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I asked around this weekend as to why Journey has made a comeback and somebody told me it was on an episode of Family Guy and something else at roughly the same time.

 

In addition to Family Guy, "Don't Stop Believing" was featured prominently in the conclusion of The Sopranos, as well as in a Hillary Clinton campaign announcement parodying the Sopranos. The plot thickens.

 

But what do I know: I'm just a suburb boy, born and raised north of Detroit.

 

 

Some dynamite reporting by Mr. Geraci of The Lantern.  His scoop on this nursing student is so huge he didn't even need to get any other sources or quotes.  What's amazing is a week later tons of people still don't know about this incident.  Why?  Primarily because no visual came out of it.  Had the shooting happened out in the mall section of the development and not in a stairwell in the parking garage, there would have been dramatic visuals.  Had the victim been an OSU student, it would have been bigger news.  Had it happened during the school year it would have been much bigger news.  This incident really is a study in the caprices of circumstance and how big of a news story can be made.   

 

Holiday results in death of one

Man shot, killed in south campus gateway after fireworks

Anthony Geraci

Issue date: 7/10/07 Section: Campus

 

 

Adrienne Payawal took extra precautions the night of Columbus' annual fireworks display. Payawal, a senior in nursing and South Campus Gateway resident, said she knew there would be large crowds throughout the night because of Red, White & BOOM!

 

After the smoke cleared from the downtown fireworks and campus crowds dispersed, one man had been killed in the South Campus Gateway garage.

 

According to the Columbus Division of Police, Todd Lockett, 21, suffered a gunshot wound to the head in the parking garage at approximately 2:30 a.m. July 4. Lockett was taken to the OSU Medical Center where he died from his injuries.

 

Dante Jones, 22, of 2068 Woodland Ave., was later charged with one count of murder.

 

Thursday, Jones' bail was set at $1 million, according to the Franklin County clerk of courts office. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Friday.

 

Payawal, who works at OSU hospitals, decided to drive to work on the night of July 3 to avoid the excessive amounts of drunken people in the Gateway.

 

"I knew it was going to be a crazy night," Payawal said.

 

Payawal added that there were more people than usual in the Gateway when she parked her car at 11:45 p.m. in the garage where the shooting occurred.

 

Later in the night, however, Payawal said her roommate thought she heard fireworks from their apartment, but the next day realized they were, in fact, the gunshots.

 

Despite what happened, Payawal said she was realistic about the area around her apartment before she moved in. She said she knew it was going to be loud and crowded, but she did not expect violence.

 

"I don't necessarily feel unsafe," Payawal said. She also said she sees security officers all the time in the parking garage, outside and even sometimes in her building.

 

"I am hoping this is just an instance because of Red, White & BOOM!" she said.

 

The security staff for the Gateway was unable to comment on the shooting or the security in place that night.

 

Anthony Geraci can be reached at [email protected].

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My internet went out at the house mid-post a day or two ago, I know you've all been waiting for my response so here it is:

 

 

>but all is not lost there are documentaries. for example, there is a dvd of the making of born to run that is fascinating in parts.

 

Sure, there are true music documentaries out there, but people are much more into the poppy documentaries made by VH-1 and so on which never get into details about how musicians actually came up with the music, lyrics, or how it was recorded.  Luckily youtube is now full of them.  There is also a cable channel called Ovation which is something like channel #220 in my area which has good music, art, and other cultural documentaries on it all the time.  In fact I was watching it recently when they aired a fantastic Chuck Berry documentary and a group of people who were friends with a roommate came back from a bar and blurted out "who's that black dude on stage" and then when he played Johnny B. Goode "Oh, he plays the Marty McFly song".  Then there was a break from the live concert where he showed of his cars and suddenly eyes and ears perked up as if we were watching an episode of that MTV car show when this thing was made in 1987 or 1988.  The younger generations, white and black, seem to have a complete ignorance of the blues and early rock & roll.  I saw Chuck D speak in 2001 about two weeks after the so-called riot in Cincinnati and I got pretty worked up because he was repeating rumors for his own benefit about the incident (it's not as if he was there, and I wasn't either) but one of the interesting things he talked about (and really I didn't think he was an exceptional speaker and what I just said and what I'm about to say are the only two points I remember from the talk) was that due to the rise of rap black youth today are completely unaware of the blues, etc., and actively make fun of guitar playing.  In fact the culture at large is now making fun of guitar playing through air guitar competitions and the Guitar Hero video game.  This whole phrase “party like a rock star” appeared but I don’t think any of those people really grasp what that means.   

