June 9, 200916 yr Statehouse museum goes 21st century Business First of Columbus - by Adrian Burns Monday, June 8, 2009, 8:00am EDT Visitors to the Ohio Statehouse soon will be able to balance the state’s budget, give a State of the State speech and cast a vote in the legislature. Not for real, of course, but they can experience those tasks and others as part of a new museum wing opening June 10 in the capital building. The relocation of the museum gift shop last year made room for the 5,000-square-foot museum space, which is chock-full of interactive displays, colorful storyboards and computerized exhibits. http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/06/08/story5.html?b=1244433600^1840470
June 9, 200916 yr Statehouse museum goes 21st century Ohio Statehouse Museum Description: 15,000-square-foot museum dedicated to the history and role of the Ohio Statehouse. Opens: June 10 Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday Cost: Free Features: Several newer interactive exhibits have been added, including: • Great Ohioans exhibit. • Interactive Ohio Constitution exhibit. • Podium that displays passages from State of the State addresses. • Web-based interactive exhibit providing information on the state’s governors. • Interactive exhibit that allows visitors to practice balancing a simplified Ohio budget. • Narrative display on how a bill is crafted.
June 13, 200916 yr Simple Sweets in Clintoville. With the Cup O' Joe coffeeshop, vegan Pattycake Bakery, middle eastern Lavash Cafe, and now this, Tulane and High is officially my favorite intersection (***not*** from a technical standpoint). As for the improvements Downtown I am with them on infill, but prettying parking lots and other dead space is like putting lipstick on a pig. No one is going to come Downtown after five to look at tree lined parking lots. People do come down for quality eats and drinks. Now how about a cool little after five coffeeshop? Offer booze and coffee a la Kafe Kerouac here in Columbus or Milk Bar in downtown Windsor. I haven't parked at a meter Downtown for quite some time, but if I remember correctly, the meters are free after 6. I think for businesses and the city that it makes more sense to have them free after five so as to make it more attractive to stay Downtown after working rather than having to worry about putting several quarters in the meter until 6. Also, encourage biking and scooting Downtown. Put up signs that say "free metered parking for bikes <-- -->" which would accompany the "No Stopping" signs. And ditch the stupid $50 scooter fee. As if we need to be discouraging car alternatives. Lastly, this city does not understand how important signage is. It is likely a major reason for why a corner adjacent to the topiary park is now a grass lot instead of being re-used for higher quality residential development. No one knows about this sub-neighborhood and the city is doing nothing to change that. Make the interesting parts of Downtown visible with an arch or other gateway treatment. and set up wayfinding signage to these places. Point people to the Warehouse District from High (do we still have to call it that?) and Town-Franklin from State St. You guide people to these places with signage and then the gateway treatment lets them know without a doubt that they've arrived and are not lost. There should also be signage pointing people to neighborhoods (particularly business districts) outside of Downtown. The newly dubbed Olde Towne Quarter is the healthy stretch of Parsons just east of Downtown, but if you're a visitor Downtown you're unlikely to find it on purpose because there's nothing to let you know it exists. King-Lincoln has an arch on Long St as you leave Downtown, but unless you happened upon it you would have never known because there is nothing Downtown, not even around the convention center, to direct people to this up and coming business district. In short, encourage car alternatives and point visitors and residents to what we do have off of High St.
