Posted March 21, 200520 yr Anyone know anything about this project? I haven't been to Hilliard in probably 5 years. Anyhow, this PUD was approved in December, and all of the information on it can be found here: http://www.cityofhilliard.com/ed/edr/Carrington%20CD/basepageAPPROVED.htm
September 26, 200519 yr From ThisWeek Newspapers (Hilliard), 9/15/05: Condos are proposed for Britton Central Thursday, September 15, 2005 By PHIL BORGER ThisWeek Staff Writer Virginia Homes, a Central Ohio homebuilder, is proposing to develop a condominium-style community in Hilliard's Britton Central district. Britton Central consists of about 282 acres of land located west of Interstate 270 and east of Wilcox Road, about 2,600 feet north of Davidson Road. http://www.thisweeknews.com/thisweek.php?edition=Hilliard&story=thisweeknews/091505/Hilliard/News/091505-News-11699.html
November 16, 200519 yr From Business First of Columbus, 11/14/05: Firm eyes Dublin for retirement campus Jeff Bell Business First A Maryland company has its eyes on Dublin as a possible site for a continuing-care retirement campus with the potential to create 1,000 jobs in the city. Erickson Retirement Communities LLC has submitted a concept plan to the city and is reviewing the project's feasibility, said Mel Tansill, a spokesman for the Baltimore-based company. Erickson has 13 retirement campuses in eight states and wants to triple that number over the next five years, Tansill said. Dublin would be the company's first Ohio location. Each campus has independent-living apartments, assisted-living units and skilled-nursing facilities, Tansill said. They also feature restaurants, stores, fitness centers and medical centers staffed by Erickson-employed physicians who specialize in geriatrics. Tansill said a typical Erickson campus generates 1,000 jobs and $200 million in construction costs. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/11/14/story1.html
January 31, 200619 yr From the 1/23/06 Business First of Columbus: Dublin debates fitting retirees in tech park Jeff Bell Business First Some Dublin City Council members are wondering if a proposed retirement campus is the best use for a piece of high-profile land along Route 33 on the city's west side. It may be better to save the highway frontage for a company that would better fit with the city's plans for the Central Ohio Innovation Center, a 1,500-acre research and technology park straddling the growing Route 33 corridor, said Councilman Timothy Lecklider. The eastern half of the Innovation Center will include Dublin Methodist Hospital, under construction north of Route 33 at Avery Road, and a continuing-care retirement campus proposed by Baltimore-based Erickson Retirement Communities LLC on the southern side of the highway. Erickson is looking to build as many as 1,500 housing units in a development that has the potential to create as many as 1,000 jobs when it is completed and $200 million in construction spending. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2006/01/23/story2.html
June 12, 200619 yr From Business First of Columbus, 6/12/06: Dublin still skeptical of tax windfall Erickson Retirement Communities is trying to convince Dublin officials its 1,500-unit retirement campus is the best use for a Route 33 site. Business First of Columbus by Jeff Bell Business First Erickson Retirement Communities LLC has lived to fight another day in its struggle to build a 1,500-unit retirement campus along Route 33 on Dublin's west side. After more than an hour of debating the project June 5, City Council sent the proposal to the city's Planning and Zoning Commission, which will review building plans and make a recommendation on a zoning change for the project. Read more at http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2006/06/12/story8.html?from_rss=1
July 20, 200618 yr Third high school expected to have new look ThisWeek Hilliard, 6/29/06 A third Hilliard high school, expected to be built at the intersection of Walker and Roberts roads and ready for operation in the fall of 2009, will have a new look, according to Architect Kent Underwood of Fanning-Howey Associates. While the district is trying to stick close to the Davidson and Darby footprint, Underwood and Bruce Runyon, also of Fanning-Howey, said they have taken the best of both buildings and incorporated those qualities into a 310,000-square-foot plan. Staff members from the other two high schools and members of the Facilities Committee and administration contributed to changes, according to Underwood.
