August 2, 200816 yr Biblical Bar-B-Q? Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 3 Jn 2 NKJV
August 2, 200816 yr I think this photo from "City Creek" in SLC is exactly what the existing City Center structure could look like with the skylight roof ripped off and a bit of a resurfacing through the "inside" to turn it into an "outside". <img src="http://www.downtownrising.com/city_creek/images/conceptual_rendering_med.jpg"> More details here: http://www.downtownrising.com/city_creek/index.php
August 2, 200816 yr Just add in some WET fountains and bam, The Grove Los Angeles. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 4, 200816 yr [ I think this photo from "City Creek" in SLC is exactly what the existing City Center structure could look like with the skylight roof ripped off and a bit of a resurfacing through the "inside" to turn it into an "outside". <img src="http://www.downtownrising.com/city_creek/images/conceptual_rendering_med.jpg"> More details here: http://www.downtownrising.com/city_creek/index.php Totally agree! Combine this kind of physical redevelopment concept with Walker's 12-step recovery plan for the City Center Mall posted previously here and at http://walker.columbusunderground.com/?p=104, and we've got a plan for the future.
August 7, 200816 yr yes, yes. That's exactly what I meant. The last thing we should do is replace WalkerEvans with John Mayer on here. He's the biggest pessimist.Next thing you know he writes a local remix "Waiting on Columbus to change" and we'll all be like 'thanks Jeremy, it was your wonderful idea that started all this!
August 21, 200816 yr CONSTRUCTION ZONE Retailers shunning Downtown Monday, April 7, 2008 6:28 AM By Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Amy Taylor, a spokeswoman for the development corporation, said it's working on a plan for City Center and expects to have details "in May or June." http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/04/07/ZONE0407.ART_ART_04-07-08_C10_DU9QVOI.html?sid=101 NBC 4: What Is The Plan For City Center? Monday, Aug 18, 2008 - 05:04 PM, Updated: 05:56 PM By Denise Yost, nbc4i.com COLUMBUS, Ohio -- City Center was once the crown jewel of Columbus. A bustling shopping center that attracted millions of shoppers to Downtown Columbus every year -- is now nearly empty, NBC 4's Mike Jackson reported. FAST FACTS: When the City of Columbus took over the mall in October 2007, residents were promised a plan that would fill the 152,000 square feet of vacant shops and 12 acres of unused lots. Ten months later, residents are still waiting for a plan that was part of the promise to reinvigorate the city. Mayor Michael Coleman has handed a challenge to the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation: What can you do with prime downtown space? The location still offers plenty of economic potential, but only if the right development is planned in the space. Discussions of residential and business development and the creation of office space have dominated discussions of the downtown location. Summer was the self-imposed dead for some kind of announcement on the future of the site, but we're in the dwindling weeks of summer without a plan. While talks continue with developers, NBC 4 was told that there is "nothing new to report." Columbus Downtown Development Corporation home page: www.downtowncolumbus.com Link to video at http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/news.apx.-content-articles-CMH-2008-08-18-0026.html Looks like the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation and its CEO Guy Worley are dropping the ball on the City Center Mall redevelopment. While at same time the CDDC is doing this... Developers kick out tenants of Downtown's Trautman Building Structure to be emptied so it can be assessed, inspected Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 3:04 AM By Mark Ferenchik, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/08/16/JEWELERS.ART_ART_08-16-08_C12_BCB1RRE.html?sid=101
August 23, 200816 yr When your landlord switches you over to a month-to-month lease it's usually a pretty good indicator that you need to start looking for a new place.