June 14, 200916 yr A short history of Columbus State Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 5:06 PM By Encarnacion Pyle, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/schools/ColState/history.html
June 14, 200916 yr THE COLLEGE CHALLENGE Columbus State Community College is at a pivotal point in its history. Rapidly growing enrollment has made it Ohio's largest community college. The school will open a Delaware County campus in 2010. And the recession and Ohio's master plan for colleges have made the school's economic-development mandate more urgent. This project, which Dispatch reporter Encarnacion Pyle conducted with the help of a fellowship from the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University, explores how the school is confronting the challenge. At the crossroad: Attracting older students Online classes are growing, but success is uneven Profs under pressure: The faculty is growing with students, but many teach part-time The business world: Well-trained workers help region land good jobs
June 14, 200916 yr Columbus State has become Ohio's largest community college: It now must decide how to handle its success and map its future Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 3:22 AM By Encarnacion Pyle, The Columbus Dispatch Columbus State Community College is setting enrollment records, but it isn't reaching enough of the people who experts say need education the most: working adults. With more than 24,000 students this school year, Columbus State became Ohio's largest two-year college for the first time. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/06/14/ColState_students.ART_ART_06-14-09_A1_N2E5FS3.html?sid=101
June 17, 200915 yr FROM HERE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/downtown-is-home-to-ohios-largest-comm-college <b>Downtown is home to Ohio’s Largest Comm. College</b> By Walker | June 16, 2009 <img src="http://www.columbusunderground.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/cscc.jpg"> But you probably wouldn’t realize it by walking around the “campus area”. As this Dispatch article pointed out on Sunday, the enrollment at Columbus State has grown to over 24,000 students per year. Many of those students attend classes at the school’s largest campus located in the Discovery District area within Downtown Columbus. The article goes on to do a pretty good job at explaining how CSCC is dealing with the growth, and what sort of plans that the school’s leadership has for the future, but what I’d like to know is what the city leadership can do to help this section of Downtown realize its full potential. Columbus State has expanded their Downtown campus over the last five years and added several new buildings along Cleveland Avenue including the Center for Technology, Center for Workforce Development, and the Discovery Exchange Building. Despite these additions and improvements, the campus is still very much designed less as a “community” college and more as a “commuter” college. It is a place to drive into, go to class, and drive out of. A quick look at a a campus map reveals how the massive amounts of parking dwarf the the centralized cluster of classroom buildings. Essentially, the thousands of students that set foot Downtown every day have very few options when it comes to living, working, and playing (to use a cliche). So what can the City of Columbus do? Perhaps not a lot directly, as the city doesn’t appear to own much land in this area. But taking a cue from the the new Lifestyle Communities development in RiverSouth, perhaps a developer can be incentivized to build a more concentrated cluster of affordable housing options aimed at students and young professionals who attend college in this area. A mixed-use development could provide ground floor retail that is practically non-existent in this part of Downtown. I have to imagine that the largest community college in the state is capable of supporting at least one off-campus coffee shop or one fast casual dining option, let alone several. The City of Columbus can also incentivize development through streetscaping improvements. Currently, Spring Street serves as a one-way five-lane expressway running between the campus and its southern parking lots. A two-way configuration could help to make this stretch more pedestrian-friendly and help incentivize development on privately-owned property near the corner of Cleveland and Spring where CSCC and CCAD meet. Of course, all of this is much easier said than done. It’s a topic that has been talked about several times here before, and the solutions are much more complex than the simplistic measure we sometimes discuss. But until some sort of plan is laid out and actions are taken, we’re going to have to continue to sit on one what is arguably the largest untapped resource in the Downtown area and watch as these students mimic their downtown workforce counterparts and continue to commute into the area with a single purpose and spend as little time as possible in the area while here. <A href="http://www.columbusunderground.com/downtown-is-home-to-ohios-largest-comm-college">READ MORE</a>
June 27, 200915 yr <b>SpaceJunk Media Moves Creative HQ Downtown</b> By Walker | June 26, 2009 3:00pm <img src="http://www.columbusunderground.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/spacejunk1.jpg"> If you drive into Downtown via Third Street on a regular basis, then you may have recently noticed a bright yellow sign reading “SJ” that has appeared on the side of an newly renovated office building at the corner of Third and Hickory. If you haven’t already figured out the mystery, “SJ” is short for SpaceJunk Media, a creative video and online firm that recently relocated their expanded headquarters into Downtown Columbus. We recently visited their new offices to get a better idea of what they’re all about, and why they choose Downtown as their new home. MORE HERE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/spacejunk-media-moves-creative-hq-downtown
June 27, 200915 yr <b>In My Garden: Dru & Jeannie in Italian Village</b> By Anne | June 23, 2009 3:10pm <img src="http://www.columbusunderground.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/drugarden1.jpg"> Dru and Jeannie Simmons are not new to gardening. They have been participating in the Italian Village community garden for a number of years. But this year, the plot was sold and no longer able to be used as a community garden. Rather than give up, they teamed up with 17 other households to create a new garden. It has been pretty successful so far for most of the households. You might even say there has been a smidge of garden envy going on. Read on to find out more about what they are growing and what their plot looks like. MORE HERE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/in-my-garden-dru-jeannie-in-italian-village
June 30, 200915 yr <b>SpaceJunk Media Moves Creative HQ Downtown</b> By Walker | June 26, 2009 3:00pm <img src="http://www.columbusunderground.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/spacejunk1.jpg"> If you drive into Downtown via Third Street on a regular basis, then you may have recently noticed a bright yellow sign reading “SJ” that has appeared on the side of an newly renovated office building at the corner of Third and Hickory. If you haven’t already figured out the mystery, “SJ” is short for SpaceJunk Media, a creative video and online firm that recently relocated their expanded headquarters into Downtown Columbus. We recently visited their new offices to get a better idea of what they’re all about, and why they choose Downtown as their new home. MORE HERE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/spacejunk-media-moves-creative-hq-downtown Another nice interview, Walker. And that's a pretty slick website at http://spacejunkmedia.com. I especially like the Columbus Crew animation video they produced.