 

The big, towering, fundamental difference between pop music now and what it was 50 years ago (and there has been a steady slide in this direction) is that vernacular music used to function as a respite from the endless physical toil of agrarian and industrial life.  Instead now since so few American kids and young adults have any idea what tough physical work is the music and pop culture itself exists as a way for people to pretend to experience “real” things.  Rappers and blacks in general are continually presented by pop culture as “real”, whites as having had it easy, and therein lies the hook by which the large white audience for rap has been cultivated.  What's really bad is that I think a lot of white kids are growing up thinking their voice has no audience and so don't even attempt to get involved in music.       

 

 

>as for mtv, they were racist in the extreme and had to be dragged late into the rap era kicking and screaming. yo was a hit and rawk was on its deathbed so of course it had to stopped. thus grunge. didnt work.

 

Well MTV has always kept country off its airwaves too, despite it being the #1 selling music genre.  MTV never played jazz, blues, bluegrass, zydeco, opera, musicals, etc., etc.   

 

But even into the mid-90’s non-hair and non-alternative rock music was played on MTV, specifically The Rolling Stones “Love is Strong” off of Voodoo lounge got heavy airplay as did The Black Crowes’ “Remedy”, a killer song whose video has unfortunately been removed from youtube or else I'd post it here.  Aerosmith’s corny stuff from the Get A Grip album got tons of play.  Marilyn Manson, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, etc., weren’t “alternative”. 

 

Really I think the breakup of Guns ‘n’ Roses was the primary reason so-called alternative music was able to rise.  GNR was pretty much the biggest rock band since the Rolling Stones.  Their first record sold over 20 million copies and they are now approaching 100 million in total record sales, numbers way beyond that of any individual rapper, despite not having some big media machine running nostalgic documentaries on them (I mean, this entire young generation is growing up with unrelenting documentaries airing on Notorious BIG and 2Pac).  As illustrated by wimpy bands such as Weezer, record companies would much rather deal with nerds and dorks than deal with guys like Axl Rose who really would kick your ass or Ozzy who would bite the head off a bird in front of your face.       

 

But getting back to that Chuck Berry documentary, it closes with him playing an improvised lap steel bit in an empty theater with the lights fairly low.  The gear for the whole band is stacked around and the camera is behind him as the credits run.  It was totally fantastic and one of those times where I literally almost start crying over all that's been thrown out and paved over.  This country has invented dozens of instruments and music genres, written thousands of fantastic songs, and look at what the kids are growing up around.  Carson Daley and songs about gaudy jewelry. 

Let's stick to the topic please. This photo thread is already five pages long.

From U Weekly:

 

 

Crime kept quiet

[1 Comment(s)]

 

By David Derby

 

I’d like to start off by sharing what a sad realization I just had. I was trying to do a bit of quick research for this article, to make myself sound at least a little bit credible, and it was quite a struggle. Going into it, I figured I could hop on Google or Ohio State’s website and find some facts and figures or at least news about some of the crime that has occurred near the campus area, specifically at the South Campus Gateway. But after 30 minutes I couldn’t find a thing. Not even on the Lantern website. So I gave up. I realized it was just more fuel for this article.

 

Let me paint a little picture for you. It was early morning on July 4, and my friends and I were coming home from a night of drinking at the Gateway. We were walking a friend of ours home through the parking garage at about 2:15 a.m. As my friend and I were walking home, we noticed a few cop cars speeding past us and didn’t think anything of it. Later, I found out that someone was shot and killed in the parking garage, just 15 minutes after we had walked through it. Had we been 15 minutes later, we could have been witness to a murder. Did you hear about this? I wouldn’t have if I wasn’t such a loyal reader of Corey Spring’s blog on the UWeekly web site. UWeekly even had pictures posted.

