Posted May 4, 200421 yr COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A portion of Grant Medical Center will be imploded Sunday. The implosion can be seen live on NewsChannel 4 and nbc4columbus.com. The hospital plans to bring down the 16-story Baldwin Tower, which is one of the most-recognized landmarks in downtown Columbus, to make room for a new operating facility. The implosion is scheduled for 9 a.m. Demolition experts will rig the 60,000-square-foot structure with explosives and implode the building. The result will be a 20-foot-high pile of rubble. Baldwin Hall, which included the gymnasium and two lower levels, was taken down by conventional methods. The most critical part of the implosion will be to keep the falling tower away from Town Street, NewsChannel 4's Larry Roberts reported. Cables have been attached to the building's walls, so when it is imploded, the walls will be pulled in away from the street. The implosion will be similar to the one at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, which occurred in March. The company imploding the tower also brought down the Philadelphia ballpark and Cinergy Field in Cincinnati. About 2,500 pounds of explosives were loaded into Veterans Stadium's columns. The interior column rows went first, and their falling weight pulled the outer rows to the inside. The explosions continued clockwise around the stadium for about 62 seconds. Crews have been removing materials from the Grant tower that would make the biggest mess during the implosion. According to the hospital, it would take eight weeks and the closure of Sixth and State streets for the building to be removed by conventional methods. The implosion will take 12 seconds. All streets east of Third Street, north of Main Street, west of Washington Avenue and south of Oak Street will be closed to vehicles and pedestrians from 6 a.m. to noon Sunday for the implosion. The Baldwin Tower implosion will be the first in downtown Columbus, according to the hospital. Implosion and debris removal will cost $780,000. Grant officials said the implosion would make room for 18 new operating rooms. Baldwin Tower was built in 1968. It was named after Dr. James Baldwin, who founded Grant Hospital in 1900
May 4, 200421 yr WOW! This is the day AFTER the meet LOL! I cannot believe this lol!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 5, 200421 yr WOW! This is the day AFTER the meet LOL! I cannot believe this lol!!! "The Ohio Forumer Sleepover"! Maybe we can gossip and do each others' hair. :lol:
May 5, 200421 yr Sleepover? First no strip club and now a sleepover with a bunch of dudes? What am I getting myself into with this meet. I best not see a bunch of trannies for forumers.
May 9, 200421 yr did anyone else go? i did. here's the building before from where the police told me to move so i settled on this spot people waiting its starting, two pieces of smoke on the right side ouch! bye bank one and william green buildings are visible now smoky smokier smokiest more smokiest bonus
May 9, 200421 yr Author You can also watch the video feed here: http://cf.nbc4columbus.com/col/sh/videoplayer/video.cfm?id=3284969&owner=col
May 10, 200421 yr @Summit Street - That first pic you posted makes the O"ROURKE sign look like DR. JURKE.
May 10, 200421 yr Cool, I have a nice aerial of that building, is it worth money now? Highstreet you disappoint, why weren't you at the meet?
May 11, 200421 yr @Summit Street - That first pic you posted makes the O"ROURKE sign look like DR. JURKE. that's what i thought it said to also if you scroll the set of pics from the helicopter real fast it looks like a movie......
May 11, 200421 yr dr. jurke hahhaha the sun was really bright that morning and almost everyone that went to see it was standing west of the site looking right at the sun :stupid: the channgel 4 website put up more views of it too with one right next to it.
May 11, 200421 yr Author Cool' date=' I have a nice aerial of that building, is it worth money now? Highstreet you disappoint, why weren't you at the meet?[/quote'] My bad man, I couldn't get off of work plus I got a cold. I feell like shit. I really was looking forward to it but shit happens I guess.