June 30, 200915 yr Original Wendy's site swaps burgers for Bibles Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 3:20 AM By Meredith Heagney, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The Catholic Foundation is moving into the site of the original Wendy's restaurant, which opened in 1969 at 257 E. Broad Street. The foundation, now at 1071 S. High St., is buying the property for a price that neither side would reveal yesterday. The purchase will be announced at an invitation-only event in the parking lot of the vacant restaurant at noon today. The foundation plans to move in during the spring of next year. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/06/30/wendys.ART_ART_06-30-09_B1_M1EB5P2.html?sid=101
June 30, 200915 yr Not exactly helping turn Downtown into a 24/7 place, but I guess they couldn't stand the Christian Scientists just down the street.
June 30, 200915 yr Original Wendy's site swaps burgers for Bibles The original Wendy's restaurant at 257 E. Broad Street (current boarded-up condition). An artist’s rendering shows the proposed exterior of the new Catholic Foundation headquarters at 257 E. Broad Street. The building once housed the original Wendy’s restaurant. In the background is the State Teachers Retirement System office building. The St. Joseph Cathedral and the St. Joseph Chancery across Broad Street from the original Wendy's/new Catholic Foundation headquarters.
June 30, 200915 yr ^This is sacrilege! The original Wendy's should be a shrine itself. I remember eating there many times in the 70's with a friend who went to CCAD. Where is the respect for our history? Dave Thomas must be rolling over in his grave. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
June 30, 200915 yr It is a shame. We don't even have a Columbus history museum Downtown. Make way for the Catholic District, I guess.
July 1, 200915 yr Another nice interview, Walker. And that's a pretty slick website at http://spacejunkmedia.com. I especially like the Columbus Crew animation video they produced. Thanks. ;) I agree that their site is really nice. They do some amazing work there!
July 6, 200915 yr A silver lining the down housing market: Apartments full in this market Sunday, July 5, 2009 3:32 AM By Jim Weiker THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH It's the other side of the housing coin: While sales of homes continue to languish in central Ohio, some landlords are celebrating boom times. "This is the best I've seen in the last nine years," said Dave Anderson, president of Homestead America, which manages about 2,500 apartments in the Columbus area. About 7 percent of central Ohio apartments are vacant, among the lowest levels in seven years, according to the Danter Co. and VWB Research, which track Columbus real estate. During the height of the housing boom, in 2005, when home loans came easily, more than 12 percent of central Ohio apartments were vacant, according to Danter. Tenants seeking new two-bedroom apartments along the northern arc of I-270 or Downtown are finding the choices especially limited. In those areas, fewer than 5 percent of apartments are empty, according to Danter and VWB. Full story at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/07/05/APARTMENTS.ART_ART_07-05-09_D1_3KEBDMJ.html?sid=101
July 12, 200915 yr Somalis building West Side mosque Center to serve growing immigrant population Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 3:08 AM By Meredith Heagney, The Columbus Dispatch Right now, their prayer hall is a former sports bar. But soon, Somali Muslims on the West Side will have a new, $2.5 million mosque for worship. They gathered yesterday under white tents on a vacant field for a groundbreaking ceremony at the northwest corner of Sullivant Avenue and Industrial Mile Road in Prairie Township. The new mosque can accommodate up to 1,700. "It gives you the feeling that you are in a real mosque instead of some strip-mall building," Osman said. "It reminds us like the mosques that we used to use back home." The 9.7-acre property is surrounded by apartment buildings populated predominantly by Somalis, Osman said. The Somali population on the West Side has grown rapidly in the past five years, said Abukar Arman, a Somali and the president of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Columbus. The North Side already is home to several predominantly Somali mosques. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/07/11/newmosque.ART_ART_07-11-09_B4_3BEENLC.html?sid=101