August 21, 200618 yr From ThisWeek Hilliard, 8/17/06: New concept community to join residential, commercial units Thursday, August 17, 2006 By LINDSEY NOCK ThisWeek Staff Writer The Hilliard Planning and Zoning Commission will recommend approval to city council of plans for central Ohio's first work/live condominium community. Trail's Edge Condominiums is slated for a triangle of land off of Cosgray Road. The community would contain ten free-standing units that would be zoned for both residential and commercial use. "There are some of these types of communities in large cities like Chicago or New York, but it's definitely a new concept in central Ohio," said David Parsley, leader of the Parsley team for Ross Realtors, which is representing the development. "It's a live/work zoning, so right from the start a person is allowed to run certain professional business activities, such as an accountant, lawyer or realtor, directly out of the home." Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/?edition=Hilliard&story=thisweeknews/081706/Hilliard/News/081706-News-205232.html
August 29, 200618 yr Hilliard’s new parkway to alleviate I-270 traffic Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Dean Narciso THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Though it’s less than a mile long, the new Britton Parkway will have a big effect on Hilliard development. Just as important, it will help ease traffic along I-270, officials predict. The two-year, $10.3 million project, which connects Dublin, Columbus and Hilliard, and acts as an Outerbelt bypass, was officially completed yesterday morning when the northbound lanes opened. Full story at: http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/08/29/20060829-D1-03.html
August 31, 200618 yr ^^The whole shebang (from Hilliard Cemetary to Riverside Dr) only took 10 years. And it is supposed to continue east to Sawmill Rd.
September 12, 200618 yr From Hilliard Northwest News, 9/6/06: RENDERING: This is an artist's rendition of Tremont Club, a gated condominium community being constructed at Davidson and Leap roads in Hilliard. Development will include condos, offices Condos will be divided into two sections aimed at seniors and a broader market. By KEVIN CORVO Early stages of construction are under way for a gated condominium community named Tremont Club at the southwest corner of Davidson and Leap roads in Hilliard. Schottenstein Real Estate Group purchased 51.5 acres of land at the corner for $5.6 million in June, about the same time Hilliard Planning and Zoning members OK'd a modification of the original planned unit development for the Ansmil parcel. The original development plan called for about 375 single-family residences to be built near Hilliard Tharp Sixth Grade School, but instead the development will contain of mixture of condominiums and professional offices. Read more at http://www.snponline.com/NEWS9-6/9-6_hltremont.htm
October 24, 200618 yr From the 10/23/06 Dispatch: CONSTRUCTION ZONE Hilliard district breaks ground on elementary school Monday, October 23, 2006 Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Work has begun on one of the two new schools being built in the Hilliard school district after voters passed a $75 million bond levy in the spring. Hilliard City Schools is paying Performance Site Management more than $1.8 million to clear 31 acres along Rings Road for a $10 million, 63,000-squarefoot elementary school. Work on a $65 million high school will start next year, district spokeswoman Michelle Wray said. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/business-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/10/23/20061023-F6-01.html
October 30, 200618 yr Condo complex will target retirees ThisWeek Hilliard, 2/23/06 Hilliard City Council passed a resolution recently that will allow for the construction of a large condominium complex that will target a senior population.
January 5, 200718 yr From ThisWeek Hilliard, 12/7/06: Commission to hear Erickson requests Dec. 14 Two planning and zoning meetings set for mid-December Thursday, December 7, 2006 By JEFF DONAHUE ThisWeek Staff Writer Representatives of Erickson Retirement Community are scheduled to appear before the Hilliard Planning & Zoning Commission Dec. 14 with a pair of requests related to the company's proposed 80-acre Hilliard retirement community. Commission members will meet twice this month. The first meeting will take place at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 14. The second will be held at 6 p.m., Monday, Dec. 18. Both meetings will take place in council chambers of the Hilliard Municipal Building, 3800 Municipal Way. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/index.php?sec=hilliard&story=sites/thisweeknews/120706/Hilliard/News/120706-News-273266.html
January 5, 200718 yr From the 12/10/06 Dispatch: Retirement community has skeptics in Hilliard, too Dublin refused company’s request to build Sunday, December 10, 2006 Dean Narciso THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Hilliard officials have similar reservations about a proposed retirement community that Dublin leaders rejected. Hilliard Mayor Donald Schonhardt said he’s willing to listen to the pitch by Erickson Retirement Communities, which wants to open a retirement campus on 75 acres along Britton Parkway. But he said property taxes for Hilliard schools must be protected. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/12/10/20061210-C4-00.html
