December 5, 20177 yr Developer plans huge mixed-use project west of Riverside Drive Preferred Living has drawn up plans for a huge apartment project with commercial space in the fast-growing Dublin-Trabue Road corridor on the west side of town. Plans submitted to the city of Columbus show what the luxury apartment developer has in the works for a 28.7-acre tract on the west side of McKinley Avenue, just south of Trabue Road, including as many as 481 units. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/12/04/preferred-living-plans-huge-mixed-use-project-west.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 5, 20177 yr Developer plans huge mixed-use project west of Riverside Drive Preferred Living has drawn up plans for a huge apartment project with commercial space in the fast-growing Dublin-Trabue Road corridor on the west side of town. Plans submitted to the city of Columbus show what the luxury apartment developer has in the works for a 28.7-acre tract on the west side of McKinley Avenue, just south of Trabue Road, including as many as 481 units. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/12/04/preferred-living-plans-huge-mixed-use-project-west.html From that article it looks like that trailer park(with over 100 trailers) is doomed. Getting rid of the poor people so more luxury housing can be built, while virtually no new affordable housing is being built anywhere. smh. Hell they are getting rid of at least a third of what is left of San Margherita. Most of the houses on the south side of Trabue are going too. Disgusting. Just to put in another fucking luxury development while helping to destroy an historically significant village. I wonder if any of those houses still have the grapes and figs(they would overwinter them and they would survive). Just a damn shame. And nobody gives a damn. looks like 7 or 8 of the 22 or so homes remaining will be lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Margherita,_Ohio Screw this development.
December 6, 20177 yr Large Apartment Complex and Commercial Development Planned for Trabue Road Columbus City Council will weigh in next week on a plan from developer Preferred Living for the corner of Trabue Road and McKinley Avenue on the west side. A 480-unit apartment complex would be built on an 18-acre site south of Trabue and west of McKinley, while a 15-acre site adjacent to the apartments would be reserved for commercial development. More below: http://www.columbusunderground.com/large-apartment-complex-and-commercial-development-planned-for-trabue-road-bw1 "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 7, 20177 yr Developer plans huge mixed-use project west of Riverside Drive Preferred Living has drawn up plans for a huge apartment project with commercial space in the fast-growing Dublin-Trabue Road corridor on the west side of town. Plans submitted to the city of Columbus show what the luxury apartment developer has in the works for a 28.7-acre tract on the west side of McKinley Avenue, just south of Trabue Road, including as many as 481 units. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/12/04/preferred-living-plans-huge-mixed-use-project-west.html From that article it looks like that trailer park(with over 100 trailers) is doomed. Getting rid of the poor people so more luxury housing can be built, while virtually no new affordable housing is being built anywhere. smh. Hell they are getting rid of at least a third of what is left of San Margherita. Most of the houses on the south side of Trabue are going too. Disgusting. Just to put in another fucking luxury development while helping to destroy an historically significant village. I wonder if any of those houses still have the grapes and figs(they would overwinter them and they would survive). Just a damn shame. And nobody gives a damn. looks like 7 or 8 of the 22 or so homes remaining will be lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Margherita,_Ohio Screw this development. Literally one of those house has grapes or figs or whatever you're angry about. The businesses along McKinley have fallen in disrepair and the trailer park has zero historical significance and most of those lots are leased anyways(that's how they typically work). It's history is not in-tact and they're at least keeping Johnnie's so that's a positive.
December 7, 20177 yr ^^ I never said the trailer park was historically significant. And San Margherita is not intact because we are looking at the remnants. And thanks for getting the whole point of what I said by the 'one grape or fig' comment (/sarcasm).
December 7, 20177 yr The tabletop and card gaming store in the strip mall there is very popular and well-run.