July 14, 200915 yr Developers holding off on condo projects until market recovers Business First of Columbus - by Rose Hanson For Business First Friday, July 3, 2009 Finding initial buyers for downtown condos has become brutal: Sales have slowed to a trickle and half of completed units are unsold, data released late last month show, with most developers unwilling to build new housing. Despite the slump following several years of intense construction and brisk sales, people in the industry are optimistic about the future of downtown living. “There is considerable interest in downtown. It’s just that these current economic conditions have certainly put a stranglehold on being able to sell these things,” said Rob Vogt, partner with VWB Research LLC, the Columbus-based real estate consulting firm that compiled the sales data. The rental market is strong, supplemented by unsold condos that have been leased. Developer Bill Shelby, who has rented one unit and is trying to sell three at his long-completed CityView at 3rd property on Chestnut Street, said his phone has started to ring again with calls from interested people, although most want to rent. “A year ago, it didn’t ring at all. Today, we get two or three calls a day,” he said. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/07/06/focus3.html
July 20, 200915 yr For your viewing pleasure! 1976 Black & white file photo of Columbus' first skyscraper, the Wyandotte Building at 21 West Broad Street. Downtown circa 1940s or 1950s Sinkhole on W. Broad St. in front of the Palace Theater. The sinkhole resulted from a sewer line that collapsed in the westbound lanes and the car was swallowed in Columbus, Ohio, July 9,1986. Billed as the world's largest pothole . Sitting inside is a Mercedes-Benz driven by local lawyer Michael M. Schmidt. 20-foot-deep hole. Looking west from 3rd and Broad Streets to Lincoln LeVeque Tower. 1925 This 1969 photo shows the Maramor restaurant in Columbus Scioto with city skyline - from McKinley Ave Bridge Civic Center, State Office Building Complex. October 15, 1936 City National Bank, on the southeast corner of Gay and High Streets. Circa 1920 The Broadway Vaudeville Theater, circa 1910s Aerial view overlooking the grounds of Central High School toward downtown Columbus in 1983 F. & R. Lazarus - downtown Columbus - "Northwest corner of Town and High streets where Lazarus store now stands. This fire was faked by a movie company in 1908." The banner on the building reads "FUTURE HOME OF THE F. & R. LAZARUS CO." The signs below the banner reads "Busy Bee" (bread and cakes, chocolates) and "LODGING." Lazarus On Nov. 11, 1918, when an armistice ended World War I, a crowd thronged Broad and High streets. This view looks northeast. Broad and High in 1928 Taken in the 1930s, this view along Broad Street looks southwest toward High Street. In 1957, a billboard advertising Gambrinus beer dominated the corner of Broad and High. The Deshler Hotel.
July 20, 200915 yr I love old photos like these. Thanks for this. I really enjoyed it. I think this one is my favorite:
July 20, 200915 yr This is one of my first memories - about to be 5 years old, standing with my mom and her boyfriend trying to see in the sinkhole. Middle of the night, big crowd, tv cameras and tons of lights shining into it. Thanks for posting it, I've never seen a photo of it before - at least that I can remember.
July 21, 200915 yr Awesome! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 24, 200915 yr From here: http://www.columbusunderground.com/city-of-columbus-looking-to-go-wireless <b>City of Columbus Looking to Go Wireless</b> By Walker | July 23, 2009 3:57pm <img src="http://www.columbusunderground.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wireless.jpg"> On Monday, Columbus City Council Member A. Troy Miller will introduce legislation authorizing the City’s Department of Technology to apply for a $37.9 million grant to fund the implementation of a new wireless broadband internet network aimed at improving city services and driving economic development. An example of one type of service upgrade would be the implementation of new wireless water meter reading systems. “Currently, we have individuals who are out on foot to read water meters, “explained Miller. “This wireless system could allow us to operate a single vehicle driving down the street to collect data remotely. It would also reduce errors and help with compliance, as we could easily monitor excess usage and detect system leaks or tampering.” Other cities have used similar wireless networks to connect everything from police and emergency services to traffic signals to transit system operations to wireless parking meters. “This network will open doors for high tech companies in Columbus to approach the city with new ideas and build applications that we can use not only in our city, but all across the country,” said Miller. Currently, the city is focusing on a three-part plan designed to maintain neighborhood services and develop our economic future. One part of that plan is the income tax increase, but another important part is the streamlining of existing city services and operations to make local government more efficient. “This network will allow for efficiencies that we didn’t have before,” said Miller, who chairs the Administration Committee which includes the City of Columbus’ Department of Technology. The grant submission is due by August 14th, and Miller was confident that Columbus is a great candidate for receiving these resources. He expects to hear more in November on the status of the funding.