January 5, 200718 yr From ThisWeek Hilliard, 12/21/06: Erickson proposals tabled until P&Z meeting on Jan. 11 City staff, developer request more time to work on plan details Thursday, December 21, 2006 By JEFF DONAHUE ThisWeek Staff Writer Members of the Hilliard Planning & Zoning Commission voted unanimously Thursday night to table two cases related to the proposed Erickson at Ansmil retirement community until the commission's Jan. 11 meeting. Erickson representatives made a one-hour presentation during Thursday night's meeting and answered questions from commission members. He then asked that the cases be tabled until Jan. 11 in order to work out details of the plan with city staff. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/index.php?sec=hilliard&story=sites/thisweeknews/122106/Hilliard/News/122106-News-281707.html
March 6, 200718 yr From ThisWeek Hilliard, 1/11/07: Erickson at Ansmil retirement community Development staff supports project Thursday, January 11, 2007 By JEFF DONAHUE ThisWeek Staff Writer One of the biggest economic development proposals in Hilliard history will return to the Planning & Zoning Commission agenda Thursday night with the support of the Hilliard Development Department staff. According to an advance copy of the staff report for Thursday night's meeting, city staff will recommend approval of two applications related to the 80-acre, Erickson at Ansmil retirement community, a project Mayor Don Schonhardt said represents a minimum of $140-million in taxable valuation. Hilliard Economic Development Director David Meeks said actual construction costs for the project could be in the $200-million-to-$215-million range. Maryland-based Erickson Retirement Communities is planning an 80-acre, campus-style retirement community off Leap Road between Davidson Road and Reynolds Drive. Erickson officials say the project will create between 800 and 1,000 full-time jobs and an annual payroll of as much as $30-million. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/index.php?sec=hilliard&story=sites/thisweeknews/011107/Hilliard/News/011107-News-290004.html
March 6, 200718 yr From ThisWeek Hilliard, 2/8/07: Erickson proposals return to P&Z Feb. 8 Thursday, February 8, 2007 By JEFF DONAHUE ThisWeek Staff Writer The return of a pair of applications related to the proposed 80-acre Erickson Retirement Community highlights the Feb. 8 agenda for the Hilliard Planning & Zoning Commission. While Erickson representatives and city staff were still ironing out final details at press time, Hilliard's development department is expected to recommend the applications be approved Thursday night. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/?story=sites/thisweeknews/020807/Hilliard/News/020807-News-302668.html
March 6, 200718 yr From ThisWeek Hilliard, 2/15/07: Analysis supports Erickson plan Thursday, February 15, 2007 By JEFF DONAHUE ThisWeek Staff Writer According to findings included in an independent economic analysis, the proposed Erickson Retirement Community development represents a significant improvement over the 1998 Ansmil Development plan that was largely dependent on office development. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/?story=sites/thisweeknews/021507/Hilliard/News/021507-News-306158.html
March 24, 200718 yr From the 3/23/07 Dispatch: * GRAPHIC: Hilliard facts * PHOTO: Space problems at Beacon Elementary School in Hilliard force fifth-grade horn player Maddy Schulz and other band members to practice in a school entrance. FRED SQUILLANTE DISPATCH HILLIARD TAXPAYERS KEEP FOOTING THE BILL School funding: Is it fixed? Friday, March 23, 2007 Jim Siegel THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Chances are, when you woke up on Election Day in the Hilliard school district during the past eight years, you could plan to vote on a school levy. The rapidly growing district has been on the ballot in six of those years. Since 1991, voters have approved four operating levies and four bond issues and defeated eight other levies. A decade ago, Hilliard levied the seventh-highest taxes among Franklin County districts. Now, it ranks third. And officials expect to return to the ballot again no later than May 2008 to ask for yet another levy. Why so often? Officials say they remain victims of the state's continued reliance on local property taxes to fund schools - a lingering complaint from education advocates who say the state never fully addressed the problems highlighted 10 years ago this week by the Ohio Supreme Court. MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/03/23/20070323-A1-03.html
March 27, 200718 yr Hilliard closer to approving $200M retirement community project BY JEFF BELL | [email protected] March 23, 2007 IMAGE: Hilliard officials believe the Erickson retirement community would spur development in the surrounding Ansmil district. Courtesy Bird Houk Collaborative HILLIARD - With a new economic analysis in hand, Hilliard officials appear poised to approve Erickson Retirement Communities LLC's plan to build a 1,700-unit campus for seniors along Interstate 270. Two key pieces of legislation needed to advance the proposed $200 million project are expected to come before Hilliard City Council March 26, said council President Bill Uttley. One would create a tax increment financing district to pay for road and infrastructure improvements. The other would modify the planned unit development zoning at the 70-acre site in the Ansmil development south of Davidson Road. Should council approve the legislation, Erickson may finally have found a home for its first retirement campus in Central Ohio, at the same time providing Hilliard with an anchor to spur development in the potentially lucrative Ansmil district. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2007/03/26/story2.html?i=76263&b=1174881600^1436122