September 5, 200816 yr The City Center Mall continues to drip drip drip...into oblivion. With no redevelopment plan from Cap South/CDDC anywhere in sight. Downtown bookseller to close doors: Waldenbooks was last major retailer at City Center Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 8:52 PM By Marla Matzer Rose THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Columbus City Center is losing its last major chain store, as Waldenbooks prepares to close its location in the once-bustling Downtown mall. The bookstore posted a notice this week advising shoppers its last day of operation will be Sept. 13. Most merchandise was marked down between 40 percent and 75 percent. Business was brisk today, with many people buying multiple items. An employee referred questions about the closing to the company's corporate headquarters in Michigan. A spokesman could not be reached late this afternoon. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/09/04/citycenter.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101&title=Downtown+bookseller+to+close+doors
September 6, 200816 yr You mean it's still open?!?! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 7, 200816 yr You mean it's still open?!?! LMAO.... same thing I was thinking but only reason I even go out to Brice Rd is JCPenny Outlet and Magic Mountain
September 7, 200816 yr You mean it's still open?!?! It might actually already be closed; I haven't visited it lately.
September 7, 200816 yr That strip of Brice has crumbled to the ground. It was just another disposable strip-mall that'll be another financial burden.
September 7, 200816 yr ^ Scarborough Mall started as an anchorless four-corridor, enclosed mall. Eventually, Sofa Express took over 2/3rds of the building, leaving basically one corridor of mall shops consisting of a dollar theater, comic book store, used video game store and R/C racetrack.
October 22, 200816 yr From: DowntownColumbus.com <img src="http://rndb.downtowncolumbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/sky-bridge-2.jpg"> BEHOLD: BE-HOLED Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Unlike other downtown structures, the Sky Bridge isn’t going out with a BOOM. There will be no explosions… nor will there be implosions. But the big Bridge is going out in style. You might even say that it’s going out in unprecedentedly unique style. On October 22, the demolition team will showcase the destruction and area political leaders and the community will gather as they reveal… a giant hole in the Bridge. Normally, a hole isn’t something to celebrate. A hole in the nylons, a hole in an inflatable pool: all bad things. But this particular hole in the skyline will eventually allow dramatic changes to take place on that centralized stretch of High Street. Columbus Downtown Development Corp.’s Amy Taylor shared the timeline on the project. “The Bridge will be removed by the beginning of December, and retail storefronts will be built out sometime in the spring.” That’s right, spiffy new retail storefronts. With the bridge gone, daylight will spill down into that dark corridor and will illuminate fun, street-side spending opportunities. So, even if there’s no explosive BOOM in the near future, the big hole is surely an explosive BOON for downtown’s future. MORE: http://rndb.downtowncolumbus.com/2008/10/inside-43215-building-blocks-11/
October 22, 200816 yr Finally! That was a bad idea from its inception. It made that one block of High Street dark and dreary. From inside it was nice, but underneath was just ugly. Good riddance!
October 22, 200816 yr After returning from Berlin, this pedestrian bridge makes me think of the building at Checkpoint Charlie in the '70s and '80s. "You are now leaving the Southern Sector"
October 23, 200816 yr Unlike other downtown structures, the Sky Bridge isn’t going out with a BOOM. There will be no explosions… nor will there be implosions. Great news on the demo. Although it would've been fun to see an implosion of the skybridge!
October 24, 200816 yr Walkway over High Street to bite dust Officials celebrate demise of bridge they call scary, shadow-casting Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 3:34 AM By Robert Vitale, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH That overhead High Street walkway between the old Lazarus and City Center didn't cause the nation's financial meltdown, but that's about the only thing it's not being blamed for. Gov. Ted Strickland, Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman and other state and local officials celebrated the demise of the bridge yesterday, saying it has hampered Downtown development, discouraged retail growth along High Street and cut one end of Downtown off from the other. The bridge, created to link the former department store with the mall when both were seeing better days, is coming down after 20 years. It will be gone by late December, and the High Street side of the Lazarus-turned-office-building will get a retro facelift in 2009. Strickland said the bridge's demise will remove a perpetual shadow Downtown. He said he looked forward to "the light that will shine on High Street once again." Coleman called the bridge dark, scary and "a barrier to progress." Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/23/highbridge.ART_ART_10-23-08_B3_83BM9P9.html?sid=101 WBNS-10TV VIDEO: Skybridge Demolition Begins http://wwwphp.10tv.com/vplayer.php?clip=2008_10_22_Skybridge_Demolition_Begins.wmv"
