Nice!

Pizzuti proposes Short North hotel

Project would include garage, office building

Thursday,  February 14, 2008 - 3:22 AM

By Mike Pramik, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

A local developer wants to build a hotel in the Short North across from Goodale Park, a major project that also would include a cultural center, office building and parking garage.  Pizzuti Cos. will unveil the project tonight to the Victorian Village Commission.  It would occupy nearly an entire block of the Short North that includes the 1920s building housing the Order of the United Commercial Travelers of America, a fraternal society that offers insurance to its members.

 

Pizzuti Cos.' preliminary concept for the project includes:

• A 10-story, 160-room hotel fronting High Street.

• A parking garage with up to 500 spaces.

• A 40,000-50,000-square-foot office/residential building.

• Retail space totaling 12,000 square feet.

• A cultural center in a restored portion of the United Commercial Travelers building, which faces the park.

 

Read more http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/02/14/Pizzuti_Short_North.ART_ART_02-14-08_C8_2V9BNO0.html?sid=101

 

Fantastic...10 stories is a nice pedestrian-sized building.

Further update on the Ibiza project in the Short North from www.columbus43215.com website...

 

Article link: http://columbus43215.com/?p=56

Posted on January 7th, 2008 by Ryan

 

In the Short North, demolition is complete and promotional materials are up for the Ibiza on High development located at the corner of Hubbard and High streets. The multi-use project promises modern, green-living at affordable prices with a location and views of downtown Columbus that can’t be beat. The website (http://ibizaonhigh.com) looks to still be under construction, but the developer sent us these stats via e-mail:

 

HOMES

- 147 homes ranging in price from $119k to $1.55 million

- Homes sizes from 550 ft2 to 5000+ ft2

- 2 story townhouses in the sky on the 5-6th Floor Terrace Penthouse Level

- 2 story townhouses in the sky on the 10-11th Floor Penthouse Levels

- Nine 4 story townhouses on East Hubbard across from Italian Village Park

- Condominium fees estimated $80-$600 /home

 

PARKING

- Secured underground - 1 space per 1 bedroom, 2 spaces per 2+ bedroom units

 

AMENITIES

- 24 hour concierge

- Rooftop Pool + Downtown view deck

- Stunning design from acclaimed architect George Acock

- Dramatic floor to ceiling windows

- Yoga, Pilates, Fitness Center

- 3 convenient elevators including a large freight elevator for easy moving

- Environmentally designed LEED certified finishes

- Trash and Recycle chutes make going green easier

- Stunning interior design palettes that are modern zen and architecturally cohesive

- Bang & Olufsen shared media room

- Stability of Short North Area, Franklin County’s highest appreciating neighborhood

 

COMMERCIAL

- 24000 ft2 commercial space on the first floor with pre-zoned restaurant space + patio space available

- Leases start at $25-$30/ft2 triple net

 

CONSTRUCTION

- Begins spring 2008

- Homes delivered between late summer 2009 and spring 2010

- Sales Materials + Sales Office will launch in early 2008

 

Looks great!

:D

Yeah, I'm excited to see this project get underway. The Short North needs some extra density.

These additional hotel rooms in close proximity to the Convention Center should help them land more/larger conventions as well. Experience Columbus has been saying for awhile now that they've been turned down for many conventions due to our lack of close hotel space to the center.

What ever happened to that Hyatt extension?

It surfaces in the news from time to time. I know the folks at Experience Columbus want to see it happen, but I don't think Hyatt has committed to it yet. I'm sure they want a nice incentive package from the city.

 

Would be nice if it happened though. Would fetch us a few more high profile conventions. Being the capital city of such a political battleground state we were a fairly strong contender for the 2008 Republican National Convention (Coleman even flew to Washington to try to make a deal) but ended up being passed up due to falling short of the required number of full service hotel rooms with any proximity to the Convention Center.

 

The center is big enough. We just need more big hotels! :D

 

We need a J.W. Marriott!  Hell, just a Marriott!

