February 16, 201510 yr Lifestyle Communities planning 2nd River South apartment tower on High Street Lifestyle Communities Ltd. has its eyes set on yet another South High Street property for redevelopment. The multifamily developer will ask the Downtown Commission next week to review a familiar concept for an apartment complex of about 100 units on the properties at 229-245 S. High St. The seven-story project would be located immediately south of the 106-unit Lifestyle Communities project slated to replace the Trautman Building at 203-213 S. High St. and the Hub Building at 221 S. High St., thanks to a $1 million Clean Ohio grant. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2013/11/lifestyle-communities-planning-2nd.html The site has been cleared for the second LC Tower. I have to say though I will be interested to see how these turn out. The renderings make it look like each site will have 2 towers, but the sites don't look deep enough for that.
February 16, 201510 yr ^I believe they are both one tower, but appear as two in some renderings because they are U-shaped like courtyard apartments.
February 16, 201510 yr I can't believe how quickly all of this is coming together. Hopefully they'll both be moving significantly upward by fall. It appears as though they won't have as many issue with the south buildings neighbor as they did with the north. Just wanted to add that those buildings that just came down were in really bad disrepair. The rear was literally a pile of mix and match additions and it would've taken very deep pockets and know-how to get anything out of them.
March 3, 201510 yr Lots of updates for the RiverSouth area in downtown. Let's start at Rich & High Streets: The northwest corner of Rich & High has been cleared for construction the 8-story LC RiverSouth Building (106 units of apartments, internal parking garage accessed from Wall Street and ground-floor retail along High Street) aka the LC1. The crane has gone up since Eridony's 1/27 pics and they are beginning some below-grade work. Below is a late January 2015 pic from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-january-2015 Below is a snowier late February 2015 pic from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-february-2015
March 3, 201510 yr The southwest corner of Rich & High has been cleared for construction of the 8-story LC RiverSouth Building (110 units of apartments, internal parking garage accessed from Wall Street and ground-floor retail along High Street) aka the LC2. Eridony's pics caught the aftermath of the demo. A poster at http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/seven-story-building-proposed-for-high-rich/page/20/#post-1062345 caught the buildings in the process of being demo'd (below). The 12-story 250 High office & residential project is in the background of this view from Rich Street: Below are some views of the future LC2 site from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-february-2015. This is a view from High Street looking at the LC2 site. The three-story 'Swan Cleaners' building to the left is not part of the LC2 site: View toward the Rich & High intersection (and toward the 250 High Building) looking from the previously built parking garage located west of the LC2 site on this block: Another view from the parking garage west of the LC2 site. This view shows the 250 High Building in the background, the LC2 site in the foreground to the left, the 'Swan Cleaners' building in the middle and an undeveloped High & Main corner to the right:
March 3, 201510 yr At the northeast corner of Front & Main, renovation work on The Julian continues: Columbus Underground just posted a wonderful interior tour of the building at http://www.columbusunderground.com/project-update-the-julian-bw1 From the CU article: "Casto will start accepting reservations on March 10th for The Julian, the converted shoe factory at South Front and West Main Streets downtown. ... Framing is now underway inside, and the developer hopes to start delivering units by the end of the summer. ... The seven-story building will feature 90 loft apartments." “We’ve seen tremendous interest,” said Residential Marketing Coordinator Hilary Deason. “People are excited about the possibility of a mix of old and new, and then when you add in the views, it really captures the essence of downtown living.”