June 6, 200718 yr From Business First of Columbus, 6/4/07: Skilken poised to put up offices, stores on Hilliard connector road Business First of Columbus - June 1, 2007 by Brian R. Ball Business First Skilken Development LLC plans to annex 125 acres in Norwich Township into Hilliard for a deal that's also expected to expand soccer fields at the neighboring Hilliard Municipal Park. The Columbus developer has filed a petition to annex the Jerman family property at 6287 Scioto Darby Creek Road, which it has in contract to buy. Hilliard Development Director David Meeks said the proposed annexation would clear the way for a retail and office park of about 85 acres along a planned connector street between Cosgray and Alton Darby Creek roads. Meeks said the plan also calls for the city to swap 30 acres where the Hilliard Ohio Soccer Association operates 30 fields for 60 acres of the Jerman property abutting Hilliard Municipal Park. More at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2007/06/04/story7.html
June 18, 200717 yr From ThisWeek Hilliard, 3/8/07: Designers of Britton Parkway win award Thursday, March 8, 2007 By JEFF DONAHUE ThisWeek Staff Writer The construction of Britton Parkway, which includes two roundabout intersections, met two important needs -- providing access for 750 employees to the new BMW Financial Services headquarters and opening the way for the new Britton Central mixed use development. The $10-million project included two roundabout intersections, a 4-lane, 100-foot bridge and more than 4,000 feet of roadway as well as the extension of city water and sewer lines and landscaping. http://www.thisweeknews.com/?story=sites/thisweeknews/030807/Hilliard/News/030807-News-315956.html
June 18, 200717 yr Hilliard and Dublin are the same city to me. I really can't tell the difference between the two, and I want to be able to really badly. Everything just kinda blends in together for me... but I'm not a resident, just someone that goes to each city occasionally because I have family on the far west side. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't really see how this is so "pedestrian friendly" the way the land use is separated. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. Still too suburban for my taste. I say we put an end to all these ugly ass subdivision streets that look like giant tape worms.
July 3, 200915 yr Sales halting at Hilliard retirement complex Friday, June 26, 2009 By Dean Narciso, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Hilliard's Hickory Chase development was the most ambitious and costly the city had seen in years, but some fear the unfinished retirement complex is on the brink of failure. The first phase of the $288 million project was to include a community center and 145 residential units, with more than 800 more residences to be built in the next few years. Last month, Erickson Retirement Communities announced that financing problems had temporarily halted construction on the 80-acre development. And this week, word has come that its marketing center will close next month. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/06/26/hickchase.ART_ART_06-26-09_A8_G3E9V25.html
July 5, 200915 yr BREAKING NEWS Hickory Chase project in foreclosure Sunday, July 5, 2009 - 12:08 AM By JEFF DONAHUE, Hilliard Community Editor A little more than a week after announcing an "indefinite" construction delay at its Hickory Chase development in Hilliard, an Erickson Retirement Communities spokesman announced the project is in foreclosure. In a letter to Hilliard Mayor Don Schonhardt dated July 2, Erickson spokesman Steven Montgomery said Erickson has been unsuccessful in resolving issues with Key Bank, the lender for the project. "We have been informed by the lender for our Hickory Chase project that despite efforts to resolve financial issues, the lender has commenced a foreclosure proceeding that will result in us not being able to open Hickory Chase and end our management of the property in Hilliard," Montgomery wrote. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/hilliard/stories/2009/07/01/Hickory_Chase_update.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=104
July 7, 200915 yr Retirement center now at standstill Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 3:08 AM By Elizabeth Gibson, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Just weeks from being ready for its first tenants, the massive $289 million Hickory Chase retirement center in Hilliard has gone into foreclosure. For now, the ducks in the ponds will be the only residents on the 80-acre property. Hilliard’s development director, David Meeks, said the project would have been “a cruise ship on land” — a self-contained community with 1,500 residential units, a hair salon, a cafeteria, a gym, medical services and more. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/07/07/Hickory_Chase.ART_ART_07-07-09_A1_U8ED9S6.html