From their site: http://www.ibizaonhigh.com/

 

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Absolutely love the way this project looks on the outside.  Swanky interiors too! 

 

And great downtown skyline views!  Very nice.

Easily one of THE best infill projects going on in the state right now.

And according to the perspective on this rendering it will be built on I-670. That IS good infill.

LOL!

^^Someday right? We can always dream.

 

And according to the perspective on this rendering it will be built on I-670. That IS good infill.

 

 

You and your pesky little details!  :wink:

 

 

Can I point out here the development appears to be on top Nationwide Arena? Again: good use of space. Anywhere but Italian Village.

Actually, I think that view is from across the street from the Yukon Lofts (you can barely see the Greek Church on the bottom-right).

You're right. Still off by a few blocks of true. In practice, a good piece of this view will be blocked by the Bollinger Tower. The nerve of those low-income residents blocking my $3 million view!

Short North

Planning for the next 25 years

Tuesday,  March 11, 2008 5:39 AM

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

The Short North Business Association recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and unveiled a long list of plans to ensure that the next 25 years see continued growth and even more foot traffic along High Street from the Greater Columbus Convention Center to 5th Avenue.  The plan includes connecting the Short North with Ohio State's South Campus Gateway, getting more conventioneers to take the short walk north, attracting out-of-state visitors who see the district as a destination and aggressively recruiting businesses to move in and build on the base already in place.

 

The association will work with the convention center and Experience Columbus to expand the base of visitors.  In the future, groups of conventioneers will be able to head to the Short North for a wine tasting, fashion show or private art show, Angelo said.  Information kiosks are planned outside the convention center to lead people to the Short North.

 

Already, there are signs -- and all those magazine articles -- that point to increased out-of-town visitors. "People are coming to the Gallery Hop and say they are from Dayton, from Toledo and Cleveland and even further, from Detroit," Lindsay said. "They said they read about it and planned their weekend around the Gallery Hop.  "That's what we need, and we need even more of it."

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/03/11/short_north.ART_ART_03-11-08_C10_849JQHV.html?sid=101

^I like Tigertree. If the SN wants to be serious about tourism, it needs rail first.

Ohioanna All-Star Market coming to Short North

Columbus Underground - http://www.columbusunderground.com

Posted by Liz Lessner, owner/operator of Betty's, Surly Girl Saloon, and the Tip Top Kitchen on March 5, 2008

 

Ohioanna All-Star Market will be a small New York City "bodega style" urban market catering to our currently underserved downtown-dwelling demographic.  We chose the name "all-star" as a nod to our own local favorites; we plan to emphasize local produce, cheeses, coffee, beer and other locally grown and produced sundries to nourish our neighbors.

 

Ohioanna Market will feature fresh flowers, produce, bagels, breads, coffee and deli items.  Columbus "All-Stars" will be featured including Stauf's Coffee, Amish cheeses, dairy items from Happy Chicken Farms, and carry-out items from Betty's, Surly Girl Saloon, and Tip Top Kitchen.  We are taking suggestions for items now.  Baked goods, cupcakes, bread, beer, wine and the usual sundries will be available as well.

 

Read more at http://www.columbusunderground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12656

Press release on the IBIZA on High development via Walker at the Columbus Underground.

 

link: http://www.columbusunderground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13346

 

Governor Ted Strickland To Launch IBIZA

Nation’s First Hybrid-Home™ Concept Brings Power Brokers To Short North

 

Ohio’s 68th Governor will cut the ribbon to launch construction of IBIZA on High, the $45 million, 11-story, first-of-its-kind condominium venture to be built in the heart of the Short North Arts & Entertainment District.

 

IBIZA on High and its adjoining 250-space Short North Parking Deck will be celebrated from 5:00 to 10:00 pm during the Saturday, April 5th Short North Gallery Hop by more than 300 guests comprising a Who’s Who of Central Ohio. The Governor will cut the proverbial ribbon at 5:30 pm on the IBIZA site at the corner of North High Street and Hubbard Avenue.

