October 27, 20213 yr If it goes much longer it's going to be added to the city's annual Top Ten Eyesores list.
October 27, 20213 yr 1 hour ago, Columbo said: I asked this same question back in April 2019: And that was after other UO posters asked the same question in 2017 and 2018(!) Despite some posters thinking that the project was on the verge of restarting, it never did. So, the developer/property owner running out of money or going out of business seems a likely possibility. Oh wow, it looks like I’ve carried on a UO tradition of sorts then! 😂 Thank you so much for the information! It blows my mind that a different developer hasn’t taken over and finished the property at some point over the last few years, considering how much concrete and steel work has already been completed.
October 27, 20213 yr 16 hours ago, Columbo said: I asked this same question back in April 2019: And that was after other UO posters asked the same question in 2017 and 2018(!) Despite some posters thinking that the project was on the verge of restarting, it never did. So, the developer/property owner running out of money or going out of business seems a likely possibility. An article was posted in Columbus underground in February of 2021 called Hundreds of New Units Approved at Busy Commission meeting which referenced this property. Briefly, the article said a new plan from JDS was approved for the site. Another article was posted in Columbus Biz First in June of 2020 called New Developer Wants to Take Over Abandoned Harrison West Project, which said JDS wanted to buy the property and scrap the bottom level retail idea and make it all apartments. I can’t get my phone to input the links to the articles but a quick google search will find them. Pretty sure I’m the absolute worst millennial in all of existence when it comes to technology, so this is probably a user error on my part. Sorry for the extra steps
October 27, 20213 yr 37 minutes ago, smjjms said: Pretty sure I’m the absolute worst millennial You must be one of those "geriatric millennials" I've seen articles about.
October 27, 20213 yr 42 minutes ago, smjjms said: An article was posted in Columbus underground in February of 2021 called Hundreds of New Units Approved at Busy Commission meeting which referenced this property. Briefly, the article said a new plan from JDS was approved for the site. Another article was posted in Columbus Biz First in June of 2020 called New Developer Wants to Take Over Abandoned Harrison West Project, which said JDS wanted to buy the property and scrap the bottom level retail idea and make it all apartments. Thanks. I missed those articles. Good news if JDS restarts this project.
November 5, 20213 yr The buildings at the southwest corner of King and High are boarded up and the site is fenced. We might see demolition soon.
November 5, 20213 yr 1 minute ago, Pablo said: The buildings at the southwest corner of King and High are boarded up and the site is fenced. We might see demolition soon. Everything is moving right along... So many projects, it's hard to keep track of them all!! & im loving it!
November 5, 20213 yr 31 minutes ago, Pablo said: The buildings at the southwest corner of King and High are boarded up and the site is fenced. We might see demolition soon. Is the old garage still there? I wonder if they were able to find a taker for it.
November 6, 20213 yr 2 hours ago, amped91 said: Is the old garage still there? I wonder if they were able to find a taker for it. It’s still there but parts have been removed.
November 8, 20213 yr King and High Building Will Not be Saved Demolition will begin this week at the corner of King Avenue and North High Street, including the small service station that a local preservation group had hoped to save from the bulldozer. Columbus Landmarks spearheaded an effort to find a user for the building, which has occupied the spot for nearly a century. The organization obtained a commitment from Subtext – the developer of the seven-story mixed-use project planned for the corner – to pay for the relocation of the building, but in the end ran into structural issues that couldn’t be overcome. More below: https://www.columbusunderground.com/king-and-high-building-will-not-be-saved-bw1/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 11, 20213 yr Demolition is underway The service station and Ohio Exterminating are the two piles of rubble.
November 11, 20213 yr Thanks for the update! I’m trying to remember. The facade of the corner building is supposed to be preserved, correct?
November 11, 20213 yr 4 minutes ago, amped91 said: Thanks for the update! I’m trying to remember. The facade of the corner building is supposed to be preserved, correct? I think so, along with the townhouses to the west with the angled facades.
November 11, 20213 yr I never realized that the corner commercial building wrapped around what looks to be a residential building. It was hidden from the street. I imagine that will also be removed to allow for the new construction leaving only the corner building.
November 11, 20213 yr I think the townhomes on King are also being demolished - in the photo above you can see an excavator taking chunks out of the back side of the building. I can't remember if those facades are being saved or not.
November 11, 20213 yr 49 minutes ago, Pablo said: I think the townhomes on King are also being demolished - in the photo above you can see an excavator taking chunks out of the back side of the building. I can't remember if those facades are being saved or not. This photo is from the CU article about this project being approved. It looks like the facade is staying.
November 12, 20213 yr 22 hours ago, VintageLife said: This photo is from the CU article about this project being approved. It looks like the facade is staying. The townhomes were also demolished. Perhaps the new build will include a façade similar to what was there.
November 12, 20213 yr 35 minutes ago, Pablo said: The townhomes were also demolished. Perhaps the new build will include a façade similar to what was there. Hopefully, thank you for the information.
November 29, 20213 yr Demo work for the future King and High development appears to have completed, and the digging has begun here as well.