October 31, 200519 yr Grant grows again... Grant ready to add beds Patient volume up at downtown hospital Jeff Bell Business First Grant Medical Center will add 40 inpatient beds by early 2006 as part of its plan to meet demand for services at the downtown Columbus hospital. Also in the works is a conversion of some operating rooms at the Grant South building off East Town Street to help the hospital take on more podiatry surgeries. The two projects, totaling $3 million, reflect the nonprofit hospital's continued ability to attract patients and add physicians in a shifting health-care environment, said John Verbus, Grant's senior vice president for physician relations and business development. "The key has been our medical staff development," he said, noting 34 doctors have been added in the past year. "We continue to be a place physicians want to practice, and patients follow their physicians." Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/10/31/story4.html
January 9, 200718 yr From the 12/8/06 Dispatch: GRAPHIC: What's new PHOTO: Baldwin Tower falls towards its northeast corner during its implosion in 2004. PHOTO: Helping Hands, a sculpture by Omar Shaheed, is placed at the entrance of the new heart and surgical center at Grant at the corner of 6th and E. Town streets. GRANT MEDICAL CENTER Haven of healing Grant prepares to open doors to its new $59 million surgical and heart center Friday, December 08, 2006 Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH It took demolition workers 12 seconds to bring down Baldwin Tower at Grant Medical Center in May 2004. Grant officials are hoping that the nearly 1,000 days it’s taken to build something in its place will be worth the wait. Grant Surgical and Heart Center opens Jan. 2, with a new approach to caring for patients and families that might surprise people who are used to the old Grant hospital. [email protected] http://www.dispatch.com/business-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/12/08/20061208-G1-00.html
July 29, 200816 yr Grant making upgrades to bolster specialties, improve overall facilities Business First of Columbus - by Carrie Ghose Friday, July 25, 2008 | Modified: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 8:00 AM A rebuilt home for its high-profile orthopedics program and a high-tech operating room for blood vessel surgery are among projects adding up to $33 million in construction at Grant Medical Center, just a year after opening a $60 million wing. The downtown Columbus hospital is riding a national wave to overhaul aging facilities, splitting investments between core services like emergency and maternity care and money-makers like orthopedics and plastic surgery. http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/07/28/story1.html?b=1217217600^1674433
March 23, 200916 yr Grant plans face-lift on Town Street Business First of Columbus - by Brian R. Ball Friday, March 20, 2009 Grant Medical Center plans to perform extensive reconstructive and cosmetic surgery on its orthopedic center on East Town Street in Columbus. The OhioHealth Corp. hospital expects the $13.9 million of improvements to its Bone & Joint Center will help it keep its highly regarded orthopedic practice competitive with a growing number of freestanding surgical centers and private hospitals. The renovation will include the addition of two surgical suites to its base of eight. The Bone & Joint Center handled about 8,000 orthopedic and podiatric surgical cases last year and has seen 10 percent annual growth in surgeries over the last five years. "As an orthopedic center, this is one of our top business lines," said Tom Chickerella, Grant's senior vice president of operations. The renovation project "is keeping in line with our orthopedic strategy." Project developer Daimler Group Inc. could begin construction as early as May with completion expected in mid-2010. Grant Medical Center's Bone & Joint Center on East Town Street in Columbus will have a new look once exterior renovations are completed in 2010. The building's brick-and-glass exterior will be refurbished and a new canopy will be constructed. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/03/23/story10.html
February 22, 20169 yr OhioHealth planning expansion at Grant Medical Center downtown OhioHealth Corp. and developer Daimler Group Inc. are proposing an $11 million expansion to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center's fast-growing Bone and Joint Center that opened six years ago across East Town Street from the main hospital. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/02/22/ohiohealth-planning-11m-expansion-at-grant-medical.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 23, 20169 yr More articles about the latest project for the Grant Medical Center downtown campus: - Grant Hospital Plans Downtown Expansion: http://www.columbusunderground.com/grant-hospital-plans-downtown-expansion - Grant Medical Center to spend $33.5 million on expansion: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/02/22/Grant-expansion.html
February 23, 20169 yr Here's another rendering of the proposed building and view of the existing 303 E. Town St. building that would be removed for the new building from http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/02/22/ohiohealth-planning-11m-expansion-at-grant-medical.html ^ The above view shows the existing 303 E. Town Street building, which is next to the OPERS Building near the S. 6th Street & E. Town Street intersection. Here is a Google Streetview link for the same intersection: S. 6th Street & E. Town Street intersection
November 1, 20168 yr ^ The expansion of Grant's Bone and Joint Center is underway at 303 E. Town Street. Late August 2016 photo by http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-august-2016: Photo of the construction site taken from the S. 6th Street & E. Town Street intersection - neighboring OPERS Office Building is in the background:
November 1, 20168 yr Came across this overview of the Grant Medical Center's downtown campus at http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/bizspace/spotlight/gallery/1452/311312?iana=ha_colum_bizspace More at http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/bizspace/spotlight/gallery/1452/311312?iana=ha_colum_bizspace
February 27, 20178 yr Grant Hospital Continues to Expand Downtown Campus Like most hospitals, Grant Medical Center is continuing to grow its campus with continued expansion projects. The latest is the proposed addition of a third floor to the existing main hospital building at the corner of Grant Avenue and State Street. The additional space would accommodate a nursing unit expansion for the facility. More below: http://www.columbusunderground.com/grant-hospital-continues-to-expand-downtown-campus "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 25, 20178 yr OhioHealth expanding Grant Medical Center again, adding new floor with 34 rooms OhioHealth Corp. is adding a fourth floor with additional patient rooms in a wing of its downtown hospital – a $17.4 million project that brings the two-year investment in OhioHealth Grant Medical Center past $50 million. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/03/24/ohiohealth-grant-medical-center-expanding-again.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 25, 20178 yr Update from February on the Bone and Joint Center expansion construction at 303 E. Town Street: http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-february-2017
March 25, 20178 yr This hospital knows how to expand without creating a nuclear blast around it -- at least these days.