March 3, 201510 yr Here is an exterior shot of The Julian from the neighboring parking garage at http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-february-2015: Here are a few interior shots of The Julian from http://www.columbusunderground.com/project-update-the-julian-bw1. This is a view looking back at the parking garage where the previous photo was taken: Interior framing work in The Julian and a view toward the rest of the building: Some more framing work underway: Corner view from The Julian looking toward High Street. Visible from left to right in the below photo is the crane at the LC1 construction site, the completed Columbus Commons apartments and the 250 High project that is under construction: More interior views are at http://www.columbusunderground.com/project-update-the-julian-bw1
March 3, 201510 yr However, there is one corner on this RiverSouth block where there is no development update: NW corner of Main & High Below is a photo of the northwest corner of Main & High. Two parking lots and the Main Bar at 16 W. Main Street currently occupy this corner. To the left is the photo is The Julian renovation project. To the right is the 12-story 250 High office/residential project under construction:
March 3, 201510 yr And here is the likely reason why there is no development happening at this corner of Main & High: Downtown bar's future uncertain due to 1836 lease: Future of tavern in shadow of new construction hinges on lease dating to 1836: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/03/01/barroom-showdown.html According to this recent article in the Dispatch, local attorney Scott Schiff owns the property on which the Main Bar sits (16 W. Main Street) and the two parking lots at the northwest corner of Main & High. However, there is apparently a 1836 lease that covers property that the Main Bar sits on plus a second renewable 99-year lease that was executed in 1856 specifically for the lot the bar is on at 16 W. Main Street. The current owner of the Main Bar, Jim Velio, who is known for his Jimmy V’s restaurants in Central Ohio, took possession of the premises in 2000. Schiff became the landlord in 2002. Now, Schiff is trying to evict the owners of the Main Bar, citing a rent-escalation provision from the 1836 lease and also claiming that the 1856 renewable 99-year lease expired in 1955 because it was never renewed. Schiff has filed an eviction complaint against Velio which is being heard in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. According to the Dispatch article (linked above), Velio thinks Schiff wants to redevelop the site. The Main Bar sits just south of sites where Lifestyle Communities is building two eight-story apartment buildings and across S. High Street from the 12-story 250 High building under construction. At one time, Schiff offered $450,000 to buy Velio out of the 99-year lease, according to Velio's counterclaim. The Velio counterclaim asks for the court to declare the 99-year lease valid and in effect. As with most development deals, it looks like the future of Main & High comes down to land ownership and money. Velio said in the Dispatch article: “I’m for development. ... If Scott Schiff wants to be building something better, pay me ... fair price."
March 24, 201510 yr Second LC Riversouth Building May Rise Up to 10 Stories Tall By Walker Evans, Columbus Underground March 23, 2015 - 5:26 pm While construction has officially begun on the first of two new apartment buildings from Lifestyle Communities at the Downtown intersection of High and Rich Streets, the second building still has a few details that need to be sorted out. The project was originally conceived as a single seven-to-eight story building, and was later updated to include a second “mirrored” building on the opposite side of Rich Street. (This morning), the Downtown Commission will review an updated proposal to take the second building even taller, to 10 stories. ( . . . ) The expansion to 10 stories will allow for the accommodation of 137 apartment units, while the eight story building will have 106 units. The recently completed Highpoint at Columbus Commons contains 301 apartment units at the northeast corner of High and Rich, while the 250 High development currently under construction at the southeast corner will contain 156 apartments. MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/second-lc-riversouth-building-may-rise-up-to-10-stories-tall
March 24, 201510 yr Here's some renderings of the 10-story version of the LC2 building at the southwest corner of Rich & High. I'm glad this won't be identical to the LC1 building. Plus more stories = more apartments and more downtown residents.
March 24, 201510 yr That's a no-brainer. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 25, 201510 yr :clap: "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 25, 201510 yr More about yesterday's Downtown Commission approval at http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/03/25/apartment-project-adds-more-units.html And we can stop calling the two Lifestyle Communities building sites, LC1 and LC2: -- The north building will be called the Trautman Building: 8 stories, 106 apartments with much of the ground floor occupied by Lifestyle’s Goat bar/restaurant. -- The south building will be called the Beatty Building: 10 stories, 137 apartments with a fitness center and other retail on the ground floor
March 31, 201510 yr Some speculation about another future LC project in RiverSouth from CU: http://www.columbusunderground.com/lifestyle-communities-interested-in-more-riversouth-development The above rendering released for the revision to the Beatty Building shows a new building at the northwest corner of Main & Front. That corner contains a narrow three story office building at 88 W. Main Street, a single-story building at 261 S. Front Street and parking lots that are currently fenced off and being used by LC as a staging and construction office area for current development. CU did get confirmation from LC that “This is a future project of interest for LC”. But the design and timetable for any future LC project on this site is unknown at this time.
May 19, 201510 yr Trautman Building site at the northwest corner of Rich & High: Late April photos from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-april-2015-part-2
May 19, 201510 yr Beatty Building site at the southwest corner of Rich & High (which is across High Street from the under-construction 250 S. High Street building): Late April photos from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-april-2015-part-2
July 8, 20159 yr So only 14 months into the project the Trautman Building looks to be ready for steel.
August 11, 20159 yr Business First can't figure out why construction on the two LC projects has stalled either: - Lifestyle Communities apartment projects remain stalled downtown: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2015/08/lifestyle-communities-apartment-projects-remain.html
August 11, 20159 yr It's a little disconcerting that LC isn't saying anything. Especially after repeatedly being contacted by multiple media outlets over multiple weeks. Even if they were just spouting some boilerplate excuse about shortage of workers, materials, revisions to the building design, city approvals, etc - it would really help. By staying completely silent it's encouraging speculation, negative media attention, and eroding public confidence in their ability to get things done.