July 14, 200915 yr Hickory Chase’s bankers hold out hope for revival Key-led consortium looking for someone willing to take up project Business First of Columbus - by Brian R. Ball Friday, July 10, 2009 Foreclosure on the unfinished Hickory Chase retirement community in Hilliard has left a trail of red ink even as lenders involved in the development vow to sell the 83-acre project to another developer. A consortium of six banks, led by Cleveland-based KeyBank, filed a lawsuit July 2 to wrest control of the project from Baltimore-based Erickson Retirement Communities LLC and its Columbus Campus LLC affiliate. The banks alleged the company defaulted on terms of a $90 million construction loan. The foreclosure action filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court capped six weeks of uncertainty over Hickory Chase’s future. The developer halted construction of the planned 1,529-unit retirement community in mid-May citing unspecified “financing issues.” On June 23, Erickson told Hilliard officials it was closing its sales office as it put further construction on indefinite hold. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/07/13/story3.html
November 9, 200915 yr Safety of roundabouts debated in Hilliard Monday, November 9, 2009 3:04 AM By Dean Narciso THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Hilliard has proposed building two roundabouts at this triangular intersection. But others have concerns about safety, especially considering the number of schools close by. Traffic experts, engineers and some city officials promote roundabouts as easy to navigate, good for the environment and safe for motorists and pedestrians. Others, including some school administrators, parents and people who like to walk, have their doubts about the increasingly popular traffic circles. Full story at: http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/09/pedsafety.ART_ART_11-09-09_B1_60FJLP3.html?sid=101
December 28, 200915 yr A couple of recent articles about the purchase of Erickson, the nationwide retirement community builder who started a massize project in Hilliard, and the prospects for the new purchaser to complete the unfinished 1,529-unit Hickory Chase development in the City of Hilliard. First, the article from Business First. Stalled Hickory Chase development may get reprieve Business First of Columbus Thursday, December 24, 2009 Baltimore’s Redwood Capital Investments LLC will pay $365 million in cash to purchase virtually all of the assets of Erickson Retirement Communities, the troubled developer of the unfinished Hickory Chase retirement community in Hilliard. Redwood Capital chief Jim Davis said the company intends to develop Erickson’s communities, including those whose construction had been halted during the downturn. Erickson halted construction this year on the planned 1,529-unit Hickory Chase retirement community and in June told Hilliard officials it was closing its sales office as it put further construction on indefinite hold. Davis couldn’t say when the construction would resume or how much money he plans to invest in the communities. Erickson’s plan is subject to court approval. Full story at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/12/21/daily24.html?surround=lfn
December 28, 200915 yr And the article from the Columbus Dispatch... Stalled retirement community has new owner Friday, December 25, 2009 - 3:07 AM By Steve Wartenberg, The Columbus Dispatch The company behind the stalled Hickory Chase senior-center project in Hilliard has a new owner, but it's too early to say whether that will be enough to get work started again. Redwood Capital Investments bought Erickson Retirement Communities, which recently had filed for bankruptcy, for $365 million in a lengthy auction that ended early Wednesday. Redwood, based in Baltimore, would not give specifics on individual Erickson projects and retirement centers, including Hickory Chase, where construction was shut down in June. Hickory Chase is on 80 acres and has been called a "cruise ship on land" by Hilliard officials. The plans for the self-contained community called for 1,500 residential units, a hair salon, cafeteria, gym and medical services. "Hopefully, this will mean good things for the Hilliard project, but right now, we don't know the sale's impact on the campus," said David Meeks, Hilliard's director of economic development. Full story at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/12/25/Retirement_Community.ART_ART_12-25-09_A10_FKG3KUR.html
March 8, 201015 yr Latham Park Development forwarded to Hilliard council Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 2:21 PM By Gary Budzak, ThisWeek Contributor The city planning, projects and services committee of Hilliard City Council recommended an ordinance on March 1 that would allow development in the area around Latham Park. The development -- to be known as The Square at Latham Park -- would rezone 33.8 acres on the north side of Scioto Darby Road at Alton Darby Road, east of Dulcet Lane (in the Hampton Reserve development) and west of Cosgray Road. The development would accommodate an age-restricted apartment building, office and retail buildings, as well as improvements to Latham Park. In addition, Ohio State University would be involved with the park, according to the developer. "Ohio State is going to make it a true educational park, with a boardwalk, plants, placards, so somebody walking along can have a real understanding of wetlands," said Michael Crowley of MJC Holdings LLC. "They want to teach classes next fall and bring their graduate students. Their crop science and horticulture departments are very excited about it." FULL ARTICLE: http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/hilliard/stories/2010/03/03/0304hicouncil-devel_ln.html?sid=104
March 9, 201015 yr "Ohio State is going to make it a true educational park, with a boardwalk, plants, placards, so somebody walking along can have a real understanding of wetlands," said Michael Crowley of MJC Holdings LLC. I wonder if it'll teach anything about the impact of urban sprawl on wetlands?