August 23, 20177 yr This hospital knows how to expand without creating a nuclear blast around it -- at least these days. There are some decent videos of the 2004 Baldwin Tower implosion on YouTube now. Below is the Ohio Health video showing the implosion, the history of Baldwin Tower, and the Grant Medical Center project that replaced it:
August 23, 20177 yr And speaking of Grant Medical Center projects ... this was approved at yesterday's Downtown Commission meeting: Grant Medical Center Building New Six-Story Parking Garage By Walker Evans, Columbus Underground August 22, 2017 - 10:52 am A new six-story parking garage will soon take the place of a surface parking lot in the Discovery District. Representatives from Grant Medical Center (via OhioHealth Corp. Real Estate) and The Daimler Group submitted plans to the Downtown Commission for a new parking structure at 371 E. Rich St. (southeast intersection of Rich Street and Grant Avenue), which received approval this morning. The new garage would provide 1,050 parking spots for hospital employees, leaving a small area as temporary green space that could be built out in the future. MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/grant-medical-center-building-new-six-story-parking-garage
August 23, 20177 yr Here are the visuals for the new Grant Medical Center parking garage at the southeast corner of Rich Street and Grant Avenue: Aerial view of the project location in relation to Grant Medical Center: -- The orange block is the location of the 6-story, 1050-space parking garage project at the SE corner of Rich & Grant. -- The red block is the current construction site for a 5-story Home2 Suites by Hilton hotel. This hotel will front onto Main Street and is located immediately south of the Grant parking garage project and is separated by Cherry Street (a mid-block alley) - construction photos posted at https://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,419.msg867917.html#msg867917. Another aerial view of the project location: -- The orange outline shows the parking garage site at the SE corner of Rich & Grant. -- The Grant Medical Center main complex is located one block north at the NW corner of Town & Grant. The medical center has two other parking garages in the area (one at the NW corner of Town & Sixth, and one near at SE corner of Town & Grant). -- Part of the Franklin University campus is located across Grant Avenue from this planned parking garage. However, Franklin University is not a part of this project. Franklin uses the many surface lots they own on Rich Street for their students: Aerial view of the 6-story, 1050-space parking garage project at the southeast corner of Rich & Grant. The unbuilt area along Grant Avenue is temporary green space that would accommodate a future building project: Rich Street view of the 6-story, 1050-space parking garage project:
August 23, 20177 yr Although a parking garage is not too exciting, it seems like there could be a couple additional benefits: -freeing up the parking Grant uses in the Commons Garage, allowing for less new parking construction downtown -freeing up other Grant surface lots in the immediate area for development
September 4, 20177 yr Photo of another parking garage project for Grant Medical Center. This one looks like a renovation of the ground floor space on an existing parking garage at the northwest corner of Town & Sixth: Photo posted Sept. 3, 2017 at http://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-cranes-dot-the-skyline-in-downtown-columbus
December 19, 20177 yr I drove by today and it looks like ground has been broke for the parking garage at Rich and Grant.
February 5, 20187 yr I drove by today and it looks like ground has been broke for the parking garage at Rich and Grant. Looks like we'll see another tower crane soon - the tower crane base has been installed for the garage project.
February 5, 20187 yr I drove by today and it looks like ground has been broke for the parking garage at Rich and Grant. Looks like we'll see another tower crane soon - the tower crane base has been installed for the garage project. I was just wondering about this yesterday. Those pesky tower cranes just can't leave Columbus alone can they? ;)
February 5, 20187 yr I drove by today and it looks like ground has been broke for the parking garage at Rich and Grant. Looks like we'll see another tower crane soon - the tower crane base has been installed for the garage project. I was just wondering about this yesterday. Those pesky tower cranes just can't leave Columbus alone can they? ;) May we be cursed with more and more of them. :)
February 5, 20187 yr I drove by today and it looks like ground has been broke for the parking garage at Rich and Grant. Looks like we'll see another tower crane soon - the tower crane base has been installed for the garage project. I was just wondering about this yesterday. Those pesky tower cranes just can't leave Columbus alone can they? ;) May we be cursed with more and more of them. :) The curse seems to have no end in sight!
