Meh, they should just call it "TOD minus the T."

Why does a manufactured "neighborhood" need a slogan and a logo?

^So that you will always use their parking ramp...

More about the South Campus Gateway rebrand from CU:

 

http://www.columbusunderground.com/south-campus-gateway-rebrands-to-university-district-gateway

Roundup of retail comings and goings at the South Campus Gateway - or the Gateway.  Apparently, after new tenants - Starbucks, Jimmy John's, Raising Cane’s and Pizza Rev - open later this year, the development's retail space will be 95 percent leased.  However that number will go down after Eddie George's restaurant relocates to Grandview Yard in the spring:

 

http://www.columbusunderground.com/gateway-adding-starbucks-jimmy-johns-reaches-95-retail-capacity

The six-story mixed-use building proposed to replace the suburban-style Taco Bell at 1525 N. High Street - previously shown here and here in this thread - was approved this week by the University Area Review Board.  The building's design is unchanged except for a smaller number of overall apartment units (down from 120 to 95 apartments containing 147 beds).

 

The building still features a two-level 116-space underground parking garage accessed from a back alley.  And it still features 7,000 sq. ft. of ground floor retail space that will have a Taco Bell taking up its southern-most space along High Street.

 

Below is a rendering of the approved six-story building from http://www.columbusunderground.com/south-campus-taco-bell-bw1:

 

^this is an improvement for the neighborhood

One of the better campus-area yuppie boxes.

Yuppie boxes. Maybe. But, really, who is going to live there and at the newly branded stuff on 8th and 9th, the stupid new 16th & High building and the Pavey block? The amount of dense housing housing being developed in the Short North and campus is revolutionary. I know the demographics and preferences are changing, but what is the market for all of this? Is it recent college grads and other professionals choosing to live near campus? Empty nesters? Wealthy students who are juniors and seniors? Is the market becoming saturated?

^ Then consider the impact of the university requiring sophomores to live on campus, which will take 10,000 potential renters out of the market.

Part of the High Street portion of the Edwards development is being cleared off.  The rest of the development being built along 8th Avenue, 9th Avenue and in the interior of the block can be seen in the background.  Photo from http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/03/25/after-50-years-its-still-all-about-the-jukebox-at.html

 

Some photos of the Edwards apartment development along 8th and 9th avenues from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-university-district:

 

 

South Campus Gateway area photos taken on April 30 from http://www.columbusunderground.com/osu-campus-construction-photos:

 

(Cross-posted in the OSU/University Area developments thread:  http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,1565.msg802190.html#msg802190

 

Along High Street between 8th & 9th Avenues.  Land being cleared for an Edwards 5-story, 140-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail and structured parking.  Over 300-units of other Edwards apartments are under construction along 8th Avenue to the right and between 8th & 9th around a parking garage:

 

Construction of the 5-story building along High Street cannot begin until this 60-unit affordable housing project, to be operated by the Columbus Housing Network, is completed.  CHN sold a smaller apartment building along High Street to Edwards in exchange for this new building:

 

Northwest corner of 9th & High - across the street from the future Edwards 5-story building.  Renovation continuing on the three-story apartment building at the corner and the two-story rowhouse along W. 9th Avenue:

The low income housing between 8th and 9th has been demolished to make room for the continued construction of Edwards' Building 1. I spoke with a resident and they are being relocated to the Easton area until their new building on E. 9th is completed sometime this fall.

 

Artistic photo:

Apartments Proposed for Unusual Campus-Area Site

 

 

An unusually-shaped parcel located behind the Gateway parking garage could be the site of the latest student housing project in the University District.

 

More below:

http://www.columbusunderground.com/apartments-proposed-for-unusual-campus-area-site-bw1

 

 

 

I thought that long and narrow piece of property in the upper right-hand corner looked crazy so I looked on Google Streetview to see what was there. Nothing is there. It is pretty much all gravel that people drive across to go from 10th Avenue to the rear of their houses. I would have never guessed it was a separate piece of property.

 

I think this is the long and narrow (26' x 235') parcel this apartment project is proposed for.

 

Campus architecture is becoming so GENERIC.

Campus architecture is becoming so GENERIC.

 

Yeah, because I was always so original and cutting edge.

Campus architecture is becoming so GENERIC.

 

Yeah, because I was always so original and cutting edge.

 

Freudian slip!!!

Campus architecture is becoming so GENERIC.

 

Campus needs an update, it's neighborhood fabric is not changing but the High Street corridor was almost embarrassing for such a world class institution.  The building next to south campus Taco Bell looks amazing, the new building taking over for TB/7eleven is going to be a giant improvement.  Also I've come to terms with the 17th area project as well, I had always said the houses behind Charlies needed to go because it looked terrible.  Then you go all the way up to the new Pavey Square development and High & Lane; it's getting the update that it so desperately needed.

It is that parcel running east-west along the alley. That parcel is exactly 26 feet by 235 feet.

It is that parcel running east-west along the alley. That parcel is exactly 26 feet by 235 feet.