December 31, 20213 yr Noticed a hot yoga gym would be going into Makley Place called HotWorx. HotWorx posted some progress photos on insta of the inside and included this one of the patio. I still can’t tell if these patios are for the ground floor tenants or if they’re for the residents… but odd to have a patio for a hot yoga gym lol. I will say, feels like a miss not to have them connected to the ground floor retail spaces. I think one retail space even has a garage door connected to the patio. I only have driven by this, so might just take a walk by there sooner or later
January 2, 20223 yr On 12/31/2021 at 11:04 AM, smjjms said: Noticed a hot yoga gym would be going into Makley Place called HotWorx. HotWorx posted some progress photos on insta of the inside and included this one of the patio. I still can’t tell if these patios are for the ground floor tenants or if they’re for the residents… but odd to have a patio for a hot yoga gym lol. I will say, feels like a miss not to have them connected to the ground floor retail spaces. I think one retail space even has a garage door connected to the patio. I only have driven by this, so might just take a walk by there sooner or later Walked by today and looks like the patios are both connected by doors/a garage door to the leasing office. The retail spaces aren’t connected to either. So strange.
January 27, 20223 yr The building at the corner of King & High has been demolished. I noticed over the last month the outer skin, or veneer, had been removed. I wonder if they found the building had structural issues and they’re just going to rebuild it and use the salvaged brick? The vantage point is King just west of High looking southeast towards the Kroger.
January 27, 20223 yr 39 minutes ago, Pablo said: The building at the corner of King & High has been demolished. I noticed over the last month the outer skin, or veneer, had been removed. I wonder if they found the building had structural issues and they’re just going to rebuild it and use the salvaged brick? The vantage point is King just west of High looking southeast towards the Kroger. That’s actually just a common method for incorporating the historic facade into a new building- carefully deconstructing and documenting the existing facade so that it can be put back up on the new building. The Hampton Inn across from the convention center was built in a similar fashion.
January 28, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, .justin said: That’s actually just a common method for incorporating the historic facade into a new building- carefully deconstructing and documenting the existing facade so that it can be put back up on the new building. The Hampton Inn across from the convention center was built in a similar fashion. Yup, that’s true. I was involved with that project back in 1997 or so. There are strange window locations in some of the hotel rooms because the new floor plate didn’t always align with the old floors.
January 29, 20223 yr On 1/18/2019 at 2:57 PM, ColDayMan said: 140-unit apartment project in the University District clears commission A plan to redevelop a former city school property in the University District has cleared its first hurdle. Brent Wrightsel's Vision Development has worked on plans for a mixed-use project on the site of the former Fifth Avenue Elementary in Dennison Place. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/01/18/140-unit-apartment-project-in-the-university.html Makley Place, the 5 to 6-story mixed-use complex at 210 W. 5th Avenue is now welcoming residents and commercial tenants. According to the below linked article, the 140-unit apartment building is about 90% complete and is wrapping up construction, while 44 Makley condominiums are currently rising behind the apartment building: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/01/13/makley.html
February 19, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, Pablo said: Tower crane base at King and High. Hard to see - sorry for the poor photo. What’s the count now 3-4 going up in February?
March 19, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, Pablo said: Tower crane alert at King and High. Oh thank god! Campus has lost a couple tower cranes over the past few days so it’s great to see the supply being replenished in a timely manner.
March 21, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, Pablo said: Tower cranes on High Earlier we were discussing what it's going to look like around here by summer... If you take all the projects currently under construction and add all the projects about to get underway, then take all the current road construction and add all the infrastructure projects (The City of Columbus has at least 87 projects ready to go) that the Biden Infrastructure Law will fund, the entire city is going to basically be one big construction site! We cannot wait to see what this place looks like in 6 or 7 months!! Edited March 22, 20223 yr by Luvcbus
April 10, 20223 yr I had never realized how big the Founders Park development is, until I drove around it today. Most of the SFH appear to be wrapping up construction and the second row of townhomes is now coming up. A little further east on 5th, work on more townhomes as part of the Makley Place development has started.
April 10, 20223 yr 8 minutes ago, amped91 said: I had never realized how big the Founders Park development is, until I drove around it today. Most of the SFH appear to be wrapping up construction and the second row of townhomes is now coming up. A little further east on 5th, work on more townhomes as part of the Makley Place development has started. The single family homes look lovely. I am afraid to ask about how much they will be selling for though. I can't see much regarding color but I can see they at least have some tweaks in the rooflines and gables and all to have some variety and they have that nice older "sturdy" look to them. I am sure they will look great when the landscaping fills in.
April 10, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, Toddguy said: The single family homes look lovely. I am afraid to ask about how much they will be selling for though. I can't see much regarding color but I can see they at least have some tweaks in the rooflines and gables and all to have some variety and they have that nice older "sturdy" look to them. I am sure they will look great when the landscaping fills in. I was in shock seeing how much they wanted for the for sale units in the Quarry Trail development. I’m not even going to look these ones up. 😂
April 10, 20223 yr 39 minutes ago, amped91 said: I was in shock seeing how much they wanted for the for sale units in the Quarry Trail development. I’m not even going to look these ones up. 😂 I looked up some of the townhome units....*sigh*. A mistake. I don't want to know about the SFH amounts.