July 29, 200915 yr Columbus State freezes fall tuition Business First of Columbus Columbus State Community College trustees have agreed to freeze tuition for the school’s fall quarter despite a statewide thaw on the measure, but what students pay in the following quarters will be decided later this year. The two-year college said students will continue to pay $79 a credit hour for fall quarter classes. Trustees plan to take up the question of tuition rates for the winter and spring quarters in September, the school said. The decision comes after Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland lifted a two-year-long tuition freeze for state schools amid a $170 million cut in higher education funding in Ohio’s recently adopted $50.5 billion two-year budget.
August 24, 200915 yr City chic: Developments Downtown tout urban convenience, suburban feel Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 3:40 AM By Jim Weiker, The Columbus Dispatch • The Annex at River South, developed by Lifestyle Communities, features 134 apartments and 76 condominiums on Front Street. All are being built at once and are expected to open between Oct. 1 and the end of the year. Apartments rent for $700 to $1,650; condos sell from the $150,000s to the low $400,000s, with most less than $250,000. About 15 of the condos have been spoken for, sales officials said. • Neighborhood Launch, developed by the Edwards Cos., is scheduled to include 300 condominiums along Gay Street between 4th and 6th streets. The first phase, including 47 units, has been built, and developers hope to begin the second phase of 28 units in the fall. Prices range from $152,500 to more than $700,000, but most cost $200,000 to $400,000. Once completed, the projects will add 510 homes boasting a town-house design with doors that open to the sidewalk -- a rarity in the heart of the city. "Both are real game-changers," said Kevin Wood, a civil engineer and past president of the Downtown Residents Association of Columbus. "It's huge psychologically to see them, to say nothing of economically." Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/home_garden/stories/2009/08/23/DOWNTOWN.ART_ART_08-23-09_H1_AEEQAO2.html?sid=101
August 24, 200915 yr ^ I appreciate Big D's feature article on downtown housing. Very comprehensive and well done. I only wish the editors who write the headlines would read those articles. Here's what I mean. The article headline "City chic: Developments Downtown tout urban convenience, suburban feel" should more accurately read as "Developments Downtown tout suburban convenience and urban feel". Anyone who has seen the two main developments in the article, Neighborhood Launch (Gay Street Condos) and The Annex at RiverSouth, would never say they have a suburban character to them. They are both very appropriately urban in feel. But they do have many suburban-type conveniences, like attached garages and outdoor spaces for many residential units.
August 24, 200915 yr Yeah, that was confusing to me as well. Even with the attached garages, there's not a whole lot suburban about them. Seems more of a marketing gimmick to attract suburban dwellers to consider living here. Which isn't a bad thing at all. ;)
August 24, 200915 yr Agree with both rider and Walker. Overall, the article was well done and touts these two newest additions to the downtown residential market well. Hopefully the "suburban" tagline does help charm some people into these units...:).
August 25, 200915 yr Good points Walker and CMH. I hadn't thought of "suburban" being used as attractive marketing term for downtown living. But I guess it does make some sense when a development is attracting suburban empty nesters, retirees, etc.
August 26, 200915 yr Regarding the SID for 161, I don't see it really improving the area, but good for them if it helps. What can you say? Car-oriented development has a short life span and is currently easily abandoned for newer, shinier sprawl.
August 28, 200915 yr It is strange that newspaper headlines are so backward. But the article is not bad at all. Downtown living in Columbus has come a long way in the past few years. Very impressive.