December 29, 20177 yr Our friends over at Columbus Underground are doing their end-of-year development roundups. Like they've done in past years, they've compiled an excellent series of project lists – mostly urban Columbus projects – that were either completed, started, or announced this year. After going back and sorting a year’s worth of CU stories, here are some of CU's take-aways about Columbus development in 2017: Downtown continued to lead the pack in all three categories, beating out any other single neighborhood. The transformation of High Street in the Short North and University District continued, with many large projects scheduled to open in 2018. Construction started on some major developments in Franklinton after many years of planning (but even bigger ones may be on the way). Development activity has steadily picked up on the Near East Side. Large, multi-phase developments like Grandview Yard, Dublin's Bridge Park, Jeffrey Park in Italian Village and Poindexter Village on the Near East Side continued to steadily fill in. Here are the CU lists of projects that were either completed, started, or announced this year (with a bonus list of "in limbo" projects this year): -- 34 Urban Development Projects Completed in 2017: http://www.columbusunderground.com/34-urban-development-projects-completed-in-2017-bw1 -- 69 Urban Development Projects Under Construction in 2017: http://www.columbusunderground.com/69-urban-development-projects-under-construction-in-2017-bw1 -- 47 Urban Development Projects Announced in 2017: http://www.columbusunderground.com/47-urban-development-projects-announced-in-2017-bw1 -- In Limbo, 20 Urban Development Projects That Were Quiet in 2017: http://www.columbusunderground.com/in-limbo-updates-on-urban-development-projects-that-were-quiet-in-2017-bw1
January 1, 20187 yr My last development post for 2017 was sharing CU's excellent recap lists of urban development projects. To start 2018, I thought I'd do a slightly different take on urban development by sharing this Business First link. The below link contains a slideshow of photos taken during lunchtime of people walking around downtown: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/12/29/2017-18-book-of-lists-features-bounty-of-data-plus.html
January 7, 20187 yr One more 2017 development recap. This one is from Columbus Business First: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/12/28/year-in-review-columbus-skyline-forever-changed.html Plus, a link to Business First's excellent development tracker - Crane Watch: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/maps/columbus-crane-watch
January 28, 20187 yr Suddenly, everybody wants to build a hotel in Columbus. Can demand keep up? By Tristan Navera – Staff Reporter, Columbus Business First Updated: January 9, 2018, 3:56pm As Columbus continues a construction boom, its hotel industry is preparing for an onslaught of newcomers. Hotel & Leisure Advisors, a hotel consulting firm based in Cleveland, counts 41 hotel projects proposed in Central Ohio since 2016 – with a combined 4,774 hotel rooms that could be added in the region. Of them, 1,500 new rooms have been built or are under construction now. With such a bump, competition certainly will tighten in the Central Ohio hotels market, which has just under 30,000 rooms. After years of relative quiet, the several dozen proposals no doubt will change the market dynamics. Though it's likely not all of them ultimately will be built, the proposals bring variety to a scene that's now chasing more upscale tastes, a bustling events industry downtown and booming suburbs. Is it too much? And is it enough to draw a coveted top-tier convention, such as a national political gathering? MORE: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/01/09/suddenly-everybody-wants-to-build-a-hotel-in.html
January 28, 20187 yr In addition to hotel development in the overall Central Ohio region, one of the focuses of new hotel development continues to be around the downtown convention center. From https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/01/09/suddenly-everybody-wants-to-build-a-hotel-in.html "Five years after the 532-room Hilton Columbus Downtown was built, business is booming. The hotel is four years ahead of financial projections, and from 2010 to 2016 it generated $41 million in business for the local economy from groups that might not have come to Columbus otherwise." "Don Brown of the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority has advocated for a 1,000 room hotel to serve the Greater Columbus Convention Center, most likely taking the form of an expansion of one of the large hotels immediately surrounding the center, the Hilton and the Hyatt Regency. The county and city continue to explore options." "Within the surrounding few blocks, though, hundreds of new hotel rooms are in the works or recently done, most in smaller, luxury "boutique hotels." Indus Hotels is developing a 168-room Canopy by Hilton property at 77 E. Nationwide Blvd., the 11-story Bollinger Tower is to be converted to a 171-unit Graduate Hotel, and a 111-room Moxy Hotel is in the works on the old Haiku site in Short North, to be finished in 2019. And next to the North Market on Park Street, an AC Marriott hotel is planned by Continental Real Estate Cos."
January 28, 20187 yr Here is a rundown of the Central Ohio hotel project pipeline from https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/01/09/suddenly-everybody-wants-to-build-a-hotel-in.html:
January 29, 20187 yr Suddenly, everybody wants to build a hotel in Columbus. Can demand keep up? By Tristan Navera – Staff Reporter, Columbus Business First Updated: January 9, 2018, 3:56pm As Columbus continues a construction boom, its hotel industry is preparing for an onslaught of newcomers. Hotel & Leisure Advisors, a hotel consulting firm based in Cleveland, counts 41 hotel projects proposed in Central Ohio since 2016 – with a combined 4,774 hotel rooms that could be added in the region. Of them, 1,500 new rooms have been built or are under construction now. With such a bump, competition certainly will tighten in the Central Ohio hotels market, which has just under 30,000 rooms. After years of relative quiet, the several dozen proposals no doubt will change the market dynamics. Though it's likely not all of them ultimately will be built, the proposals bring variety to a scene that's now chasing more upscale tastes, a bustling events industry downtown and booming suburbs. Is it too much? And is it enough to draw a coveted top-tier convention, such as a national political gathering? MORE: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/01/09/suddenly-everybody-wants-to-build-a-hotel-in.html Not sure if it's mentioned in the article but the long proposed hotel on Olentangy River Rd behind Cap City Diner is getting site prepped as we speak. I also do not see it on the list; the building that was there has been demo'd for over a year but equipment is on site.
