January 5, 20241 yr Not the greatest pic, but the base is in place: https://ibb.co/r01Hx2b Edited January 5, 20241 yr by amped91
January 19, 20241 yr Yay crane! Too bad it's there to fill in a prime downtown site with a s**tty parking garage and lifeless shack though (Yes I'm still salty about the approved plan) Edited January 19, 20241 yr by NW24HX
January 19, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, NW24HX said: Yay crane! Too bad it's there to fill in a prime downtown site with a s**tty parking garage and lifeless shack though (Yes I'm still salty about the approved plan) It’s worse when their addition to riverside is more urban than the actual urban one
March 4, 20241 yr 30 minutes ago, CbusOrBust said: Peeking up over the fence at Grant! This seems to be moving really quick.
March 4, 20241 yr 36 minutes ago, VintageLife said: This seems to be moving really quick. Lot less foundation work for a two story building....
March 4, 20241 yr 13 minutes ago, Pablo said: Lot less foundation work for a two story building.... Yeah, it’s pretty sad their ORR expansion is a better urban design than their actual downtown expansion. It’s great the commission let this pass through but god forbid someone wants to build a restaurant patio next to a church!! Haha
March 4, 20241 yr I'm going to disagree on ORR being better urban design. It's just bigger. Doesn't front the road. Has a big drop off area. It really doesn't contribute to any sense of urban vibrancy other than being a big building. Much in the way that many office buildings around 270 are situated too.
March 4, 20241 yr 29 minutes ago, DTCL11 said: I'm going to disagree on ORR being better urban design. It's just bigger. Doesn't front the road. Has a big drop off area. It really doesn't contribute to any sense of urban vibrancy other than being a big building. Much in the way that many office buildings around 270 are situated too. I was being a little bit sarcastic, but I think the height alone makes it a little more urban haha
March 26, 20241 yr 20 hours ago, Pablo said: Steel erection at Grant and Oak. So many erections in this city smh...
March 26, 20241 yr 50 minutes ago, columbus17 said: So many erections in this city smh... And super loads
April 17, 20241 yr Commission to Weigh in on New Grant Hospital Building Plans for the second phase of the $400 million Grant Medical Center expansion will be heard by the Downtown Commission next week. Construction is well underway on the first phase of the project – a new medical office building and parking garage at the corner of East State Street and South Grant Avenue – and commissioners have already seen and commented on the overall plan for the campus, which calls for closing a portion of South Sixth Street and building a new Trauma and Critical Care Center at 288 E. Town St. More below: https://columbusunderground.com/commission-to-weigh-in-on-new-grant-hospital-building-bw1/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 18, 20241 yr New renderings released of OhioHealth Grant Medical Center's downtown expansion OhioHealth Corp. aims to start construction in one year for the new inpatient tower in its expansion of Grant Medical Center. The trauma and critical care center will represent the second phase of the $400 million project in downtown Columbus. Construction started in September on the first phase, a 40,000-square-foot family-practice medical office building and a 520-space replacement for the campus' "blue" parking garage. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/04/18/grant-expansion-downtown-columbus-tower.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 19, 20241 yr Absolutely the city should (but won't) object to closing 6th. The blank brick wall at ground level is just insult to injury Somehow the Mayo Clinic manages to span multiple city blocks not much different in size from ours, but does it much more densely, with more activation at ground level and without closing streets for superblocks. But that's impossible here? Sorry I don't buy it Edited April 19, 20241 yr by NW24HX
April 19, 20241 yr 9 minutes ago, NW24HX said: Absolutely the city should (but won't) object to closing 6th. The blank brick wall at ground level is just insult to injury Somehow the Mayo Clinic manages to span multiple city blocks not much different in size from ours, but does it much more densely, with more activation at ground level and without closing streets for superblocks. But that's impossible here? Sorry I don't buy it Mayo has multiple areas of this "superblock" effect where it interrupts 3rd St SW, 1st St SW, 1st St NW, 2nd Ave NW, and 2nd Ave SW. May have better ground-level engagement, sure, but the superblock isn't the bugaboo it's made out to be... if done well.