 

I don’t know about you, but when I go out on the weekends to the Gateway, I look over my shoulder. I make sure I’m never alone and always in a group of people (mind you, I am a 5’10” 180 lb. male; not a 115 lb. 5’4” female like many bar-goers). We’ve all heard the stories. Most of us know someone who has been mugged or assaulted off of High Street, at least a friend of a friend. Some of us, unfortunately, have probably even been victims of such violence or crime.

 

So why does this kind of behavior still occur? Well, first let’s start with lack of exposure and awareness. People lose sight of what is important. I try and avoid the evening news as much as possible, because all they report is the bad and sensationalized stories. But where did I find out about the latest kidnapping, or at least supposed kidnapping that occurred near the Gateway (I couldn’t find any information on this story)? On the local news station.

 

Apparently a volunteer summer basketball coach was kidnapped outside of Eddie George’s Grill, no more than a week ago. Don’t ask me if he was found or not, because there is no info out there to be found. So what I want to know is why the University doesn’t have something students can check to get the latest safety information, good or bad. Shouldn’t we be made aware of crime issues that are occurring just off campus at a highly promoted student hot spot? If there is such a service, it’s a well-kept secret.

 

Speaking of what a great job the University does of keeping its students safe, how about providing students with safe transportation home from the bars? The CABS doesn’t run past 7 p.m. on the weekdays or at all on the weekends. Ohio State likes to boast about their Student Safety Service vans that will come and pick you up when you call. That’s a great option — if you have your Buck ID on you, if you want to wait 45 minutes (if they manage to come at all), and if you can get picked up before they stop running shortly after the bars close.

 

And what about all the freakin’ police I see crawling all over the Gateway? This past weekend, I showed up stone sober to find at least five police officers standing around at about 10 p.m., two of whom were flirting with two drunk girls. When we left, I saw two officers still hanging around, which made me feel very safe considering a murder occurred on a night where police were out in record numbers to keep us “safe.”

 

The state of things off campus and at the South Campus Gateway is unacceptable. The Gateway was built in a bad area in order to draw students to the neighborhood and make it a nicer area. The students were drawn, but the area hasn’t gotten any safer. Something needs to happen to fix this situation and it needs to happen soon.

Wait a second; is this guy seriously suggesting that an upscale entertanment complex open all day and all night is not improving the neighborhood? Would this area be better off without patrons walking the streets nearby? Because last time I checked, crime more often occurs where criminals can't be seen as easily. The "eyes on the street" theory. It sounds like this guy is one of those conservatives that oppose anything new and looks for any excuse to say "I told you so".

^^Wow...That article is one of the worst pieces of "journalism" I have read in a long time.  I don't even know where to begin.  I heard a piece on the radio the other day about the difficulties of traditional news papers and that if they aren't around in say the next twenty years all we will have is unverified "news" offered by the government, marketers and advertisers and internet crazies.  Maybe that day is already here.  What exactly is U Weekly?

The guy who wrote that article needs to get the sand out of his vagina.

 

I don't understand why journalists are allowed to give opinions on things they don't know about. You can't just write articles that say "almost everyone knows someone that has been mugged or assaulted on High Street". Prove it! All he would have to do is call 911 or the local police district, or even OSU's police station and BAM he'd have a primary source that knows what the hell they're talking about.

UWeekly is a rag published by mainly college kids. In other words, it has no checks-and-balances that a typical newspaper or television station has. Anyone can publish anything they desire.

 

They aren't 'journalists', they are merely citizens voicing their opinion but stating it as fact.

 

You know, if he really wanted the facts, he could ask OSU's police department or the city of Columbus or the neighborhood association for the crime data. UK doesn't publish theirs online, but I have picked it up from their office. Took five minutes. This guy was just incredibly lazy.

There is a South Campus Gateway thread in OB&E.  This is a photo thread.  News stories go in the other thread.

 

There is an easy way around this though, which would save me a lot of time.  ragerunner...if you don't plan on deleting the photos in this thread any time soon, then I can go ahead and merge the topics.