February 23, 20187 yr I spoke to someone with knowledge of the Downtown Commission agenda for 2/27. There is a project proposed on E. Long near 6th (8 stories) and another at Town and 4th (15 stories). Interestingly, both are by out of state developers.
February 23, 20187 yr Suddenly, everybody wants to build a hotel in Columbus. Can demand keep up? By Tristan Navera – Staff Reporter, Columbus Business First Updated: January 9, 2018, 3:56pm As Columbus continues a construction boom, its hotel industry is preparing for an onslaught of newcomers. Hotel & Leisure Advisors, a hotel consulting firm based in Cleveland, counts 41 hotel projects proposed in Central Ohio since 2016 – with a combined 4,774 hotel rooms that could be added in the region. Of them, 1,500 new rooms have been built or are under construction now. With such a bump, competition certainly will tighten in the Central Ohio hotels market, which has just under 30,000 rooms. After years of relative quiet, the several dozen proposals no doubt will change the market dynamics. Though it's likely not all of them ultimately will be built, the proposals bring variety to a scene that's now chasing more upscale tastes, a bustling events industry downtown and booming suburbs. Is it too much? And is it enough to draw a coveted top-tier convention, such as a national political gathering? MORE: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/01/09/suddenly-everybody-wants-to-build-a-hotel-in.html Not sure if it's mentioned in the article but the long proposed hotel on Olentangy River Rd behind Cap City Diner is getting site prepped as we speak. I also do not see it on the list; the building that was there has been demo'd for over a year but equipment is on site. I haven't been through there in 6 weeks or so. So the old motel that got turned into medical offices is coming down for a new hotel?
February 23, 20187 yr Columbus plans new tax-abatement rules to encourage mixed-income development in more neighborhoods As Columbus City Council begins deliberations to overhaul tax incentives to encourage mixed-income housing development in successfully revitalized neighborhoods such as the Short North, leaders freely acknowledge that property tax abatements are one implement in a cavernous toolbox. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/02/22/columbus-plans-new-tax-abatement-rules-to.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 24, 20187 yr Rising costs take a toll on Columbus construction $535 million in construction projects were started in Columbus in January, a 44 percent increase from 2017. That jump is in part a product of big groundbreakings in the commercial construction segment, but rising construction costs also play a role. "It's kind of scary just how how hot the Columbus market is," said Mark Ogden, pre-construction manager at Turner Construction Co. "We're having a hard time predicting the costs of construction." More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/02/23/rising-costs-take-a-toll-on-columbus-construction.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 24, 20187 yr Everybody blames too many people going to college for the skilled trades labor shortage, but a lot of young males have now figured out a way to survive while being unemployed/underemployed. They have "horse sense" which allows them to walk or bike around town bartering objects out of a backpack, stopping at mom's for a meal or to bum money, selling weed, picking up some shifts at a fast casual place and various other small hustles. These guys really only need to come up with about $150 a week to live and there's way more of them nowadays than there were in the Dirtbag '80s or Slacker '90s. Back then you had to have a car to be socailly accepted -- now you don't. And males were motivated/pressured to get married and have kids whereas now they aren't... especially these types of guys. They never took college classes so they don't have any kind of student load debt. They're aren't applying for any kind of public assistance either. They are able to fully entertian themselves with Netflix, video games, card games, weed and beer. All of it adds up to an entire class that isn't motivated to do a difficult outdoor job just to get money that they don't care about or need. They will be able to live like this indefinitely. If somebody makes it to 35 like that they're not going to change.
February 26, 20187 yr I know we've seen a real uptick in Downtown projects especially over the last year or so, but these are some pretty cool stats to read that help put it all in perspective - Downtown sees flood of new apartment buildings Four buildings that opened between November and January are welcoming their first tenants. They will be followed by roughly one new building a month for the next two years. This year alone, nine more apartment and condominium buildings are expected to open, adding almost 1,200 new residences to the city’s core. More than two dozen additional projects are on the drawing board featuring 2,000 apartments and about 100 condominiums — not including residences proposed in nearby areas such as the Short North and Franklinton. About 18 percent of all apartments set to open in central Ohio this year are Downtown, according to YardMatrix, an apartment research firm. http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180225/downtown-sees-flood-of-new-apartment-buildings The article also included this nice drone video going over a few of the soon-to-open projects -
February 26, 20187 yr The print version had this map that may be easier to read than the interactive map on their website.