November 7, 200816 yr Great overhead shot of the City Center walkway demo posted over at the Columbus Underground... http://www.columbusunderground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17189&start=30
November 8, 200816 yr that is one huge walkway It contained stores as well, when you were in the mall you would not know high street was beneath you
November 10, 200816 yr Casino Group Eyes City Center Thursday, Nov 06, 2008 By Donna Willis, NBC4i.com City Center once was the crown jewel of Columbus, a shopping haven for thousands. Two decades later, though, City Center is a ghost town. The city took over the mall more than one year ago and has yet to come up with a plan to revamp the 152,000-square feet of vacant shopping space. With the failure of Issue 6, though, the group that proposed a casino in Clinton County has its eye on it. The proponents of an Ohio casino said they'll be back next November with an even bigger plan that includes Columbus and City Center. Would city leaders go for a Downtown casino? NBC 4's Mike Bowersock got answers. Mayor Coleman wouldn't commit to anything yet. "I have historically been against the past two proposals because I don't think they've been good for the state of Ohio, that is not to say I'll be against future proposals, but there's no proposals here," Coleman said. Governor Ted Strickland, who was against the casino plan near Wilmington, said he'll support whatever voters want, but is fundamentally anti-casino. "My opinion that the gambling industry is not the way for us to work towards economic development in Ohio," Strickland said. "We are absolutely committed to rewriting the petition making it absolutely crystal clear that we are paying our taxes," Dr. Brad Pressman, with MyOhioNow, said. "We're going to take care of the other concerns that Argosy raised so when we came back with the petition, it's going to be airtight. The other thing that we learned, that is really important, is that we have got to have more than one casino location." http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/news.apx.-content-articles-CMH-2008-11-06-0028.html
November 10, 200816 yr ^ Love the idea so far! The last place casinos need to be right now is in the boonies!
November 10, 200816 yr I don't think it would work as a casino. I think it was in the flats, in Cleveland, or the banks in Cinci, yes. Not out in the sticks somewhere as it cannot be a catalyst for development, nor in the heart of the city like CCC.
November 11, 200816 yr I said it pages ago and I will say it again, a casino in downtown Columbus (CC) would make that part of downtown come alive, kind of how Arena District is now.
November 11, 200816 yr I agree...keep the money in Ohio...to much flows out. People gamble, period. Spend in Columbus! Why policitians always play it so weirdly on this issue never ceases to amaze me. Who do they think they are kidding? And anything is better than abandoned storefronts, which not only looks depressing, but IS depressing.
November 12, 200816 yr Question? In regard to gambling, can we keep that in the gambling thread? Answer: Don't make that bet!
November 12, 200816 yr Question? In regard to gambling, can we keep that in the gambling thread? Gambling posts involving City Center should be put in this thread. This is one of the prospective site for the casino.
November 12, 200816 yr Gambling posts involving City Center should be put in this thread. This is one of the prospective site for the casino. Really? Is there a list of sites?
November 12, 200816 yr Question? In regard to gambling, can we keep that in the gambling thread? Gambling posts involving City Center should be put in this thread. This is one of the prospective site for the casino. I agree with David.
November 12, 200816 yr Gambling posts involving City Center should be put in this thread. This is one of the prospective site for the casino. Really? Is there a list of sites? Cincinnati, Cleveland and I think Youngstown.
November 12, 200816 yr Gambling posts involving City Center should be put in this thread. This is one of the prospective site for the casino. Really? Is there a list of sites? Cincinnati, Cleveland and I think Youngstown. I'm asking for specific site locations across the state.
November 12, 200816 yr I don't think they've been anounced but I'd imagine areas for consideration would be the flats in Cleveland or maybe broadway commons or The Banks in Cincinnati.
November 12, 200816 yr So if there has been no official announcement, about locations or cities, how did CCM become a "prospective" site? :?
November 12, 200816 yr Because there was a press release posted, anouncing that MyOhioNow - (the group promoted the Wilmington site) now has their eyes on City Center but is also considering other large cities. They're still scoping places out.
November 23, 200816 yr Another photo of the High Street walkway's continued deconstruction. This was taken by a Dispatch photographer on 11/19/08 looking north along High Street from slightly above the walkway level.
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