 

Yes: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,9206.msg815417.html#msg815417

 

It is that parcel running east-west along the alley. That parcel is exactly 26 feet by 235 feet.

 

Yes: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,9206.msg815417.html#msg815417

 

 

I am so glad they are utilizing that long narrow parcel. As it is it is just wasted now. It will be decent infill.

Video message boards proposed along High Street outside the Gateway

 

 

New video message boards could soon welcome visitors to the Gateway development by Ohio State University.

 

More below:

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/10/19/video-message-boards-proposed-along-high-street.html

Unfortunate. If it's like the giant LED boards in downtown Cleveland, they become overly bright distractions - especially to motorists.

That alley at the gateway has been a disaster since the beginning.

 

They really need to land an anchor tenant that will draw from outside of the campus community in order to make it work, something like a Trader Joe's or Uniqlo. The way it is now most people arrive by foot, not car, and so the alley's role as a ped connection from the parking garage to High St sees very little traffic.

That alley at the gateway has been a disaster since the beginning.

 

They really need to land an anchor tenant that will draw from outside of the campus community in order to make it work, something like a Trader Joe's or Uniqlo. The way it is now most people arrive by foot, not car, and so the alley's role as a ped connection from the parking garage to High St sees very little traffic.

 

Trader Joe's OR Uniqlo? LOL. Those couldn't be more different tenants:)

Why does Columbus think electronic message boards are so cool?

Trader Joe's OR Uniqlo? LOL. Those couldn't be more different tenants:)

 

Why? Just because one is groceries and the other is clothing? I think that's looking at it too simplistically.

 

They are both destination stores in their respective segments that target a young, educated clientele with affordable but high-quality on-trend products.

 

Affluent YPs are absolutely nuts for both, live in large (fast-growing) numbers nearby (SN, Cville, Grandview, etc), and would absolutely travel to SCG if either or anything similar existed there.

 

This is the market Gateway should be targeting if they're ever going to expand beyond their undergrad college student base. Currently there is no destination retail to attract shoppers from outside the immediate area. Sunflower Market provided this originally, but was short-lived because the entire company went out of business. They need an anchor - groceries, clothing, something unique that is a big draw. JMHO ;)

While developments continue to pop up all around it, a couple of new tenants will be opening soon in vacant retail spots in the original South Campus Gateway:

 

- Breakfast/lunch/brunch chain First Watch will be moving into the corner space at 1567 N High, next to Aveda

 

- "Trism" a spinoff of A&R creative group's Alchemy Juice Bar on Parsons near Children's Hospital will be taking over the former home of Eddie George's Grill at 1636 N High. The concept is loosely described as "a healthy fast casual spot"

 

Trader Joe's OR Uniqlo? LOL. Those couldn't be more different tenants:)

 

Why? Just because one is groceries and the other is clothing? I think that's looking at it too simplistically.

 

They are both destination stores in their respective segments that target a young, educated clientele with affordable but high-quality on-trend products.

 

Affluent YPs are absolutely nuts for both, live in large (fast-growing) numbers nearby (SN, Cville, Grandview, etc), and would absolutely travel to SCG if either or anything similar existed there.

 

This is the market Gateway should be targeting if they're ever going to expand beyond their undergrad college student base. Currently there is no destination retail to attract shoppers from outside the immediate area. Sunflower Market provided this originally, but was short-lived because the entire company went out of business. They need an anchor - groceries, clothing, something unique that is a big draw. JMHO ;)

 

No Xmas on college campuses scares retailers to death. With groceries the margin is so terrible that you can't have any slow times whatsoever. Losing out on other big food holidays like Thanksgiving, July 4th, Memorial Day and Labor Day is awful too.

Btw, excavator is on site at the former south campus taco bell.

Btw, excavator is on site at the former south campus taco bell.

The building was being demolished when I drove by at 9:00AM.

Btw, excavator is on site at the former south campus taco bell.

The building was being demolished when I drove by at 9:00AM.

I was the first customer there :(

It's been a while since we updated the many construction projects going on in the South Campus Gateway area.  And there are seven separate projects that are either on-going or have recently finished up in this High Street & 8th/9th Avenue area of SCG.  So I'll update each project via separate post.

 

Below is the most recent aerial map I could find for the High & 8th/9th area.  This will serve as the base map for each project:

 

1) One Pearl Place - Edwards Companies - 320 units (completed in Fall 2016)

 

One Pearl Place consists of two projects on separate sites:

• four-story, 260-unit apartment building between 8th and 9th avenues with four-level parking garage at its interior

• two 3-story apartment buildings (totaling 60-units) facing 8th Avenue with parking behind the buildings

 

 

This is a view of the four-story, 260-unit building from Pearl & 9th.  Another Edwards development (Highline at Nine) is under construction across Pearl Street from this apartment building.  Across 9th Avenue from One Pearl Place are apartments that line one of the South Campus Gateway parking garages:

 

 

This is a view from further down 9th Avenue of the four-story apartment building:

 

 