February 26, 20187 yr I can't get over how massive 80 on the Commons looks from the southeast. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 26, 20187 yr Haha! Yes! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 26, 20187 yr I can't get over how massive 80 on the Commons looks from the southeast. Would look a hell of a lot better if built to the original 17 story plan. It's too chunky at 12 floors.
February 26, 20187 yr The print version had this map that may be easier to read than the interactive map on their website. The article states that all of the projects currently under construction or approved will add over 3,000 new residents to downtown. That is insane when you consider that the downtown area only had around 3,000 total residents in 2000. If we keep moving at the current rate, we should hit 15,000 downtown residents fairly soon I imagine.
February 27, 20187 yr The print version had this map that may be easier to read than the interactive map on their website. The article states that all of the projects currently under construction or approved will add over 3,000 new residents to downtown. That is insane when you consider that the downtown area only had around 3,000 total residents in 2000. If we keep moving at the current rate, we should hit 15,000 downtown residents fairly soon I imagine. The latest estimate was 8,400 with at least 12,000 expected by 2020, which is about double what it was in 2010. I'm sure there will be quite a few projects proposed between now and then, so 15,000 is probably doable by 2022 or so.
February 27, 20187 yr I know we've seen a real uptick in Downtown projects especially over the last year or so, but these are some pretty cool stats to read that help put it all in perspective - Downtown sees flood of new apartment buildings Four buildings that opened between November and January are welcoming their first tenants. They will be followed by roughly one new building a month for the next two years. This year alone, nine more apartment and condominium buildings are expected to open, adding almost 1,200 new residences to the city’s core. More than two dozen additional projects are on the drawing board featuring 2,000 apartments and about 100 condominiums — not including residences proposed in nearby areas such as the Short North and Franklinton. About 18 percent of all apartments set to open in central Ohio this year are Downtown, according to YardMatrix, an apartment research firm. http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180225/downtown-sees-flood-of-new-apartment-buildings Here's a digital version of that printed list/map of downtown residential projects, plus a larger version of the map:
March 1, 20187 yr Wagenbrenner buys land for big development at Marble Cliff Quarry Wagenbrenner Development and Columbus Metro Parks have closed on the first bit of land in Marble Cliff Quarry were a massive redevelopment — and a new city park — are in the works. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/03/01/wagenbrenner-buys-land-for-big-development-at.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 2, 20187 yr Wasn't really sure of the best thread, but I came across this amazing 360 panoramic drone shot taken last month on the downtown riverfront. It's fully zoomable and offers a terrific view of all kinds of projects underway/completed in the area from a unique vantage point - scioto greenways, scioto peninsula park, veterans memorial, riversouth, arena district, franklinton, etc etc - https://goo.gl/maps/EFuDtuhWDtG2
March 3, 20187 yr It's nice to see 80 on the Commons going up there on the right, and directly behind the center of this building is where the new 15 story building will rise. 80 on the Commons is supposed to be complete around the end of September, right around the time the 15 story tower will be getting started.
March 5, 20187 yr One more drone view from this recent Dispatch article about the downtown apartment boom: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180225/downtown-sees-flood-of-new-apartment-buildings This one is of the renovated former Mercantile Building at 309 S. Fourth Street. A previous article about this project said this five-story building was converted from office space into 44 residential units, along with a name change to the United States Carriage Co. building (after the original 1902 tenant): https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/09/26/first-look-inside-the-dramatic-transformation-of.html Here is the drone view of the 309 S. Fourth Street building near the corner of Fourth & Main (with 80 on the Commons lurking in the background):
March 7, 20187 yr https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/03/02/72-apartment-community-in-the-works-on-bethel-road.html Proposal in Northwest Columbus to build a three-building 72-unit apartment complex on Bethel Road west of Sawmill Road. The apartment redevelopment would replace a trio of small office buildings on the property. This proposal to rezone about 2.5 acres at 3001 Bethel Road passed the Columbus zoning committee last week.