 

The Gateway speaks out

Director of Campus Gateway addresses the truth about crime

 

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By Jocelyn Beach Sexton

 

“We’re not trying to cover anything up; it’s actually the complete opposite. We report all crimes to the Columbus Division of Police.”

 

Jerry Johnson, Director of Marketing for Gateway, is sitting at a fourth-floor conference table in the High Street complex, spreading out in front of him a sheet of notes, some graphs and tables, and a marked-up copy of a certain UWeekly editorial that has been “circulating the office.”

 

“Every new development is going to have critics,” Johnson says, offering an upfront disclaimer. He is responding to recent criticism of Gateway’s security, remarks made in the wake of a July 4 shooting in the parking garage. The murder came as a shock to students and resulted in a resurfacing of skepticism not seen since the disappearance of Brian Shaffer over a year ago.

 

Amid concern over these occurrences and heightened gossip of other alleged crimes, Johnson is eager to discuss the issue of safety at the South Campus Gateway.

 

“Of course we don’t want to have any crime,” he says. “This development was built in an area with very high crime, though, and now it attracts thousands of people each day. We are proud of our efforts to reduce crime.”

 

In order to explain this statement, Johnson offers some perspective on the area.

 

“We started 11 years ago, when this was the old bar district. There was high crime and drug activity back then. It was sort of a black eye to campus.”

 

Peter Schanz, 27, used to live on the corner of Summit and 11th Avenue. He remembers the area before Gateway was built.

 

“When I lived around here, most of this was gravel,” he said. “But I had my car broken into, and one time, while I was on the back porch, a pimp walked up with a crack whore.”

 

Schanz said the neighborhood is still pretty much the same, once you get off Gateway property. “But it’s definitely a lot safer in the business area,” he said. “The character of the neighborhood has changed here.”

 

According to Johnson, safety and security were top priorities when the University and Campus Partners teamed up to change the face of south campus.

 

“The goal was to effect change within the development that would hopefully spread out into the surrounding neighborhood.”

 

In order to accomplish this goal, Campus Partners hired a public safety consulting firm, the Security Risk Management, Inc., to assess safety concerns for the project. Campus Partners then invested millions of dollars in addressing these concerns on every level. The most obvious safety feature is the glass-enclosed security office located on the first level of the parking garage. Valor Security, a private firm hired by Gateway, monitors the 7-acre area covering 9th Avenue to Chittenden from this office 24 hours a day. Its guards also walk around the complex on scheduled rounds.

 

Aiding the security team are some less obvious safety features, including approximately 100 surveillance cameras, checkpoint “sensors” for guards making rounds, backdoor alarms on all buildings, and extensive lighting. On weekend nights, four special duty Columbus Police officers also patrol the area.

 

“If we had just built new buildings, but not paid attention to good design which promotes public safety, such as lighting, wide sidewalks and an active pedestrian realm, then our efforts would have been ineffective,” Johnson said. “I can’t stress enough how much security is a part of our culture. In addition, Campus Partners continues to work aggressively with the city and neighborhood civic leaders to improve the surrounding community.”

 

It is one thing to discuss security from inside a fourth-floor office, or to see the “extensive lighting” at lunchtime on a sunny day.

 

Around 10:00 on a Saturday night, Gateway’s “alley” is bustling with activity. Bar-goers line the second-story terraces, families sit on benches outside Coldstone Creamery, and late-night diners crowd the restaurants’ patios. Two security guards stand on opposite ends of the walkway, while a group of three Columbus Police officers walk north down High Street.

 

Alison Guzman, 22, is sitting on a bench outside McFadden’s with a friend. Guzman lives on 9th Avenue, on the opposite side of High Street. Though she said she doesn’t exactly feel safe where she lives, Gateway feels different.

 

“Once I get down here, I feel a lot safer,” she said. “It’s well lit, and there’s a lot of security.”

 

Guzman said the area is one of the safer places to go out on campus. “I just feel better seeing taxis and people everywhere. There is so much going on all the time.”

 

But she has heard about crime occurring here as well, so she always stays in a group.

 

“I heard about a kidnapping and rape across from Eddie George’s. I didn’t see it on the news, though. I’m not really worried about it; I just make sure I’m not alone.”