 

The buzz about IBIZA is attracting Governor Ted Strickland and other high-ranking government officials, the region’s top business leaders, journalists and artists, the culture crowd and others who like to keep their collective finger on the pulse of Columbus because it is said to be a place of many firsts.

 

The first massive economic development initiative in the Short North: A $45 million injection into the local economy creating 200 new jobs (100 full time permanent jobs in 23,000 sq. feet of commercial space) and sustaining 250+ construction jobs during IBIZA’s two year building phase.

 

The first public / private partnership to bring desperately needed parking to the Short North.

 

The first-of-its-kind Short North investment: IBIZA is a unique and positive example of a city creatively assisting by implementing a TIF so the neighborhood can pay for development with its own tax dollars.

 

The first official application of the Hybrid-Home™ concept: IBIZA manages to merge the best and the brightest of downtown urban living with the kind of convenience once available only in suburbia. Urban living, suburban conveniences and “green” friendly design.

http://columbusretrometro.typepad.com/columbus_retrometro/2008/04/ibiza-ribbon-cu.html#more

 

This Saturday, Governor Strickland and Mayor Coleman will be joining the Arms Properties team in an official ribbon cutting ceremony for the Ibiza mixed-use condominium project at the corner of N. High St. and E. Hubbard in the Short North Arts District.  Following the ceremony there will be a Launch Party / Open House event that runs in conjunction with this weekend's Gallery Hop from 6pm to 10pm.

 

The final count on the Ibiza project is 144 condominium units, ranging in price from $119,999 for 546 square feet running all the way up to $1,499,999 for a 4828 square foot unit.  There are 11 stories in the building, 20,000+ square feet of commercial & retail space and an additional 5 level parking structure that will be partially available for public parking.  There is also a 6000 square foot fitness center planned for the condominium.

 

 

Great, innovate project.  Don't much care for the name Ibiza though.  Other than that minor detail it is terrific.  Looks very sophisticated and alive.

This looks like it's going going to turn out very, very nicely! I saw an information tent for it when I went to the Gallery Hop a few days ago.

I live up the block from the (future) Ibiza. Last Saturday morning, on our way to the North Market to visit other Urban Ohio forumers, my son and I stopped by the Ibiza tent to peruse the SmartCar they were set to give away. A spirited representative pounced on us and asked if we were ready to give urban living a try!  I told him we were already sold on the concept and  I held my laughter when he informed us we'd be entered to win the Smartcar if we entered into a contract to buy a unit at the Ibiza. I was thinking at those prices--and in this market--the Smartcar should come gratis.

York Masonic Temple Goes Condo as Masons celebrate 200 years of Freemasonry in Ohio

By Jennifer Hambrick, ShortNorth.com

April 2008

 

A historic Short North area building and former Masonic stomping ground is getting renovated and going public in a move that might bring much needed attention to the territory between the South Campus Gateway and Fifth Avenue.

 

The vintage 1914 three-story York Masonic Temple on High Street, just north of Fifth Avenue, is being converted into upscale condominiums.  Joe Armeni, a specialist in Short North real estate with Re/Max City Center, owns the building and is overseeing its redevelopment according to designs drawn up by the Columbus architectural firm Behal, Sampson and Dietz. 

 

The development, which will be called the York on High Brownstones and Lofts, will offer 25 one- and two-bedroom units ranging in price from $159,000 to $349,000.  Every unit will have a designated parking space, either in the building’s outdoor lot or in a new garage at the east end of the building.

 

The entrances to the brownstone apartments on the lowest level will be carved into the red brick walls of the building’s north face, and each will be covered by a stylized porch roof.  The upper two floors will be converted into units with loft space.  Some top-floor units will have views of downtown Columbus.

 

York Temple had been home to the York Lodge #563 from 1915, when the temple was dedicated, to 2002, when the lodge voted to sell the property.  The future residents of York on High Brownstones and Lofts will see trendy, light-flooded residences that nod to the past.  But the former York Temple building will continue to tell the story of more than a century of Freemasonry in Columbus.