March 7, 20187 yr Although this isn't type of project we usually highlight here at Urban Ohio, this new Franklin County Jail is a large development under construction on the city's west side. Below are two renderings, an article link and a project recap: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/03/02/two-companies-get-big-bite-of-175m-new-jail.html Franklin County approved two major contracts for the construction of a new $175 million Franklin County Jail at 2551 Fisher Road. The county broke ground on the new jail in November. The 900-bed jail is expected to be complete in 2019 and would replace the current Jackson Pike facility that opened in 1969. With room on the Fisher Road site to expand, the new Franklin County Jail could grow to 2,000 beds in the future.
March 10, 20187 yr Some streetviews of the finished townhouse project that replaced the former Church of the Nazarene site at 142-176 King Avenue. Here's a link to the original approval: https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,419.msg716904.html#msg716904 Aerial view of the church and its parking lot before construction: Aerial rendering of the townhouse project that replaced the church and parking lot (no current aerial view at Google): Streetview from the corner of King & Hunter: Streetview from King Avenue: Streetview from the corner of King & Highland:
March 10, 20187 yr I've driven by many times. These things are hideous. How was all that chain link fence approved?
March 10, 20187 yr Ha is it really chain-link fencing? At least there aren't a million dogs running up to it and raging out in your face as you walk by. With one or two more tied up to a stake in the middle of a dirt circle.
March 11, 20187 yr I don't mind the buildings but the streetscape is awful. No street trees and those concrete block planters at the corners are amateurish. Those south facing porches and terraces could've been more habitable with trees - something similar to Neighborhood Launch.
March 11, 20187 yr Damn that looks awful. They couldn't even use some cheap black metal fencing? That chain link(and that much chain link)should never have been allowed for this.
March 12, 20187 yr #1 it's not chain link fencing, it's a metal railing #2 in physical appearance it is much better than what was there and adds some vibrancy to the neighborhood
March 12, 20187 yr # 3 It is still extremely ugly no matter what it is and they could have done it better. * this post was not mean't to be taken seriously...it is not that big of a deal. ;)
March 28, 20187 yr Very interesting article about how Downtown Columbus parking prices compare with the 40 biggest cities in the U.S.: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/03/27/how-downtown-parking-prices-compare-with-the-40.html Data from Chicago-based parking app Parkopedia and Atlanta consultant Parking Property Advisors show that Downtown Columbus parking rates are at the lower end of the price range for hourly rates, daily rates, monthly rates and reserved parking spot rates. Below are graphs showing these price range for many regional and peer cities to Columbus (plus NYC & Chicago which were at the top of the price ranges). It should be noted that the Columbus data is for the traditional central business district and does not include places like the Short North (the hottest developing area in C-BUS with parking scarcity) or the University District (the most densely packed neighborhood in the state):
April 2, 20187 yr My goodness I hate those surface lots between 670 and Nationwide Arena. I wish we could get something built on those ASAP. We also need to do something about those surface lots across the street from Huntington Park.
April 2, 20187 yr My goodness I hate those surface lots between 670 and Nationwide Arena. I wish we could get something built on those ASAP. We also need to do something about those surface lots across the street from Huntington Park. Slowly but surely they will start to disappear. The very small triangle shaped lot along 670 is a staging area for the Short North streetscape project but will also probably act as that when the Park Street hotel project gets underway. Also the light colored one between Vine and Spruce would've been taken up by a Market District had it not been for the Grandview Yard project and the recession. *Edit to say that we see a reboot of the Grand Central development, that area infilled would make downtown really pop from 670. People seem to complain a ton about how we're not moving like Nashville, Austin, etc but IMO Columbus is growing smart and sustainable. We have a ton of land area as you sort of pointed out in your initial post and infill on those doesn't happen overnight. If we keep the population growth and current pace of development in the next decade downtown will be infilled properly with a mix of midsized and large towers.
April 6, 20187 yr I'm not sure where to put this, but I was sitting at my office, which overlooks this area, which isn't necessarily "Short North", but it's also not quite Arena District. Technically being south of 670 it is "Downtown" but I sorta just consider this area the Convention District? Anyways, I got to thinking about the projects that are all about to break ground in the next 4-6 months, and the amount of construction/congestion that is about to happen within a 2-3 block area. It's quite impressive IMO but some decent headaches for my commute temporarily haha An updated map I pieced together...... Side note, Google Maps is quite outdated, the new parking garage and convention center expansion etc has not been updated in this pic....
April 6, 20187 yr ^ It looks like you have the 3D setting turned on. If you turn that off, the map is much more up-to-date. In 7-8 years, this area is going to look so different. It's really going to extend our skyline further north with the addition of a 35-story tower and a 23+ story tower. I think the awkward lot next to the Goodale garage is a good spot for another 15-20 story tower as well. It will be exciting to see all of the progress in the coming years.
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