 

The “kidnapping” she heard of, it turns out, is a rumor. According to Johnson, who read of the alleged kidnapping in the UWeekly editorial, a man was missing for a day and was last seen walking on the sidewalk near Eddie George’s. The man returned the next day, however.

 

“He basically said, ‘It’s nobody’s business where I was,’” Johnson said of the man. “But there will be people who think forever some guy was kidnapped there.”

 

Word of mouth can go pretty far, according to Hailey Gurvis, a junior majoring in communications. Gurvis is transferring to Ohio State in the fall, and she said she has already heard a lot about Gateway.

 

“I’m excited to come out here on the weekends,” Gurvis said. “But just because this place is so well lit and populated doesn’t mean crime can’t happen.”

 

Gurvis also questions the effect of private security. “I see guards, but they don’t have guns. They don’t look like they are armed to do much. If there was a fight escalating, to the point of endangering someone’s life, there is not much they could do but call the police.”

 

On the night of Red, White, and Boom, when a fight did escalate to that point, security was not able to stop a man from being shot in the garage behind Gateway. According to Johnson, though, security did break up the two men in a fight earlier in the night, and they were able to close down the garage and catch the perpetrator within hours after the crime took place “When something like that happens, we go back and see if we could have done anything differently,” Johnson said. “But things are going to happen from time to time. We try to take care of it as much as we can, but crime can happen anywhere.”

 

Columbus Police Sergeant John Todhunter agrees with Johnson.

 

“That could have happened any place,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that it happened here.”

 

Nearing the last hour of his Saturday night shift, Todhunter is standing outside the entrance to Ugly Tuna with Officer Gary Mayle. They have been working special duty 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturdays since Gateway opened. During the week, they work on other ends of town.

 

“If you watch the news here, there’s somebody killed probably every day in Columbus,” Mayle added.

 

The officers said these days on campus, their main goal is to stop fights, calm people down, and send them on their way.

 

“The mere presence of the uniform cuts down on all that,” Todhunter said.

 

That wasn’t the case eighteen years ago.

 

Mayle remembers patrolling this area when the old bars were still around.

 

“It was pretty bad back then,” Mayle said. “We used to have to stretch a cable down High Street to keep students out of the street. We used to Mace the sidewalks.”

 

Tonight, however, as the two officers head outside toward the garage, there is no cable down High Street and no sign of Mace.

 

“Them building this complex,” Todhunter said, “that was a godsend.”

 

Originally Published: Issue 515 - August 22, 2007

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      Another great article by UWeekly. CampusGateway seems to often forget that they built a really nice development next door to the ghetto. Of course there is going to be some riff-raff.

 

      In addition, the thugs know that at 2am there are hundreds of drunk students spilling out into High Street from all the area bars, and they are easy targets.

 

      SCG needs to provide a level of security that is sufficient while not appearing to make the customers uncomfortable that they might get arrested for being drunk. A very thin line indeed.

      Patron | 2007-08-22 - 12:16:11 PM (CDT)

 

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      He acts like they don’t mace people anymore...well I just saw someone getting maced by security two weeks ago just steps from the parking garage entrance. Or look at it this way...the police could hang out outside those garage entrances and pick off one DUI after another but they don’t. Just like how they don’t hang out outside country clubs.

      The Snake | 2007-08-22 - 12:47:46 PM (CDT)

Whatever they pay at Taco Bell across the street, it's definitely not enough. Every time I go in there I'm the only customer not wasted off my ass!

every time? wow im seriously impressed....and otoh worried that you are going into taco bell sober.

Pshh even I have standards. I go to Steak'n'shake and White Castle for my late night after-party cravings.

Pshh even I have standards. I go to Steak'n'shake and White Castle for my late night after-party cravings.

 

What are some good places in Columbus for after-party eats? Post over here if you could! http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=13940.0

 

 

Rehabbed South Campus shedding its bad reputation

Monday,  January 21, 2008 - 5:16 AM

By Mike Pramik

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

Seedy, slummy and scuzzy were three words that used to describe some apartments near Ohio State University's South Campus.

 

Some say another adjective now better describes the South Campus residential area: stabilizing.