July 20, 20222 yr 2 hours ago, NorthShore647 said: Kind and High (7-17-22) Makley Place Founders Park Glad you're back to chronical development around town, @NorthShore647!
August 18, 20222 yr Been a minute since we’ve heard about this one. Italian Village developer Kevin Lykens moves forward with redevelopment of Harrison West pipe organ factory “Veteran Italian Village developer Kevin Lykens is moving toward a fall construction start on his redevelopment of a former pipe organ factory. The Bunn-Minnick building, which manufactured and restored pipe organs at 875 Michigan Ave. in Harrison West, closed in 2018. Lykens, owner of Lykens Cos., wants to turn the old factory into apartments. The historic building will have 27 units and a newly built building behind it will have 28 units. There will be a mix of studio, one and two bedroom apartments. Lykens expects the project will cost about $12 million. Columbus City Council approved the rezoning for the project in 2021. Lykens said he's still waiting on permits for the original building part of project, but expects to hear back within the next month or so and break ground this fall. Lykens bought the site in 2018, according to the Franklin County Auditor.” https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/08/18/harrison-west-pipe-organ-factory-kevin-lykens.html
August 18, 20222 yr 2 hours ago, amped91 said: Been a minute since we’ve heard about this one. Italian Village developer Kevin Lykens moves forward with redevelopment of Harrison West pipe organ factory “Veteran Italian Village developer Kevin Lykens is moving toward a fall construction start on his redevelopment of a former pipe organ factory. The Bunn-Minnick building, which manufactured and restored pipe organs at 875 Michigan Ave. in Harrison West, closed in 2018. Lykens, owner of Lykens Cos., wants to turn the old factory into apartments. The historic building will have 27 units and a newly built building behind it will have 28 units. There will be a mix of studio, one and two bedroom apartments. Lykens expects the project will cost about $12 million. Columbus City Council approved the rezoning for the project in 2021. Lykens said he's still waiting on permits for the original building part of project, but expects to hear back within the next month or so and break ground this fall. Lykens bought the site in 2018, according to the Franklin County Auditor.” https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/08/18/harrison-west-pipe-organ-factory-kevin-lykens.html Didn’t even know about this project. It would be awesome if they could transform like 10-15 other old factories into apartments like they did with Wonder Bread. Love the way those loft style apartments look.
August 19, 20222 yr Nice to see that property get some new life, and a full transformation at that. The last thing that it housed was a failed charter school. Apartments are definitely a better use for it. Now if only someone would do something about that unfinished eyesore at 840 Michigan. It sticks out like a sore thumb in a neighborhood that has seen so much new investment during the past decade.
August 19, 20222 yr 19 hours ago, 614love said: Didn’t even know about this project. It would be awesome if they could transform like 10-15 other old factories into apartments like they did with Wonder Bread. Love the way those loft style apartments look. It just makes so much sense. Turn the old factories into super cool loft apartments or condos and manufacturing can move into the new style manufacturing building that are designed for efficiency and to maintain cleanliness way easier than these old buildings that require an insane amount of upkeep now.
August 19, 20222 yr 20 hours ago, 614love said: Didn’t even know about this project. It would be awesome if they could transform like 10-15 other old factories into apartments like they did with Wonder Bread. Love the way those loft style apartments look. I love The Fort building on south high, but damn I wish they turned some of their units into apartments or some for sale units. It is such an amazing building and the space is huge.
August 21, 20222 yr On 8/18/2022 at 8:18 PM, NEOBuckeye said: Now if only someone would do something about that unfinished eyesore at 840 Michigan. It sticks out like a sore thumb in a neighborhood that has seen so much new investment during the past decade. It’s really surprising to me no one has bought that property up and finished construction, especially with how much more expensive materials have been—half the material is already there.
August 21, 20222 yr JDS was supposed to do something with this back in 2021 but I’ve seen nothing since… https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/06/18/halted-harrison-west-development-could-continue-un.html https://columbusunderground.com/hundreds-of-new-units-approved-at-busy-commission-meeting-bw1/
August 25, 20222 yr On 8/21/2022 at 8:59 AM, smjjms said: JDS was supposed to do something with this back in 2021 but I’ve seen nothing since… https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/06/18/halted-harrison-west-development-could-continue-un.html https://columbusunderground.com/hundreds-of-new-units-approved-at-busy-commission-meeting-bw1/ A building permit is under review. It says it's for a 54-unit building with a garage underneath using the existing structure. Edited August 25, 20222 yr by aderwent adding a picture
August 25, 20222 yr Do you know of the timeline for that submission? Just curious if it’s the same one from a year ago, or if the project is actually active
August 25, 20222 yr 26 minutes ago, smjjms said: Do you know of the timeline for that submission? Just curious if it’s the same one from a year ago, or if the project is actually active There was never a building permit from a year ago. This is current.
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