 

 

 

 

 

Read more at http://www.shortnorth.com/Masonic.html

- As reported by www.columbusretrometro.typepad.com ... an update on the progress of the Jackson on High residential project.  RetroMetro got this information from the Daily Reporter website.  The link to that story on the Daily Reporter site doesn't work anymore, but here's the info from the RetroMetro site. 

 

- The headline should probably read "groundbreaking" instead of "grand opening" though...but here it is.

 

"Jackson on High's grand opening set for Aug. 2"

Melanie McIntyre

The Daily Reporter

July 23, 2008

 

One of the Short North's premier mixed-use developments finally will break ground next month, according to its developer.

 

Pre-construction work for The Jackson on High is complete and Ruscilli Construction Co. will begin in August, said Brad Howe, managing member of JBH Holdings LLC, the company developing the project.

 

"We're in game mode.  We're ready to go," he said, adding that a grand opening for The Jackson is scheduled for Aug. 2 - just in time for the next Gallery Hop.

 

The event will take place at the project's 1,600 square foot "experience center" located at 34 W. Fourth Ave.

 

http://columbusretrometro.typepad.com/columbus_retrometro/2008/07/jackson-on-high.html#comments

 

It's just a building. It's fairly well proportioned and knows what it is. It shows signs of classical aesthetic values creeping back into contemporary architecture. It tries to be in harmony with the scale of the buildings around it. It's not trying to be a deconstructivist crack trip.

 

It is not dull.

 

nah, it's exactly the same modern infill you see in every city in these days. if all you can say about it is that it's "fairly well proportioned" and "it's just a building" well that is exactly the reason for the rant. not that there is anything wrong with it, it's fine, but it wont turn up in dwell and wont be written about in architectural digest either.

 

There is really nothing very special about 95 percent of the buildings along High Street. They may be older and have more "character" but they're still pretty bland. That corridor isn't known for architecture as much as it's known for the activity that is going on. This building's style is no more common than the majority of the buildings on High St. in their respective time period.

 

edit: Didn't realize this was posted a year ago. Sorry.

Pizzuti proposes gallery for United Commercial building

Business First of Columbus - by Brian R. Ball

Friday, August 15, 2008

 

Columbus developer Ron Pizzuti has plans for a fine art gallery off Goodale Park as part of his company’s bid to build a boutique hotel in the art-steeped Short North.  But the company’s plans to demolish a portion of an office building at 632 N. Park St. as part of the complex could stymie the project’s acceptance by the city’s Victorian Village Commission.  Pizzuti Cos. planned to offer the zoning and development panel a revised proposal for a 130-room hotel, 60,000 square feet of office space and a parking garage at the commission’s Aug. 14 meeting. 

 

Image Courtesy Victorian Village Commission / Business First

Pizzuti Cos. wants to add an art gallery to the boutique hotel concept it’s pitching in the Short North.

 

Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/08/18/story4.html?ana=e_ph

I'll take it!

Me too, but the parking garage should mainly be for scooters and bikes with maybe one floor for cars. On the top floor.

What downtown needs is a large convention service oriented hotel to compete with Hyatt.  Not everyone is a fan of Hyatt, including me.  And most needed, is a Kimpton style boutique hotel or two, three for convention/transient business.  Columbus is no longer Zanesville, and has got to get out of the small town mentality, and think on a larger scale, and offer guests a variety.

Columbus is no longer Zanesville, and has got to get out of the small town mentality, and think on a larger scale, and offer guests a variety.

I don't think the city would object to having new hotels built. Experience Columbus has been pushing for new Convention Center Hotel Developments for years now.

 

I'm not sure where you're getting the "small town mentality" vibe? Perhaps you should be questioning the hotel developers who aren't building something here?

The Ibiza design is nothing short of stunning.