February 6, 20187 yr I drove by today and it looks like ground has been broke for the parking garage at Rich and Grant. Looks like we'll see another tower crane soon - the tower crane base has been installed for the garage project. I was just wondering about this yesterday. Those pesky tower cranes just can't leave Columbus alone can they? ;) May we be cursed with more and more of them. :) The curse seems to have no end in sight! The View on Pavey Square was also approved for a tower crane.
February 6, 20187 yr I drove by today and it looks like ground has been broke for the parking garage at Rich and Grant. Looks like we'll see another tower crane soon - the tower crane base has been installed for the garage project. I was just wondering about this yesterday. Those pesky tower cranes just can't leave Columbus alone can they? ;) May we be cursed with more and more of them. :) The curse seems to have no end in sight! The View on Pavey Square was also approved for a tower crane. Now if only we could figure out if/when a tower crane will go up for the 9-story Behavioral Health Pavilion at Children's Hospital and the parking garage that is being built with it.
February 6, 20187 yr ^If there's room on the site builders try to use mobile cranes. Tower cranes are more expensive and are usually used when there are site constraints. 80 on the Commons and 250 S High used large crawler cranes. Both of those are Daimler projects and they are known for being frugal.
February 6, 20187 yr ^If there's room on the site builders try to use mobile cranes. Tower cranes are more expensive and are usually used when there are site constraints. 80 on the Commons and 250 S High used large crawler cranes. Both of those are Daimler projects and they are known for being frugal. Children's hospital has generally used tower cranes, even when there is space to operate with a crawler crane. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9522714,-82.9839419,3a,75y,50.52h,95.65t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sBKCPv4SNMOpOdB1uW0eeAg!2e0!5s20110601T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9524141,-82.9875668,3a,75y,337.16h,96.15t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1swvs_imKJxvunoaJEMzUziQ!2e0!5s20160801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
February 7, 20187 yr ^If there's room on the site builders try to use mobile cranes. Tower cranes are more expensive and are usually used when there are site constraints. 80 on the Commons and 250 S High used large crawler cranes. Both of those are Daimler projects and they are known for being frugal. Children's hospital has generally used tower cranes, even when there is space to operate with a crawler crane. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9522714,-82.9839419,3a,75y,50.52h,95.65t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sBKCPv4SNMOpOdB1uW0eeAg!2e0!5s20110601T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9524141,-82.9875668,3a,75y,337.16h,96.15t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1swvs_imKJxvunoaJEMzUziQ!2e0!5s20160801T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Kokosing however does not, most of the operators are "their guys" and they own a lot of crawlers outright, as is seen right across the interstate where the split project is continuing. As much as it would be cool it's not necessary for many different reasons on that site currently.
February 12, 20187 yr I drove by yesterday and noticed that the crane is up for the parking garage. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to snap a picture though.
May 14, 20187 yr Couple of streetviews of the finished Bone and Joint Center expansion at 303 E. Town Street. This Grant property abuts the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) office tower and parking garage next door: View looking east down E. Town Street at the corner of Town & Sixth. The finished 303 E. Town building is on the right. The 303 building takes some architectural cues from the Grant surgery pavilion located across the street and to the left in the image:
July 14, 20186 yr Update on hospital construction at Grant & State. The hospital is adding a fourth floor to their existing building at Grant Avenue and State Street. Below are some older streetviews and a new construction photo of the addition from https://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-july-2018-edition-we1 2016 view from Grant Avenue & State Street: 2017 view of the construction at Grant & State: 2014 view of the hospital building from Grant Avenue: 2017 view of the construction from Grant Avenue: July 2018 construction view from Grant Avenue: https://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-july-2018-edition-we1 --- In the background, the construction of a 9-story apartment building at 330 E. Oak Street is also visible (update at https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,30341.msg926260.html#msg926260)
September 30, 20186 yr ^ Business First reported in late August that this $17.4 million addition of a fourth floor at OhioHealth's Grant Medical Center has now opened: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/08/22/ohiohealth-plans-46m-marion-hospital-expansion.html
September 30, 20186 yr Late August view of Grant Hospital's six-level, 1050-space parking garage under construction at the southeast corner of Rich & Grant: https://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-august-2018-part-1
March 21, 20196 yr Slightly further away view of Grant Hospital's six-level, 1050-space parking garage at the southeast corner of Rich & Grant from CU's construction round-up at https://www.columbusunderground.com/construction-roundup-downtown-franklinton-we1
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