awesome. Can't wait to see it all happen!

DeVere, Schottenstein developing $3.5M entry to South Campus

Business First of Columbus

By Brian R. Ball, Business First

Friday, May 2, 2008

 

Columbus builder DeVere Co. and multifamily housing developer Schottenstein Real Estate Group LLC hope to replicate a piece of the city's Short North in the southern reaches of the University District with a $3.5 million project.

 

Smith & High LLC, an affiliate put together by the development companies, has begun construction of a three-story complex at 1254-1260 N. High St. that will include 7,000 square feet for retailers and 12 apartments.  The redevelopment project sits near a 5,700-square-foot office building and adjoining laundromat north of East Fifth Avenue.

 

http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/highlights/2008/05/05/story4.html?ana=e_ph

 

Smith & High now:

 

 

What it's going to look like according to the rendering on the website

 

 

Next door, the York on High, formerly a Free Mason building.

 

Very cool project.

The continued development of the Short North is terrific.  I look forward to the day when it is truly a viable neighborhood from Campus all the way to downtown.  Then, all you will need is a streetcar to ice the cake :) (and connect the districts)

Sullivan Bruck, Davis Wince team up on OSU dorm expansion project

Business First of Columbus - by Brian R. Ball

Friday, October 10, 2008

 

Sullivan Bruck Architects Inc. hopes to create the feel of off-campus apartments into the first phase of Ohio State University’s expansion of its William H. Hall student housing complex on West Ninth Avenue in Columbus.  Sullivan Bruck and Davis Wince Ltd., an architecture firm in Powell, have a contract to serve as the design team for the $14.8 million project.

 

Sullivan Bruck principal Joe Sullivan said the project marks the firm’s first OSU project since it was founded 25 years ago.  But it fits with the firm’s experience designing urban apartment projects, he said.  Davis Wince has worked on many Ohio State projects, Sullivan said, with expertise on technical aspects of dorm projects, bid estimating and construction project administration.  As architect of record, Sullivan Bruck will focus on the exterior and shell design and preparing construction documents.

 

Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/10/13/newscolumn2.html

E 16th Ave. New fancy student housing.

 

 

New student union, from College Ave.

 

 

Thanks!

OSU's Lincoln Tower on hold; school slowing dorm push

Business First of Columbus - by Carrie Ghose

Friday, November 14, 2008 - 9:09 AM EST

 

Ohio State University has again slowed its schedule for renovating old dormitories and moving more students onto campus.  At the request of President Gordon Gee, housing officials are pausing three to six months before starting design and construction to convert Lincoln Tower back to housing from offices, which would add 684 beds, said Bill Schwartz, associate vice president for student affairs.

 

Lincoln is one of the first dominoes in a plan to add more housing so Gee can go forward with a plan to require sophomores as well as freshmen to live on campus.  But when the design contract came to trustees in September, they questioned whether the 1960s, daisy-shaped concrete monolith, which has a twin in Morrill Tower, will fit into the campus master plan.  "If we commit to that big Soviet-style building, we commit to it for a long time," Gee said.

 

Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/11/10/daily31.html

 

I really like the new dorms! I wonder if they are eqaul as nice on the inside.

An architectural digital imaging website that I check on regularly has Ohio State's Knowlton School of Architecture Building as its December feature at http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index2.html. 

 

Direct link: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/columbus/scoginelam/intro.html

 

 

Views of the West Facade: 16 images

 

 

Views of the South Facade: 15 images

 

 

Views of the East Facade: 13 images

 

 

Views of the North Facade: 19 images

 

 

Views of the Interior: 2 pages--25 images

 

 

 

"I've got these gigantic surfaces to deal with and I already used up my window budget on the atrium.  What can I do?"

 

"Can you think of any material that looks like vinyl siding?"

 

"Sure, and it comes in Depressing Grey #5."

 

"Well, slather it all over the building and let's get lunch.  Sometimes I think you want things to be difficult."

^ That says it all. We can end this thread now.

All architecture schools try too hard to look like architecture schools.

Well...it's...Knowlton...

On my college visit there... the first reason I decided not to apply to OSU was because I couldn't imagine myself learning in this uncomfortable concrete building. Not a learning environment at all... everything is unfinished, concrete, metal... aweful.

There were several other reasons, only one more pertaining to the Knowlton School of Architecture, and that being that the professor I talked to had NOO enthusiasm for the school, architecture, or success.

Well he's a professor, it's not his job to sell the school to you. I talked to the director, he was really enthusiastic.

 

Don't worry about your building - it's not going to make you any more or less successful. IMO it's a really petty thing to dwell on. Every university has its ugly buildings. Whether or not you're successful depends on your own vision for your own future.

If I am on a scheduled honors day visit, and he is my session leader for the Knowlton SoA, I would imagine that OSU probably wanted him to sell the school in one way or another... to at least get my $40 application fee, lol.

 

I'm not worried about a building affecting my success, not at all. I just know that I would not want to learn in THAT particular building. I felt so uncomfortable... kind of like I was in a parking garage with walls on wheels and rollie chairs.

Honestly, that's probably one of the better architecture building in the country.

those are good pics, and i like some elements of the exterior but when i visited osu to check out the planning program i really didn't like the interior, it was so cold and hard to use and uninteresting. i did like the library but that was about it.

Honestly, that's probably one of the better architecture building in the country.

 

I'd take OSU architecture school and move it to U of M any day.  We'd love to have it.  I've been in there three times now and love it more on every visit.  Our architecture school is kind of ugly and dated. 