 

However, as a resident of Bollinger, I also noticed our building missing from the view towards downtown.  Strangely, our site is what the highest costing condos will be looking at, being the same height.  No doubt not a great selling point.

 

I think it's worth remembering Bollinger Tower was built in '85 by CMHA specifically FOR seniors & disabled low-income residents.  It's not like we are invading the neighborhood- as many folks act. Some of our residents have been here since the building opened its doors and this is their home of 23 yrs- long before the money train arrived in the Short North.

 

The greatness of the Short North is truly the mix of folks here, I for one hope the balance isn't pushed too far up the scale (regardless of how much I enjoy my clear view of the entire west side, and living in the gallery district).

 

 

^I absolutely and completely agree. Bollinger Tower and its residents are a treasure, and your presence here helps keep the Short North real. Don't go changing. Ever.

^I absolutely and completely agree. Bollinger Tower and its residents are a treasure, and your presence here helps keep the Short North real. Don't go changing. Ever.

 

Thanks Kingfish.  This week began a year long facelift project on the exterior of the building.  In a meeting Monday afternoon we were shown sketches of the finished facade, very nice and more in line with newer surroundings.  Destruction of the old front facade began the next morning (Tuesday). 

 

The plan includes a new entrance awning, new walkways and bench seating for the front (with wheelchair ramp of course).  An exended and matching courtyard of sorts on the back entrance, shortened parking lot (same number of spaces), all new extended patio area on the south side with new patio furniture and grills.  They are completely re-doing the 1st floor lobby to include more glass windows, and building a red brick facade all the way around to the top of the 4th floor, adding an aluminum edge at that point, painting the stucco from that point to the top where another aluminum edge will be added.  The last phase of this project includes all-new windows for the entire building (badly needed since in many units windows are sealed closed or won't close, etc). 

 

This is a 3.4 million facelift, though we're in the dark where the money is coming from.  Rumors do fly in here and the current one is that CMHA has allowed private interests to buy-in as co-owners of the building (how does one verify such a thing?).

 

At a meeting back in May, CMHA came in and discussed with residents the possibility of building retail space in front of the building to generate income to help with monthly operating expenses.  The firms hired for the current project knew nothing of that plan nor how they might fit together at a later date.  CMHA directors stated back in May that their towers have become too costly to maintain, but this is the one tower CMHA owns that they will not tear down or sell. 

^I absolutely and completely agree. Bollinger Tower and its residents are a treasure, and your presence here helps keep the Short North real. Don't go changing. Ever.

 

I'll say. I had a conversation (rather, he was mostly talking at me) for around an hour tying all sorts of subjects that had nothing to do with each other. Sci-Fi movies, Jesus, and penile enhancements. I'll take that over the rich suburbanites bringing all their cars over here for the novelty "urban living" (hint: urban living means making at a least half of your trips without a car). I'm mostly looking forward to the retail spaces that will become available in Ibiza and hopefully, Bollinger.

^I absolutely and completely agree. Bollinger Tower and its residents are a treasure, and your presence here helps keep the Short North real. Don't go changing. Ever.

 

I'll say. I had a conversation (rather, he was mostly talking at me) for around an hour tying all sorts of subjects that had nothing to do with each other. Sci-Fi movies, Jesus, and penile enhancements. I'll take that over the rich suburbanites bringing all their cars over here for the novelty "urban living" (hint: urban living means making at a least half of your trips without a car). I'm mostly looking forward to the retail spaces that will become available in Ibiza and hopefully, Bollinger.

 

We certainly have our characters here.  If we could bring television cameras in, it'd be a hit sitcom! 

 

We also have new management coming that will [finally] rid the building of undesirables that have brought drugs and trouble to our otherwise quiet place.  Previous management was let go a week ago, if you were within a block of us you may have heard some out front cheering when word got out.  We're all looking forward to those positive changes.