March 9, 201015 yr "Ohio State is going to make it a true educational park, with a boardwalk, plants, placards, so somebody walking along can have a real understanding of wetlands," said Michael Crowley of MJC Holdings LLC. I wonder if it'll teach anything about the impact of urban sprawl on wetlands? That's certainly a good point. But, counter-intuitively, agricultural land uses have had an even greater negative impact on the Big Darby Creek and its tributary streams. Formerly meandering tributary streams were routinely dredged and straightened for farm field drainage. Pesticide runoff and sedimentation from farmland were major sources of water quality degradation. Ironically, some urban developments like this one, and other restoration projects posted here and here in the Big Darby Creek Accord section, are actually returning these tributary streams to a more natural state.
March 12, 201015 yr Rezoning along Clover Groff Run criticized Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 6:13 PM By Gary Budzak, ThisWeek Contributor A member of the Darby Accord advisory panel has expressed his concerns to Hilliard City Council over the proposed rezoning of property for a development along Clover Groff Run. In a letter dated March 8, panel member John Tetzloff wrote that the panel gave "conditional" approval to The Square at Latham Park and Alton Commons developments last November "only if significant changes were made to the plan." Tetzloff listed four conditions: • "There be no net loss of Tier 1 open space." • "There be no net loss of groundwater recharge on the site." • "All comments and concerns of the Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District be addressed." • "The open space on the property follow the definitions of open space in the Accord." Tetzloff wrote that "Hilliard staff made the argument that because Clover Groff Run would be restored on the site they should not have to follow the other elements of the Accord plan. However, the panel disagreed, especially with respect to the net loss of natural open space and groundwater recharge." The Big Darby Accord is a plan to protect the Big Darby Creek and its tributaries, among them Clover Groff Run. Ten jurisdictions, including the cities of Columbus and Hilliard, have cooperated with the Accord. FULL ARTICLE: http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/hilliard/stories/2010/03/03/Clover-Groff-Run.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=104
April 13, 201015 yr Consultant hired for fairgrounds study Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 11:29 AM By GARY BUDZAK, ThisWeek Contributor The Franklin County Fairgrounds is a step closer to becoming a satellite location for the All-American Quarter Horse Congress. On March 30, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution authorizing a $75,000 contract for professional consulting services with local firm Kinzelman Kline Gossman on a feasibility study for a multipurpose center to host equestrian events at the Franklin County Fairgrounds. The city of Hilliard has agreed to contribute $5,000 toward the cost of the study and the Franklin County Agricultural Society, which owns the fairgrounds, will pitch in $10,000. In February, the commissioners authorized the Department of Economic Development and Planning to complete a plan for an indoor arena and other improvements on the fairgrounds to house additional Quarter Horse Congress events. Franklin County Agricultural Society secretary Tim Shade said the study will look into building a 6,500-seat indoor arena for the Congress' cattle-chasing events, as well as facilities to house 300 cows and 1,000 horses over the course of a month. The arena, which would have a dirt floor to ride horses on, will also need to be versatile enough to hold a variety of events the other 11 months of the year. The study is scheduled to be complete by Aug. 30, 2010. Full article: http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/hilliard/stories/2010/04/07/0408hifairgrounds-study_ln.html?sid=104