August 11, 20159 yr It's a little disconcerting that LC isn't saying anything. Especially after repeatedly being contacted by multiple media outlets over multiple weeks. Even if they were just spouting some boilerplate excuse about shortage of workers, materials, revisions to the building design, city approvals, etc - it would really help. By staying completely silent it's encouraging speculation, negative media attention, and eroding public confidence in their ability to get things done. Agree 100%. This is not good! It seemed one month they were asking for approval for increase the height of one building and then the next all work stopped.
August 11, 20159 yr They need to say something at least. If we end up with two holes in the ground, and a demolished Trautman building, with nothing to show for it, ....*do not even want to think about it* of course in the off chance that they get back on track and maybe even announce another height increase, all will be forgotten and forgiven...
August 11, 20159 yr They need to say something at least. If we end up with two holes in the ground, and a demolished Trautman building, with nothing to show for it, ....*do not even want to think about it* of course in the off chance that they get back on track and maybe even announce another height increase, all will be forgotten and forgiven... They can't leave the tower crane and construction fencing up forever. I'm afraid when they do finally get restarted they will say that due to cost overruns the building has been reduced to 4-stories and the facade has been changed to cinder blocks.
August 12, 20159 yr And by cinder block...you mean glass block! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 1, 20159 yr And by cinder block...you mean glass block! Hey now! There's already a thread for that: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,29491.0.html
September 1, 20159 yr Lifestyle Communities is going on the record to Business First that construction will be resuming on both the Trautman and Beatty buildings at High & Rich. The why of the construction delay is explained in the full article at the link. The new construction schedule is in the below excerpt: Lifestyle Communities to resume work on stalled apartments downtown By Brian R. Ball, Staff Reporter Columbus Business First - Aug. 31, 2015, 4:25pm EDT Lifestyle Communities expects to relaunch construction of 243 apartments downtown after resolving nagging foundation issues with neighboring properties that had shut down the projects for the last few months. ... Lifestyle Communities CEO Michael DeAscentis Jr. told me shutting down both projects in May made sense since the same contractors are working both jobs. “The whole key for us was to bring the two buildings in simultaneously,” DeAscentis said. “So we stopped Trautman and Beatty as we sped up the engineering work.” He told me he expects work on the block layers to begin any day now on the Trautman section, with the Beatty excavation set to begin in late September. After the blocks north of Rich get up to the third floor, contractors will switch over to the south project. Steel is expected to begin rising in January. The Trautman section is set for delivery in Spring 2017, with the section south of Rich getting delivered a few months later. MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2015/08/lifestyle-communities-to-resume-work-on-stalled.html
September 14, 20159 yr They need to say something at least. If we end up with two holes in the ground, and a demolished Trautman building, with nothing to show for it, ....*do not even want to think about it* of course in the off chance that they get back on track and maybe even announce another height increase, all will be forgotten and forgiven... They can't leave the tower crane and construction fencing up forever. I'm afraid when they do finally get restarted they will say that due to cost overruns the building has been reduced to 4-stories and the facade has been changed to cinder blocks. I don't think LC would do that considering that rather than develop turnkey properties, in which case you do take short-cuts, they heavily brand all their developments and tend to hold onto the portfolio.
October 7, 20159 yr 75-unit apartment building is being proposed that would replace the infamous Red Zone nightclub at the southwest corner of Main & Front. This site is diagonal from the Julian Building, the six-story warehouse building being renovated into apartments by Casto. Below is a rendering of the Red Zone apartment building proposal - the view is from the corner of Main & Front with the five-story section facing Front - Main Street then slopes down to Ludlow Street where the building is six-stories: Apartment Building Proposed for Former Red Zone Site Downtown By Brent Warren, Columbus Underground October 7, 2015 - 2:35 pm Borror Properties has proposed a 75-unit apartment building on the southwest corner of Main and Front streets Downtown. Four floors of apartments would sit on top of a two-story parking garage, replacing a two-story building that was once home to the Red Zone nightclub. It would be the first project in the River South district for Borror Properties, which currently has multiple apartment and condominium developments proposed and under construction in the Short North. ... The proposal was submitted to the Downtown Commission and will be given a conceptual review at their next meeting on October 20th. MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/red-zone-apartments-downtown-columbus-bw1
October 7, 20159 yr It's great seeing Borror getting into more projects Downtown. I would love to see some retail space added to this one though...
October 8, 20159 yr I would not be surprised to see Borrow beat Lifestyle on their projects at High and Rich.