April 19, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, crimeinal said: Mayo has multiple areas of this "superblock" effect where it interrupts 3rd St SW, 1st St SW, 1st St NW, 2nd Ave NW, and 2nd Ave SW. May have better ground-level engagement, sure, but the superblock isn't the bugaboo it's made out to be... if done well. I will always maintain they should've just moved it - across from the library is the last place the hospital should've been.
April 19, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, columbus17 said: I will always maintain they should've just moved it - across from the library is the last place the hospital should've been. Sure, or integrate it into the area better. Plenty of hospitals with libraries either on their grounds (e.g. academic medical centers) or very nearby. Grant did a disservice with the face the hospital presents to the library. A parking garage and a cut-rate entrance to a hospital which has featured on TV shows, no attempt at trying to streetscape even.
April 19, 20241 yr To be fair, plenty of commercial retail, office, and housing developers would have done the same over the same period of time. Or even the city. Let's look at how Front Street or Marconi interact with City Hall and the Supreme Court. Without unified city and hospital master plan for a specialized district, it's bound to happen.
July 5, 2024Jul 5 2 minutes ago, CbusOrBust said: Few more from Grant It’s not what should have been built, but that 3rd pic makes it look a little less crappy. It kind of matches the library park apartments building, just two stories instead.
July 6, 2024Jul 6 4 hours ago, VintageLife said: It’s not what should have been built, but that 3rd pic makes it look a little less crappy. It kind of matches the library park apartments building, just two stories instead. Honestly, based on the photos, I was thinking the same thing. Still wish it would've been something taller/more architecturally significant and would have maintained S. 6th. St., but I'm kinda digging the way the building is blending into the existing streetscape.
July 10, 2024Jul 10 On 7/5/2024 at 5:31 PM, CbusOrBust said: Few more from Grant I noticed it during many visits to Riverside and now in these pictures - I appreciate that Ohio Health has so much construction going on that they have formalized construction branding. You see it in the fonts for all of the signs, the standard fence banners, and more at each site. I'm sure construction is its own functioning business unit nowadays within Ohio Health.
July 23, 2024Jul 23 OhioHealth receives approval for phase two of Grant Medical Center expansion Grant Medical Center's new trauma and critical care center has been approved by the Downtown Commission. The body approved Tuesday the second phase of OhioHealth's $400 million project in downtown Columbus, giving the project a certificate of appropriateness. Construction started in September on the first phase, a 40,000-square-foot family-practice medical office building and a 520-space replacement for the campus' "blue" parking garage. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2024/07/23/grant-medical-center-expansion.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 30, 2024Jul 30 17 hours ago, CbusOrBust said: Few quick ones of phase one at Grant as I passed by I wish everything in this town got built as quickly as hospitals do. They seem to go up 5x faster than anything else and we weirdly have a lot of recent examples to pull from to see this pattern.
December 13, 2024Dec 13 Not much to say about this one, other than it should not have been approved. Very suburban that is lacking in design/height.
December 13, 2024Dec 13 31 minutes ago, sono4315 said: Not much to say about this one, other than it should not have been approved. Very suburban that is lacking in design/height. I guess a positive is that it will be easy to demo when they need to add something that is actually meant to be in a city.
December 13, 2024Dec 13 With 6BN in profit, they should be REQUIRED to build in the CLASSICAL architecture style. Modernism does not age well (most of the time) and does not contribute to human scale design that gives a community identity.
December 13, 2024Dec 13 9 hours ago, columbus17 said: With 6BN in profit, they should be REQUIRED to build in the CLASSICAL architecture style. Modernism does not age well (most of the time) and does not contribute to human scale design that gives a community identity. It should match the library in some way. What a terrible view you get when leaving the library, which is beautiful inside and out.
December 13, 2024Dec 13 9 hours ago, columbus17 said: With 6BN in profit, they should be REQUIRED to build in the CLASSICAL architecture style. Modernism does not age well (most of the time) and does not contribute to human scale design that gives a community identity. I believe they had 6 billion in revenue and 422 million in profit. Figures are from memory and should be considered approximations.
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