 

Since the Gateway retail and residential project opened in 2005 -- and even before -- rental properties in the surrounding areas off campus have been in demand among investors and developers, owners say, and some have been snapped up when available.

 

 

Read the full article here:

 

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/01/21/ZONE0121.ART_ART_01-21-08_C10_1293DR4.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101

 

Those who keep it real, go to Buckeye Donuts (but certainly not for the stellar service).

Some disappointing news about the Sunflower Market organic grocery, which occupies 14,000 square feet at the South Campus Gateway.  It's parent company Supervalu is closing this store and all four other Sunflower Markets in Columbus, Indianapolis and Chicago.  The South Campus Gateway will try to replace it with another food store, said Terry Foegler, president of Campus Partners, the project's developer/owner.

 

ORGANICS COMPETITION

Grocer to shut doors

Sunflower Market had 1 1/2 -year tryout in area

Saturday,  January 26, 2008 - 3:01 AM

By Monique Curet

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

An increasingly crowded market for natural foods has produced its first major casualty in central Ohio, as the parent of Sunflower Market said it will close all of that chain's stores next month.

 

Read the full article here:

 

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/01/26/sunflower.ART_ART_01-26-08_C12_2G95QCR.html?sid=101

 

nooooooooooooooo

Trader Joe's, anyone?

ColDayMan, was it a decent natural foods store? I would think that a natural foods store would be a big sell for the area, given the demographics that is up and emerging. I shop almost exclusively at natural foods, co-ops or upscale food markets because of the quality and health of the foods, and such a market personally would appeal to me when I shop around for housing.

Yeah, it was great.  It was the parent company that left; it had nothing to do with the campus store as it was quite popular.  I'm assuming another natural foods store is coming in.

Kroger

Yeah, it was great.  It was the parent company that left; it had nothing to do with the campus store as it was quite popular.  I'm assuming another natural foods store is coming in.

 

*Sigh* I was reading the Dispatch and happened to see the (terrible) news.

 

I haven't been to the Kroger on High Street yet, but they have a natural foods section, right? Or where is the nearest Whole Foods/Wild Oats/other natural foods store?

 

Wild Oats is across the river in Upper Arlington.  Trader Joes and Whole Foods are all along the beltway.

OSU'S $50 MILLION PLEDGE

Growing forward: Campus Partners gets a hefty allowance to buy more land

Friday,  February 1, 2008 - 3:15 AM

By Debbie Gebolys, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

Ohio State University is giving Campus Partners $50 million to buy more property near the campus, but it put the development group on notice it wants more accountability for its investment.  Campus Partners' South Campus Gateway project hasn't made the money consultants originally predicted.

 

"They aren't being fantastically successful," said William Shkurti, OSU senior vice president for business and finance.  Campus Partners, the university's nonprofit development arm, lost more than $400,000 in operating cash last year, according to a state audit.

 

 

South Campus Gateway's pedestrian plaza

as seen from the parking garage looking

west toward 10th Avenue.

 

Read the full article here:

 

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/02/01/CampusP.ART_ART_02-01-08_B1_DC97NDN.html?sid=101

 

 

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

That would be great.  Something along the lines of the new Kroger in the Brewery District or something more urban?

>That is a rather large site.

 

For me to poop on. 

lol

 

Did you just get back from McFaddens Jake?

That would be great.  Something along the lines of the new Kroger in the Brewery District or something more urban?

 

More urban.  And if it had to have a parking lot, put it in the back, not facing High Street.

groan

I don't see the reason to "groan" on this particular parcel.  I can see the initial groan with the old rowhouses/bars where the current South Campus Gateway is but this current parcel was always quite useless and needed to be redeveloped.

Isn't there that newer Industry clothing store with the cool graffiti on this plot of land? I hope that stays, but much of the rest is, eh. Hey OSU, you know there's something called "Transit-Oriented-Development" and these things called "streetcars" which help spur development and increase population density which means more customers for the current businesses and those soon-to-come in the immediate area. Might want to look into that.

groan because they don't explicitly say it where the targeted area is.  I understand that CP should not tip its hand and have people buy on speculation.  However, the original plan for Gateway was to build a smaller Gateway near Lane and High once the South Campus Gateway was completed. 