April 13, 201015 yr Consultant hired for fairgrounds study Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 11:29 AM By GARY BUDZAK, ThisWeek Contributor Full article: http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/hilliard/stories/2010/04/07/0408hifairgrounds-study_ln.html?sid=104 Some more about the Franklin County Fairgrounds arena proposal and study from the Dispatch. Need for Hilliard arena up for debate Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 2:52 AM By Marla Matzer Rose THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH A proposal to build a new arena at the Franklin County Fairgrounds, ostensibly to keep All American Quarter Horse Congress events in the area, has some local tourism executives scratching their heads. Some worry that another arena would compete with existing venues for a limited pool of events. And officials of the Quarter Horse Congress say there's no truth to statements that the group has threatened to leave or was outgrowing its Ohio Expo Center space for the event that attracts more than 160,000 people to Columbus each year. Tim Shade, manager Franklin County Agricultural Society, which runs the county fairgrounds, thinks livestock shows, trade expos and amateur basketball tournaments would be the bread and butter of his hoped-for county fairgrounds arena. No decision will be made on the proposed arena until a study is delivered to county commissioners in late August, said James Schimmer, the county's economic development director. "We see a niche in economic development for agriculture, local foods and animal husbandry. We're looking at a facility that's fitting for the Quarter Horse Congress but can also dress up and go out at night," he said. "But if it comes back that it doesn't make any sense, we won't go forward." GRAPHIC COMPARING FIVE EXISTING ARENA VENUES IN COLUMBUS AND THE PROPOSED FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS ARENA Full article: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2010/04/07/need-for-hilliard-arena-up-for-debate.html
July 17, 201212 yr City Council approves plan for 'gateway' development By Kevin Corvo, ThisWeek Community News Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 5:16 PM Construction of a mixed-use retail, office and residential development on a 56-acre parcel at the northwest corner of Cemetery Road and Britton Parkway will proceed as planned after Hilliard City Council approved the plan July 9. An 84,000-square-foot Giant Eagle store and a 450-unit residential complex will be the anchors of the development, along with several medical offices, restaurants, a gas station and other ancillary projects. (. . .) OhioHealth plans a groundbreaking for its medical office before the end of the year and some of those tenants, as well as others in the development, will open in 2013. The Giant Eagle store likely would not open until 2014. MORE: http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/hilliard/news/2012/07/10/city-council-approves-plan-for-gateway-development.html
July 17, 201212 yr More about the above development project from Business First. Below is a Franklin County GIS map showing the location of the former Dana Corp property. (It's located just west of the I-270 intersection that takes you to the Mill Run development - which is on the east side of I-270) Also below is the development site plan submitted by Continental Real Estate. I've rotated the plan 90 degrees so that north is up and it aligns with the GIS property map. Hilliard’s former Dana plant site getting Giant Eagle, apartments Business First by Brian R. Ball, Staff reporter Date: Friday, July 13, 2012, 6:00am EDT The site of the former Dana Corp. truck and auto parts plant in Hilliard will become the home of a new Giant Eagle, office properties and a Lifestyle Communities apartment complex. Hilliard City Council approved three pieces of legislation for the $79 million mixed-used project led by developer Continental Real Estate Cos. during the panel’s July 9 meeting. David Meeks, Hilliard’s economic development director, said the project off Britton Parkway north of Cemetery Road consists of an 84,000-square-foot Giant Eagle, another 13,600 square feet of adjacent retail, two 45,000-square-foot, Class A office properties, a 9,600-square-foot office property and up to 450 apartments. (. . .) The rezoning of the 55-acre property ends a 10-year drive to redevelop the site that REIT First Industrial LP of Chicago has owned since 1997. Toledo-based Dana announced it was closing its facility on the property in 2002. MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/print-edition/2012/07/13/hilliards-former-dana-plant-site.html The former Dana Corp property is bordered by a railroad line to the west, a small creek to the north, Britton Parkway to the east and narrows down to Cemetery Road to the south.
July 17, 201212 yr I remember reading about this project in the Dispatch awhile back and some the quotes from Hilliard officials were that they wanted to try to attract young professionals with new, denser development. And then they come out with this site plan that consists of 60-70% surface parking and has absolutely zero urban qualities otherwise. This is pretty much the exact opposite of what attracts the urban-minded young professional and is just more of the same suburban-style building. Hilliard could learn a few things from it's northern neighbor.