 

Regarding the possibility of retail space- I thought it was an excellent idea and was looking forward to it.  I'd suggest they build the store fronts right into the 1st floor.  We have a little-used lobby, large cafeteria/event room, restrooms, laundry room, TV room, managers office, machine room and of course elevators all on the 1st floor.  I'd suggest moving the laundry room (and our treasured vending machines!) and a small office to a single unit on the 1st floor.  The event room and TV room are wasted space since so few use them, this could be incorporated into a second apartment unit on the 2nd floor making this a 98 unit building. Management conduct their business at other sites, here their office is basically a rent drop box.  All that 1st floor space could be great retail space.  All residents need is the back entrance large enough to get to the elevators (and of course the machine room).

 

Any resident in here would gladly give up the 1st floor if it generated the income to keep our elevators running smoothly.  Currently about twice a day someone gets stuck on one or the other.  :-o

i poked my head in the fencing here when i passed thru town recently. awesome project. reminds me of stuff going up in austin aka the texas columbus.

Construction Zone

Condos leading resurgence in northern half of Short North

Monday,  September 22, 2008 5:21 AM

By Mike Pramik, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

During the Short North's renaissance as one of the city's hot spots, most of the action has been concentrated at one end.  While the arts and entertainment district stretches from Goodale Boulevard north to about 5th Avenue, the shops, bars and restaurants have been clustered between Goodale and 2nd Avenue, at the southern end. But judging by recent developments, the northern section of the Short North is gaining a new direction.

 

A $22.5 million condominium project could emerge as one of the anchors. Construction began last week on Jackson on High, a 46-unit project that will include three buildings, one of which will rise eight stories. "We believe the Jackson is the momentum piece for this end of the district," he said.  Several nearby projects are poised to add to that momentum:

 

• Kroger plans to raze its 27-year-old store at High Street and 7th Avenue next year and replace it with a larger version with frontage on High Street. The project will include a small strip center near 7th Avenue and a small retail space on the 6th Avenue side. The store will be 55,000 square feet, about 20,000 square feet larger than the current store. and would fill in the gap between the Short North and South Campus Gateway.

 

• Developers Don DeVere and the Schottenstein Real Estate Group are building Smith and High, a 12-unit apartment complex and retail project at High Street and 5th Avenue. The building will include space for four retail tenants. DeVere said the project will be completed in November.

 

• Realtor and developer Joe Armeni has refurbished the old Masonic Temple at 1276 High St. into the York on High, a 25-unit condominium building.

 

• Developer David Strause plans to renovate the old Garden Theater into shops and apartments. The project could include an eight-story condominium building to the west of the theater building.

 

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/09/22/ZONE0922.ART_ART_09-22-08_C12_2FBC8PT.html?sid=101

Looks like Bollinger Tower might finally be getting 1st floor retail.  :o I know more than a handful of dull office towers that could use this treatment Downtown.

 

 

 

Weinland Park..."northern half of the Short North."  Christ.

I know. But it might have had something to do with the recent shooting on 8th in WP. That or the Columbus Dispatch doesn't even know the back of their hand like...the back of their hand.

 

 

Allright!  Lots of great High Street development!

 

Weinland Park..."northern half of the Short North."  Christ.

 

The North Short North?

What we should take away from this is the fact that off of Smith & High "sophisticated loft apartments" are being built in Weinland Park and it's a beautiful thing.

Construction Zone: Ibiza next up

Monday, October 6, 2008 - 5:18 AM

By Mike Pramik, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

 

Work on Ibiza Urban Oasis, a nine-story condo building with a private/public parking garage, could be under way this year.  Rajesh Lahoti, with developer Arms Properties, said the company had to redo its building plan because preliminary tests found water about two stories down, where a garage was planned.

 

Lahoti thinks that financing for the project, while difficult to secure in the tight lending environment, will be available even though the company had to go back to the drawing board.  Lahoti said new plans include digging about a story and a half deep to build the garage, which will include 250 private and 250 public spaces.  He is hopeful that the first units will be ready for occupancy in early 2010.

 

Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/10/06/ZONE1006.ART_ART_10-06-08_C12_E0BGAK0.html?sid=101