This is a view from 8th Avenue looking at both parts of the One Pearl Place development.  The previously viewed four-story apartment building is on the right in the picture.  One of the two 3-story apartment buildings built south of 8th are on the left in the picture.  The gray 2-story building to the far right is an existing apartment building that One Pearl Place had to build around:

 

 

Here are some interior views of the four-story, 260-unit apartment building.  This one shows a landscaped courtyard next to the parking garage at the interior of the project block:

 

 

This is one of the tenant common spaces that overlooks the previous courtyard - complete with glass garage door:

 

 

This is the opposite end of that courtyard.  Because the development rents to college students it has a swimming pool. (I think that a law or something):

2) Terrace Place - 60-unit supportive housing development for formerly homeless individuals or at-risk individuals operated by the Community Housing Network.  CHN sold a smaller 36-unit building that offered similar services at 1494 N. High Street to Edwards Companies (which allowed them to proceed with their Highline on Nine development) to pay for this new building. (Terrace Place opened in Spring 2017)

 

 

Alot has been written about the programs Terrace Place offers.  Here are a few of them:

 

http://www.chninc.org/project_summary.php?rec=38

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/04/28/new-weinland-park-apartments-providing-affordable.html

 

http://radio.wosu.org/post/how-one-columbus-apartment-complex-thinking-differently-about-homelessness#stream/0

 

Here is a streetview of Terrace Place from September 2016.  Although the exterior of building is mostly finished, the landscaping is still not finished:

 

 

 

Here is a view looking down 9th Avenue from April 2017 with the landscaping finished:

 

 

 

Here is a backside view of Terrace Place:

 

3) Highline on Nine - Edwards five-story, 140-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail and structured parking scheduled to be completed by Fall 2017.

 

 

 

This is a January 2017 construction photo of the Highline on Nine.  This is looking northeast toward E. 9th and High and shows the previously built South Campus Gateway development in the background:

 

 

This is a May 2017 construction photo.  This one is looking southeast toward the same 9th & High corner:

 

 

This is a July 31 construction photo of the same corner from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-university-district-franklinton-near-east-side

 

4) W. 9th & High Apartment Building Renovation - Campus Partners acquired the building and sold it to Buckeye Real Estate - 12-units (completed in Fall 2016)

 

 

 

View from High Street looking southwest:

 

 

Views from W. 9th & High looking northwest at the renovated apartment building:

 

5) W. 9th Avenue Rowhouse Renovation - Campus Partners acquired the building and sold it to Buckeye Real Estate - 6-units (completed in Fall 2016)

 

 

View from W. 9th Avenue:

6) 34 W. 9th Avenue - new construction - 3-story, 18-unit apartment building (still under construction)

 

 

Two vacant houses were demolished for this project.  The September 2016 streetview has a smaller view of the demo'd houses (one looked pretty good, one not so good)  This project is located just across an alley from the rowhouse renovation:

 

 

Here is a rendering of the front facade that will face W. 9th:

 

 

Here is May 2017 construction photo of the backside of the 34 W. 9th building.  This view is from the neighboring Taco Bell property which is also now a construction site.  The backside of the rowhouse renovation is the other building in the photo:

7) Taco Bell site - six-story, 95-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail (with a new Taco Bell as a tenant) and structured parking (began construction spring 2017)

 

 

Here is a rendering of the project that will replace the suburban-style Taco Bell.  It is being developed by Skip Weiler and David Ruma.  More about this project at https://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,9206.msg787479.html#msg787479 and http://www.columbusunderground.com/south-campus-taco-bell-bw1

 

 

This is a May 2017 view of the construction site from 9th and High:

 

 

This is a May 2017 view from further east on 9th Avenue looking back toward High Street showing the Highline on Nine project and the Taco Bell construction site:

Definitely a lot happening in a small area. It's a shame the quality of architecture isn't better.

Thanks for the rundown!

The City is currently reworking utilities on High between 7th and 9th with the streetscape improvements planned for 2018. My commute down High is certainly interesting.

I got tear-gassed on 9th back in my heyday. 

The Bier Stube was my social life and one of my employers the 7 years it took my to get my 4 year degree. 

I am SHOCKED Campus partners renovated buildings rather than bulldozing them. 

I got tear-gassed on 9th back in my heyday.

 

One of my buddies poke a guy's eye out in front of one of the meathead bars in the early 2000s.

The Bier Stube was my social life and one of my employers the 7 years it took my to get my 4 year degree. 

I am SHOCKED Campus partners renovated buildings rather than bulldozing them. 

 

Does it still have all those satellite dishes on the roof?

The Bier Stube was my social life and one of my employers the 7 years it took my to get my 4 year degree. 

I am SHOCKED Campus partners renovated buildings rather than bulldozing them. 

 

Does it still have all those satellite dishes on the roof?

 

Craig owns it now, and I think one of them is still up there.  The old owner, Doug, was an early adopter of satellite TV for sports.

 

Fun fact:  The Stube and the convenient store there is owned by the owner of Varsity Club, the businesses just rent.  Every few years Campus Partners offers to buy the land, he says no.