January 29, 201312 yr From the ThisWeekNews article "Goals old and new on the horizon for Hilliard in 2013", the Mayor of Hilliard outlined what he believes are the two main developments for Hilliard in 2013. Revitalizing Old Hilliard - Mayor Schonhardt said, "We are off to a great start with First Responders Park (dedicated in 2010), but are still waiting for Hilliard Station Park." No funding for the park was included in the capital-improvements budget City Council approved for 2013, but funding for a portion or all of it remains possible. Hilliard Station Park would be built in the footprint of the former Russell Grain Co. silos that were demolished in 2009 at the northwest corner of Main and Center streets. The park, which would celebrate the city's railroad heritage, would be built across the street from First Responders Park. The construction of Hilliard Station Park and the private development of a proposed performing arts center are key elements to spurring economic development in Old Hilliard, Schonhardt said. The catalyst for transforming Old Hilliard into a vibrant downtown area, he said, is a proposed commercial, retail and residential development at the corner of Franklin Street and Cemetery Road, near the Starliner Diner and an inoperable grain elevator and silo. An extension of a bike trail and walking path would connect Old Hilliard to the new development. Franklin Street would be improved and aligned with Luxair Drive, creating a signalized intersection and a new access road from Cemetery Road to Main Street in Old Hilliard. The $15 million to $18 million project also would require the relocation of the Starliner Diner and demolition of the grain elevator and silo. 'Gateway' to Hilliard - Construction will begin in 2013 on the Villages at Britton Parkway (aka the Gateway Development discussed earlier). An 84,000-square foot Giant Eagle store, medical offices, restaurants and apartments are planned for the 56-acre parcel at the northwest corner of Britton Parkway and Cemetery Road, which many city officials consider the "gateway to Hilliard." The development likely will be the first of several others along Britton Parkway from Cemetery Road north to Davidson Road and eventually along the east side of Britton Parkway north to Hayden Run Road.
September 26, 201311 yr The Hickory Chase apartment complex, first reported here back in 2007 in this thread, finally got its first phase sold off in court: Hickory Chase complex, built for $30+ million, sells for $8.26 million at auction By Brian R. Ball, Staff reporter Business First - Aug 22, 2013, 12:33pm EDT The unfinished first phase of the Hickory Chase retirement community sold at auction for $8.26 million Thursday with Columbus distressed real estate investor Alex Dorsey as the sole bidder. The bid topped the minimum $7.99 million price by $27,000 during the brief auction in Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Holbrook’s chambers. The property fell into foreclosure in 2009 as Maryland’s Erickson Retirement Communities LLC neared the end of the $34 million first phase, which has 145 unfinished residential units. The lawsuit followed disagreement between a bank consortium led by KeyBank and the developer whether to continue the project in the midst of the global financial crunch that had started in the fall of 2008. Dorsey said redevelopment plans are in the works. MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2013/08/hickory-chase-complex-built-for-30.html
September 26, 201311 yr Meanwhile, the Bo Jackson Elite Sports Center, a 114,000 square foot domed sports training facility, broke ground earlier this week in Hilliard. More about this from Columbus Underground and Business First: Columbus Underground: Bo Jackson’s Elite Sports Center Breaks Ground in Hilliard Business First: Bo Jackson’s sports-training center in Hilliard finally breaking ground Business First: Bo knows his training center in Hilliard will succeed – SLIDESHOW
January 15, 201411 yr ThisWeekNews looks at developments in Hilliard for 2014: http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/hilliard/news/2014/01/02/meeks-2014-will-be-good-development-year.html - Among the more urban of developments expected to begin construction in 2014 is Landmark Lofts, a mixed-use commercial and residential development at the corner of Cemetery Road and Franklin Street, adjacent to its historic downtown district. According to the article, Landmark Lofts will have four buildings. Three of which will have four floors with the fourth building having three floors. All four buildings will have apartments on the upper floors with retail stores and restaurants on the ground floor. Landmark Lofts would have 171 apartments and 17,000 square feet of commercial development. A vacant grain elevator on the site would be converted into a 7,000-square-foot community center. - The Gateway development at the northwest corner of Cemetery Road and Britton Parkway is beginning to finish up its construction. OhioHealth opened an urgent-care center at the site in part of a 45,000-square-foot medical office building that was completed in December. A second 45,000-square-foot medical office building is expected to be completed by October 2014. The development's 84,000-square-foot Giant Eagle supermarket is expected to open in June 2014. And the development's 450 apartments are expected to begin leasing by the end of summer.
February 27, 201411 yr More about the residential portion of the Gateway development that was mentioned in the previous post and previously posted here with a site plan. The 450 apartment units are being built by Lifestyle Communities and is being called Brooklands. The Lifestyle Communites website is at http://lifestylecommunities.com/lc-brooklands/overview
February 27, 201411 yr Construction photo updates for the Brooklands residential part of Hilliard's Gateway project are at http://lifestylecommunities.com/blog/?p=934 and at the LC Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lifestylecommunities/photos_stream. Below are two construction photos and a rendering of the project from the LC Brooklands website:
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