September 18, 200915 yr Columbus State plans Delaware County campus College expects Delaware to draw at least 2,000 students in year one Thursday, September 17, 2009 By Encarnacion Pyle THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Columbus State Community College hopes to attract between 2,000 and 2,600 students over the course of the first school year at the new Delaware County campus, which opens in fall 2010. Columbus State is already Ohio's largest two-year college, with more than 24,000 students last school year. More than 29,000 students have signed up for fall quarter, although the numbers could change before classes start on Wednesday. While it will be the college's first free-standing campus outside of Downtown, it will be considered part of "one Columbus State," President Valeriana Moeller said. "We'll have one college with two campuses that share one vision, one mission and one team of employees." Full story: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/09/17/Delaware_campus.ART_ART_09-17-09_B1_FHF3O11.html?sid=101
September 21, 200915 yr Columbus State to new campus: Let’s be independent together Business First of Columbus - by Carrie Ghose Two campuses, one college. With a second campus scheduled to open next fall in Delaware, Columbus State Community College President Val Moeller wants to avoid needless administrative duplication while the new location responds to local academic needs. Although Columbus State has suburban classroom sites administered centrally, Delaware will be its first full campus where students can register, see academic counselors and have access to a library. Evening, weekend and accelerated courses will serve working students. Columbus State will use video conferencing, document imaging and other technology to connect the two campuses. A student that begins enrollment in one location can finish at the other without waiting for the transfer of paper documents. Delaware faculty can participate remotely in Columbus academic department meetings via video link. Columbus staff will fill in for vacations, leaves of absence and emergencies. Full story: http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/09/21/story11.html
September 24, 200915 yr Columbus State breaks new enrollment record Business First of Columbus Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 9:27am EDT Columbus State Community College President Val Moeller was right when she projected earlier this month the school might see enrollment exceed 27,000 for fall quarter. First-day figures show enrollment topped that expectation – and kept climbing toward 29,000. The school said that as of Wednesday, enrollment stood at 28,874, up 17 percent from 24,615 on the first day of fall quarter last year. That total includes the main downtown campus, 10 learning centers and online distance learning enrollment, the school said. The final student count won’t be determined until Oct. 7, but the preliminary numbers represent the fourth consecutive record-breaking quarter of enrollment at Columbus State. Full story at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/09/21/daily19.html
October 2, 200915 yr <b>Columbus Sprawl Slows Down and Gets Smarter</b> By Walker | September 25, 2009 8:15am <img src="http://www.columbusunderground.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/columbusgrowthmapseries2.jpg"> Two weeks ago, The Dispatch ran a story about the annexation and growth of the City of Columbus. The article was fairly straightforward with it’s message of advocating smart growth policies within our existing city boundaries, and abandoning the aggressive outward annexation that was pursued during the latter half of the 20th century. What the article failed to really highlight is the current policies in place that are already being used to move the city in this direction, as annexation has already greatly slowed over the past decade. We recently sat down with Greg Davies, the Deputy Chief of Staff for the City of Columbus to discuss the current growth policies and strategies. READ MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/columbus-sprawl-slows-down-and-gets-smarter
October 5, 200915 yr I find Columbus' obsession with "North" fascinating. The Short North ends at 5th avenue. The "Northside" library branch is at 7th avenue. "Upper" Arlington and Grandview are crisscrossed by "North Star" "Northwest" and "Northham" streets. Then there's the ghost of "Northland" mall, and of course, the newest (for now) "north"-themed development rage, "Polaris." North = Progress, I suppose. Wow, I never thought about this. Maybe this is why the south side sucks.
October 17, 200915 yr FROM HERE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/wind-power-could-be-coming-soon-to-central-ohio <b>Wind Power Could be Coming Soon to Central Ohio</b> By Walker | October 11, 2009 3:00pm <img src="http://www.columbusunderground.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/wind-power-in-transit.jpg"> An article in today’s Dispatch showcases a proposal called The Buckeye Wind Project that would install 70 wind turbines on 9,000 acres located 50 miles west of Columbus in Champaign County. The Ohio Power Siting Board will hold a public meeting on the project on October 28th at Triad High School in North Lewisburg to weigh the pros and cons of the proposed development. According to their website, Buckeye Wind states that each turbine could provide enough power for 600-750 homes in Ohio, while also providing new construction, operational, and maintenance jobs. Concerns raised about the project include potential environmental impacts, proximity to the Urbana municipal airport, and the visible aesthetic impact it could have on the skyline for nearby residents. Each turbine would measure 492 feet tall. The full Dispatch article can be found here: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/10/11/WINDY.ART_ART_10-11-09_B1_O3FB13E.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101&title=Wind-turbine+project+not+exactly+a+breeze Buckeye Wind Project: http://www.buckeyewindproject.com Ohio Power Siting Board: http://www.opsb.ohio.gov
November 9, 200915 yr Old Oaks neighborhood enjoys a bit of a revival Small, close-knit and architecturally rich, the neighborhood is a pocket of stability in an area that's struggling Monday, November 9, 2009 - 3:04 AM By Mark Ferenchik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The Old Oaks neighborhood was one of Columbus' first streetcar suburbs a century ago. The area was platted in 1892, when an electric streetcar line was built along Livingston Avenue, said Doug Motz, a longtime neighborhood leader who lives on Oakwood Avenue. Before that, horses pulled trolleys along the street. The streetcars are long gone, and the neighborhood has had its share of ups and downs over the years, but today it's enjoying a bit of a rebirth. OLD OAKS NEIGHBORHOOD MAP Full story at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/09/OLDOAKS.ART_ART_11-09-09_B1_60FJLG0.html?sid=101
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