November 4, 20159 yr LC Proposes Five-Story Mixed-Use Project for Main and Front Downtown Lifestyle Communities has submitted plans for two adjoining five-story buildings at the northwest corner of Main and Front streets, a proposal that would add 117 apartment units to an area of Downtown that is already attracting plenty of interest from both developers and apartment-seekers. Submitted renderings show a traditional design somewhat similar in style to LC’s other projects in the immediate neighborhood — the Annex at RiverSouth, which was completed in 2009, and the two taller buildings now going up on either side of Rich Street on South High Street. More below: http://www.columbusunderground.com/the-matan-bw1 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 5, 20159 yr LC Proposes Five-Story Mixed-Use Project for Main and Front Downtown I hear they want to break ground on this in 2023 when their two High Street buildings are nearing completion. Pretty ambitious!
November 6, 20159 yr I like this new LC proposal better than the Red Zone proposal across the street. I like The Matan's(?) design choice of painted brick. But my favorite part is the choice to build around the existing 88 W. Main Street building. Below is a site plan for the project included in the comments at http://www.columbusunderground.com/the-matan-bw1 and a County Auditor property photo for 88 W. Main Street: 88 W. Main Street is a beauty. Although, when I said it was LC's "choice" to build around the building, it's because they couldn't purchase it from the property owner (an LLC with a Mentor, Ohio address). So maybe it's just good fortune that they were forced to design around the 88 W. Main building (LC owns the entire block except for that building). Because the design is more interesting for it.
December 15, 20159 yr 94 apartments now planned for former night club in downtown’s RiverSouth The former Red Zone night club in downtown Columbus’ RiverSouth district will be home to 94 apartments under the latest proposal put forth by developer Borror Properties LLC, up from initial plans for 76 units. Borror’s $12 million project now calls for only one level of parking, down from two, and adds a fifth level of residential units to be located on the Front Street grade near the intersection of Main Street. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2015/12/14/94-apartments-now-planned-for-former-nightclub-in.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 16, 20159 yr 194 apartments in RiverSouth approved by Downtown Commission A pair of apartment communities a block apart in downtown Columbus’ RiverSouth district are heading toward construction early next year following the Downtown Commission’s approval on Tuesday. Commissioners granted conditional approval to Lifestyle Communities’ 105-unit complex along South Front Street between West Main and Cherry streets, pending a redesign of windows, landscaping and spacing between it and an existing building. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2015/12/15/194-apartments-in-riversouth-approved-by-downtown.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 7, 20169 yr It's alive!!! LC's 8-story Trautman Building at the northwest corner of High & Rich. Late December 2015 view from High Street from http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/seven-story-building-proposed-for-high-rich/page/30/#post-1107535:
March 7, 20169 yr Couple of late January 2016 views from Rich Street of the Trautman Building construction from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-update-downtown:
March 7, 20169 yr ^The Lifestyle buildings are not meeting any of their revised timelines from August: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2015/08/lifestyle-communities-to-resume-work-on-stalled.html
March 8, 20169 yr Maybe they need a GoFundMe page? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 22, 20169 yr ^ Yep. The project's gone back into hibernation. High Street view from early March 2016 from http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-update-downtown-columbus:
March 23, 20169 yr Meanwhile, something with actual potential progress... New design approved for apartments at former downtown nightclub Borror Properties has earned approval for a redesign of its RiverSouth apartments, with plans to begin work on the 89-unit complex yet this spring. The Dublin-based developer on Tuesday showed Downtown Commissioners a final version of the 303 S. Front St. building, which features more prominent window treatment on the northeast corner facing the intersection of Front and Main streets. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/03/22/first-look-new-design-approved-for-apartments-at.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 24, 20169 yr Agreed. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 17, 20169 yr Dual RiverSouth updates!!! -- One from the Dispatch: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/17/riversouth-transforms-downtown-wasteland-to-vibrant-district.html -- One from the CU: http://www.columbusunderground.com/millennial-tower-will-complete-riversouth-plan The CU reference to the Millennial Tower, is a 25-story tower in the RiverSouth area that was unveiled last week. It has it's own UO thread at http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,30715.0.html
May 17, 20169 yr http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/17/riversouth-transforms-downtown-wasteland-to-vibrant-district.html The RiverSouth update from the Dispatch included this map of recently completed projects, under construction projects, and proposed projects. Including a new project #9, that is across the river in the Scioto Peninsula district:
May 17, 20169 yr http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/17/riversouth-transforms-downtown-wasteland-to-vibrant-district.html The Dispatch update also included these two construction photos of LC's 8-story Trautman Building at the northwest corner of High & Rich. That's the one that's either "on hold" or "going up very very slowly". Comparing these May photos with the previously posted December, January and March photos, either project status could be argued. But, there has been some incremental construction progress. So for now, I'll give it the "going up very very slowly" status: May 2016 - view from Rich Street - high view May 2016 - view from High Street - street view next to DeNovo's sidewalk dining space
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