So does that mean CP will once again "clean up" north campus they way the "cleaned up" south campus?

 

I don't know, thus the groan.

We are way, way saddeded by the loss of Sunflower Market, but I would be completely fine with a Trader Joe's there. The footprint is too small for a Kroger. TJs does well in smaller venues, and their (relatively) low prices would make the store more attractive to the non-collegiate locals. But judging from TJs track record, they probably won't build so close to po' folk.

More South Campus Gateway news...

 

Drexel's run at managing South Campus Gateway theater to end in March

Tuesday,  February 5, 2008 - 10:32 AM

By Mike Pramik

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

The theater at South Campus Gateway will be under new management in March when Campus Partners cuts ties with Drexel Theatres Group.

 

Drexel Gateway, an eight-screen movie theater at the South Campus development near Ohio State University, opened in November 2005 as a combination multiplex and art-movie venue.  Operated by Jeff and Kathy Frank, of Drexel and Drexel Grandview, the cinema’s goal was to combine first-run blockbusters with independent films.

 

Read the full article here:

 

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/02/05/drexel.html?sid=101

 

Landmark Theatres enters Columbus market

Posted by Melissa Starker on February 8, 2008 - 4:08 PM

Columbus Alive

 

http://www.columbusalive.com/?sec=blogs&story=sites/alive/php/blog.php&blog=BadBeautiful/2008/02/landmark_theatres_enters_colum.html

 

Campus Partners just announced that as of March 1, the Gateway Theater will be operated by national chain Landmark Theatres.  This announcement has the potential to lead to a major shake-up in the local film exhibition scene - it's just hard to say at the moment how things are going to play out.

 

Read the full article here:

 

http://www.columbusalive.com/?sec=blogs&story=sites/alive/php/blog.php&blog=BadBeautiful/2008/02/landmark_theatres_enters_colum.html

 

Campus Partners picks theater manager

Saturday, February 9, 2008

By Tracy Turner

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

Landmark Theaters will take over management of the theater at South Campus Gateway, project developer Campus Partners said yesterday.  Landmark operates 57 theaters in 23 markets.  It will take over March 1, said Doug Aschenbach, executive vice president of Campus Partners.

 

Exactly what kinds of movies will be featured remains to be seen.  That decision will be made after Landmark has "had time to spend in the (Columbus) market and get to know the other venues," Aschenbach said. 

 

Link to full article is unavailable. Check Columbus Dispatch Archive.

 

   

 

Well THAT was fast!

Landmark is exceptional at losing money, too. I predict more Big Screen Big Ten Action and less Bergman and Kieslowski for the Gateway.

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.

 

And with the parent company of Sunflower still holding the lease in the Gateway, you can expect a different type of grocery concept to fill in there soon too.

 

These new parcels of land going into the Gateway expansion would do just fine as mid-rise residential and office space with ground floor retail just as most of the rest of the Gateway has been developed.

When I said "urban" Kroger, I meant a Kroger that was up against the street, parking in the back (or preferrably in a garage) unlike the one at 7th/King and High, which disrupts High Street's urban flow.

Take a look at that PDF I linked to. The plan is to extend the storefront to high and shift the parking to the side or rear of the building. ;)

Don't get smart with ME! :D

Old Sunflower Market to get new tenants

ColumbusING.com

Published by Eddy Monday

on March 21, 2008

 

 

Rumor has it that the old Sunflower Market at the Campus Gateway will have some new occupants coming this summer.  According to the rumor CB Richard Ellis will lease the shell of a grocery store to either Giant Eagle or Kroger.  I know what you’re thinking, logistically that makes no sense since there are already Giant Eagles and Krogers just under a mile North and South of the Gateway.  However, the plan is that either Giant Eagle or Kroger will develop a boutique grocery store to occupy the old Sunflower Market.

 

http://www.columbusing.com/?p=661

SEE!  SEE WALKER!!! ;)

I still question the wisdom of a boutique market catering to the drive-thru demographic, but go for it, Giant Eagle/Krogers. There's only one Columbus grocery store for the Kingfish family:

 

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I would love to see Whole Foods or Trader Joe's to go in there :P