You go to U of M as in Memphis?

My sister is in grad school there.

No, THE U of M!

I'd take OSU architecture school and move it to U of M any day.  We'd love to have it.  I've been in there three times now and love it more on every visit.  Our architecture school is kind of ugly and dated.

 

ColDayMan has been wearing you down hasn't he?  Don't let him do it...this building sucks.  Like David said, most architecture schools try to hard to look like architecture schools.  KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

Holiday Inn might become OSU dorm

Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 3:02 AM

By Mike Pramik

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

The Holiday Inn on the Lane, a popular Ohio State University-area hotel, could be converted to student housing if a pending purchase comes to fruition.  Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment, the university's nonprofit development arm, expects to sign a letter of intent this month to buy the Holiday Inn from out-of-town owner Harper Hotels Inc. for $19 million, Campus Partners interim President Doug Aschenbach said yesterday.  If the deal is approved, the hotel could be in Campus Partners' hands by the end of March.  "Since this property is off campus, it falls within our realm of oversight," he said. 

 

But because the university is scratching for student housing, the most likely plan is to convert the hotel to dorm use.  OSU has begun a $250 million student-housing-improvement plan, and upgrading several residential towers on south campus would create the need for at least temporary space.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/20/Holiday_Inn_sale.ART_ART_12-20-08_C10_LEC9NV8.html?sid=101

 

Architecture asside, it's still a very up to date facility.  U of M's was constructed in the late 60's I think.  It feels like a cross between A Sam's Club, a Toronto Subway Station, and maybe an elementary school.  Bright orange and blue painted cmu block walls.  Very low dark ceilings made of metal grating with wonderful fluorescent lighting.  For the art students, lockers everywhere, just like a school!  U of M's arch school has the potential to be really nice after a massive renovation.  The studio spaces and the recently renovated courtyard are really the only major selling points of the building.  It has the largest contiguous studio floorspace of any architecture school in the world.

UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SURVEY

Landlords hurt if sophomores stay in dorms

Gee's proposal for OSU isn't likely for several years, spokesman says

Friday, December 26, 2008

By Bill Bush, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

The University District would suffer from decay and lower property values if a proposal to force Ohio State University sophomores to live on campus is carried out, according to a $28,000 study commissioned by landlords who own thousands of apartments in the area.  The area's apartment-occupancy rate - now a stunning 99.4 percent - could drop to less than 80 percent if there were enough space on campus to house the 3,000 sophomores now living in private housing, according to the study by VWB Research.

 

"A 20 percent vacancy rate - that is substantial," and could lead to a general deterioration of the neighborhoods surrounding the campus, said William P. Graver Jr., vice president of Buckeye Real Estate, which owns about 1,100 apartment units around Ohio State.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/12/26/campus.ART_ART_12-26-08_C1_ALCBGTN.html?sid=101

 

Wow. You'd think they would build more dorms with such a high occupancy rate. Thats astonishing.

Ohio State's eye beholden to Aveda Institute property

Business First of Columbus - by Carrie Ghose

Monday, January 26, 2009, 8:00am

 

Ohio State University is hoping to beautify its master plan by buying the home of a cosmetology school just off the southwest edge of campus.  The university has a contract to buy three parcels at Neil and 10th avenues in Columbus for $3.1 million, but that's no guarantee it can close the deal, said Tom Tearney, senior director of planning and real estate.  The school needs state approval for the purchase, and other potential buyers could arise.

 

 

Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/01/26/story3.html?b=1232946000%5E1766442

In addition to Business First (posted above), the Dispatch printed an "OSU hoping to acquire Aveda Institute property" story as well.  The Dispatch included a location map showing the proximity of the Aveda site to the south medical campus.

 

 

 

Next door, the York on High, formerly a Free Mason building.

 

 

I wonder what they sell at that "Signage" place.

Holiday Inn to become 480-bed OSU dormitory

Tuesday,  February 10, 2009 - 3:03 AM

By Mike Pramik, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

Ohio State University's community development arm has reached a tentative deal to buy Holiday Inn on the Lane and close the campus-area hotel on March 31.  Harper Hotels Inc. would receive $19 million from Campus Partners for the 243-room hotel, which the university wants to use as student housing.  Campus Partners is scheduled to complete due diligence on the transaction by Feb. 27.  If it decides then to proceed with the purchase, the deal would close at the end of March, said Doug Aschenbach, interim president of the development group.

 

Campus Partners plans to spend $4 million to $6 million to convert the hotel into a 480-bed dorm.  Aschenbach said it's possible the dorm will be ready by fall quarter.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/02/10/Holiday_Inn_on_the_Lane.ART_ART_02-10-09_C10_HHCRO2F.html?sid=101

 

 

$200 million approved for campus housing

Tanesha Washington, OSU Lantern

Issue date: 2/12/09

 

All systems are go on the Ohio State Office of Student Life plan to invest $200 million in campus housing improvements.  Recent surveys of incoming students show that quality of residence halls is very important, but they give Ohio State's residence facilities lower marks compared to other Big Ten schools.  Ohio State is ready to change that.

 

"We have hired Sasaki Associates to do a very comprehensive study and plan for the entire campus," said William Schwartz, associate vice president of the Office of Student Life.  "They are looking at almost everything: the Medical Center, athletics and recreation, housing and even High Street.  It's a really exciting study."

 

Read more at

http://www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2009/02/12/Campus/200-Million.Approved.For.Housing-3625108.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition