March 12, 20169 yr Canal Market District Launching Soon in Downtown Newark This summer, a quick trip east to Newark will provide you with more entertainment options than usual, thanks to the grand opening of the Canal Market District in the heart of the city’s Downtown. While the buzz about the new facility has been building over the past several months, the project is actually decades in the making by local community leader J. Gilbert “Gib” Reese. “For the past thirty years, Gib would tell anyone who would listen about his vision to create a public farmers’ market space in Downtown Newark along the former site of the Ohio Canal,” explains Canal Market District Senior Operations Director Jazz Glastra. ”As part of a public-private partnership, Gib’s vision is finally coming to fruition through a generous investment by the Thomas J. Evans Foundation of Newark.” More below: http://www.columbusunderground.com/canal-market-district-newark "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 25, 20169 yr Licking Memorial breaks ground on downtown urgent care By Kent Mallett, Reporter - Newark Advocate February 25, 2016 - 6:35 p.m. EST Developer Jerry McClain's decades-long vision for the Ohio 16 entrance into downtown Newark will finally be complete this year when Licking Memorial Hospital builds on the northeast corner of Fourth and Locust streets. LMH broke ground Thursday on an $8 million urgent care facility that LMH President and CEO Rob Montagnese said should be completed about year's end and open in early 2017. The hospital's two-story, 23,000-square-foot building will be its third urgent care facility. It also will provide space for two physician practices. ( . . . ) The first downtown intersection that greets visitors exiting Ohio 16 East will include the new LMH building, the Jerry McClain Companies headquarters that opened in 2014, and the Heartland Bank building that opened in 2012. McClain started the downtown improvements almost a decade ago when he lobbied city leaders to improve the city's "front door," then spent about $3 million to demolish numerous run-down properties in the area. MORE: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/2016/02/25/licking-memorial-breaks-ground-downtown-urgent-care/80934266/
March 25, 20169 yr Licking County Courthouse to get new roof, LED lights in facelift By Jennifer Smola, The Columbus Dispatch Friday, March 18, 2016 - 5:57 AM The Licking County Courthouse soon will be hidden behind scaffolding as work begins to restore the iconic 19th century building. ... The $4.6 million, first phase of renovations is expected to take about 17 months and will involve work on the tower, roof, support brackets and some decorative structures. The main focus is making the courthouse, which was built beginning in 1876, watertight, said pre-construction manager Phil Johnson of Robertson Construction Services Inc. ... “It’s really just to restore what was there; it’s not to change the aesthetics,” Johnson said. A new elevator will be installed during a later phase, which also might include the replacement of windows. Wachtel & McAnally Architects/Planners Inc., which is handling the project design, also is exploring installing permanent LED lights around the courthouse tower and roof. MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/18/licking-county-courthouse-facelift-set-to-start.html
March 25, 20169 yr An exterior view and interior view of the Licking County Courthouse in Downtown Newark from http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/18/licking-county-courthouse-facelift-set-to-start.html More Licking County Courthouse photos at http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/03/18/licking-county-courthouse-facelift-set-to-start.html
March 25, 20169 yr My first and only appearance in traffic court was in that courthouse. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
May 31, 20169 yr Downtown Newark's Canal Market District will be opening Friday, June 3: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2016/05/25/canal-market-district-opens-friday-music-food/84845624/
May 31, 20169 yr Canal Market District website: http://www.canalmarketdistrict.org/ Downtown Newark's Canal Market District officially launched last Friday with a dedication event. The first farmers market event will take place next Friday, June 3. CU's Walker Evans was at last Friday's dedication event and produced this photo-tour: http://www.columbusunderground.com/newark-canal-market-district
June 8, 20169 yr Review of the construction and reconstruction happening in Downtown Newark from CU + a good phototour of it: http://www.columbusunderground.com/newark-making-historic-80-million-investment-in-its-future
June 9, 20169 yr Lots of great things happening in Newark these days! Would love to see COTA commit to pursuing the commuter rail line under consideration as part of their NextGen study.
June 9, 20169 yr ^Agreed. Newark-to-Columbus would be very cool. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 21, 20168 yr Among the many renovation projects currently going on in Downtown Newark are a series of murals. Recent article and video from the Dispatch about these Downtown Newark murals: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/06/13/newarks-new-downtown-murals-revive-past.html
July 21, 20168 yr Last week was the final day for Longaberger workers in their big basket office building. The Dispatch has a report on this with interior and exterior photos of the 7-story building and a video tour of the building: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2016/07/14/1-last-day-arrives-for-longaberger-and-big-basket.html
August 5, 20168 yr The State granted Historic Tax Credits for this building facing the Courthouse Square: From https://development.ohio.gov/files/media/pressrelease/2016.6.28%20-%20Release%20-%20Ohio%20Historic%20Preservation%20Tax%20Credit%20Round%2016.pdf 14-16 North Park Place (Newark, Licking County) Total Project Cost: $1,546,489 Total Tax Credit: $249,999 Address: 14 - 16 North Park Place, 43055 This project faces the Licking County Courthouse on the north side of the square and contains first floor commercial space with upper levels that have been vacant for decades. The project will renew the upper floors and rear spaces into three apartments and office spaces, hoping to add vitality to downtown Newark with new residents and workers.
August 6, 20168 yr Update on a previous state historic tax credit issued in 2013 for 36-38 S. Third Street. This three-story commercial building is at the end of a commercial block located immediately south of the Licking County Courthouse in downtown Newark and adjacent to the newly completed Canal Market District. The ground floor commercial space was upgraded and the upper two floors renovated into four apartments. Below is an August 2015 streetview of the renovated building at 36-38 S. Third Street. The original tax credit announcement and a 2012 photo of the building is here in this thread. A real estate listing for one of new apartments is at http://www.trulia.com/rental/3217952521-36-S-3rd-St-Newark-OH-43055:
August 8, 20168 yr The on-again off-again restoration of Downtown Newark's Louis Sullivan jewel-box bank building - see this report from 2009 - appears to be on-again. The building has a new owner, the non-profit Licking County Foundation, which was given the Louis Sullivan building as a gift in 2014. And the county's tourism organization, Explore Licking County, plans to make the building its headquarters after restoration is completed in 2018: Historic Louis Sullivan-designed bank building in Newark to be restored By Jennifer Smola, The Columbus Dispatch Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 5:09 AM NEWARK — The Home Building Association Company in downtown Newark on the west side of Courthouse Square, is guarded by a vigilant lion, carved into the gray, terra cotta exterior walls. The bright mosaics on the building’s façade draws customers in to a rich interior, with marble floors and ornately painted ceilings. Light passes through opalescent windows to cast a warm glow on colorful geometric murals that covered the walls. One of eight “jewel box” banks built by Sullivan between 1906 and 1916 throughout the Midwest, the Newark building opened its doors as the Home Building Association Company in 1915. Commonly known as the Old Home, Sullivan’s Newark creation housed a number of banks since its construction, as well as a meat market, jewelry store and ice cream parlor. The building sat empty for nearly a decade, but now the Licking County Foundation - which was given the building as a gift in 2014 - is teaming up with Explore Licking County to make Sullivan’s bank an inspiring public space once again. Restoration work on the iconic building is underway, and the tourism group plans to make the building its headquarters once the work is completed in late 2018. ( . . . ) The first phase of the renovation will focus on the building’s basement, which extends beneath the sidewalks on Main and Third streets. The foundation hoped to do the building’s restoration all at once, but because Newark’s downtown sewer and street overhaul work is now taking place on the northwest quadrant of Courthouse Square, it made sense to begin work on the basement now while the streets and sidewalks on the ground level are already being dug up. The basement portion of the project will involve replacing the existing sidewalk structural deck, adding waterproofing, insulation and drainage, and installing new steel beams and concrete slab. ... Once the basement work is completed, a master plan and estimate will be put in place at the end of this year for completing the restoration of the rest of the building, and another fundraising campaign will begin in 2017 to raise the rest of the money for the work. MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/07/07/famous-architects-jewel-box-to-be-restored.html
August 8, 20168 yr Some photos of the Louis Sullivan Old Home Bank Building in Downtown Newark at Main & Third:
September 1, 20168 yr New Music Venue “Thirty One West” Opening in Newark Downtown Newark is gaining a new live music performance space in October with the grand opening of Thirty One West. The venue, located at 31 West Church Street, was originally constructed as a dance hall and meeting space, and is in the process of being renovated and restored to its former glory. Tom Atha, owner of Newark-based Earthwork Recording Studio, purchased the building to save it from foreclosure. More below: http://www.columbusunderground.com/new-music-venue-thirty-one-west-opening-in-newark "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 29, 20168 yr Bloomberg News looks at the unique challenges of re-using the Longaberger Basket Building - "size, location, and fundamental basket-ness make it tough to sell, even at a steep discount": http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-07/selling-a-5-million-seven-story-basket-is-no-picnic
September 29, 20168 yr In another twist to re-using the Longaberger Basket Building, Licking County is close to foreclosing on the Big Basket for delinquent property taxes: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2016/09/29/1-licking-county-may-foreclose-on-basket-building.html
December 2, 20168 yr Licking Memorial adding to Newark revitalization with $8M urgent care Licking Memorial Health Systems is adding two Newark medical office buildings, $20 million worth of construction, to help the community hospital ease a space crunch, get closer to more patients and make a signature statement in downtown revitalization. The Newark system opened a $12 million Licking Memorial Medical Campus at 1717 W. Main St. in August, and it's already full, CEO Rob Montagnese said. The 37,000-square-foot office was built on hospital-owned land about a mile west of the main campus and next door to a former surgical hospital it acquired four years ago. There's room to the south for a twin office building in the future. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/12/01/licking-memorial-adding-to-newark-revitalization.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 17, 20178 yr :| Iconic Longaberger basket building headed toward foreclosure The drawn-out saga of the Longaberger Co. basket building in Newark appears headed toward a resolution. Licking County hasn't received a property tax payment on the building since 2014 and a foreclosure is imminent, Bloomberg reports. The total amount owed is a bit more than $700,000, the story says. The building is on the market for $5 million. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/03/17/iconic-longaberger-basket-building-headed-toward.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 15, 20178 yr The Licking County Courthouse in the middle of the Downtown Newark has been undergoing renovations for the past year. The renovation project is expected to be finished in October. The Columbus Dispatch has a slideshow of the current state of the project: http://www.dispatch.com/photogallery/OH/20170414/PHOTOGALLERY/414009995/PH/1
April 30, 20178 yr Some more photos of the Licking County Courthouse restoration and streetscape renovations around the courthouse square from the Newark Advocate: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/licking-county-proud/2017/02/03/development-spreads-downtown-newark-outward/97281494/
May 3, 20178 yr Residents divided on change to roundabouts on Square By Kent Mallett, Reporter - Newark Advocate January 22, 2017 - 3:03 a.m. ET Fourteen months after the first roundabout opened in downtown Newark, opinions vary from one extreme to the other about the new intersection design around the Courthouse Square. Some call the roundabouts safer, more efficient, more attractive and a definite improvement on the six traffic signals and one-way roads there before work began. Others see the change as dangerous, confusing, a detriment to business and taking away parking spaces. Work began on a $20 million utility upgrade project around the Courthouse Square that the roundabouts are part of in March 2015. Three of four roundabouts have been completed and the entire project will be completed in 2018. MORE: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2017/01/22/residents-divided-change-roundabouts-square/96786746/
May 3, 20178 yr Licking Memorial adding to Newark revitalization with $8M urgent care Licking Memorial Health Systems is adding two Newark medical office buildings, $20 million worth of construction, to help the community hospital ease a space crunch, get closer to more patients and make a signature statement in downtown revitalization. The Newark system opened a $12 million Licking Memorial Medical Campus at 1717 W. Main St. in August, and it's already full, CEO Rob Montagnese said. The 37,000-square-foot office was built on hospital-owned land about a mile west of the main campus and next door to a former surgical hospital it acquired four years ago. There's room to the south for a twin office building in the future. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/12/01/licking-memorial-adding-to-newark-revitalization.html The $8 million, 23,000-square-foot medical center operated by Licking Memorial Health Systems is now open. This building is the third new construction project built since 2012 on third corners of the Fourth and West Locust intersection, just off the Ohio 16 exit into Downtown Newark. The medical center building is designed to reflect the construction style of its two neighbors — the Heartland Bank and Jerry McClain Company headquarters. MORE: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/licking-county-proud/2017/02/03/facility-provide-medical-services-downtown/97282596/
May 3, 20178 yr Special improvement district planned for downtown area By Kent Mallett, Reporter - Newark Advocate February 16, 2017 - 5:03 p.m. ET Downtown property owners will be asked to support the creation of a Special Improvement District, which uses property assessments to pay for services for the area. The Newark Development Partners, a public-private community improvement corporation involved in numerous projects the last few years, listened to an expert on Special Improvement Districts ... who explained how an improvement district could work in Newark. MORE: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2017/02/16/special-improvement-district-planned-downtown-area/97988714/
May 5, 20178 yr The Works, Ohio State plan Newark planetarium By Jennifer Smola, The Columbus Dispatch Updated: May 4, 2017 - 4:01 PM The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art and Technology and Ohio State University’s Newark campus are teaming up to build a $1.4 million planetarium in downtown Newark, the two groups announced Thursday. The 2,220-square-foot SciDome planetarium will be located at The Works’ location on South First Street in Newark. It will house a 30-foot tilted dome with 4k digital projection and theater-style seating for 60. ( . . . ) Of the $1.4 million construction cost, OSU-Newark will contribute $600,000 and The Works will contribute $800,000. An additional $700,000 will be designated for programming and a restricted capital endowment, putting the total projected cost for the SciDome at $2.1 million. The SciDome will be a shared facility, open to The Works’ guests and school tours as well as Ohio State-Newark classes and programming. MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170504/works-ohio-state-plan-newark-planetarium
July 15, 20177 yr The Licking County Courthouse is beginning to emerge from its scaffolding: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170714/renovated-licking-county-courthouse-is-same-but-better
July 17, 20177 yr From the Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit list released by on December 20, 2016: https://www.development.ohio.gov/files/media/pressrelease/2016%201220%20Awards%20Assist%2018%20Historic%20Rehabiliation%20Projects%20-Round%2017.pdf Newark High School (Newark, Licking County) Total Project Cost: $2,995,000 Total Tax Credit: $260,000 Address: 112 W. Main Street, 43055 The former Newark High School, two blocks west of the courthouse square, will be rehabilitated into 30 market rate apartments. Many of the historic features remaining from its use as a school will be maintained such as chalkboards, wood trim, stairways, and corridors. Vacant since 2012, the building will contribute to redevelopment efforts in downtown Newark.
August 1, 20177 yr Potential Longaberger basket buyer isn't a familiar face in Central Ohio There's an offer of $1.55 million for the Longaberger basket building in Newark and the potential buyer is doing his due diligence with a decision on the deal likely to come in the next 30 days. Those details have been confirmed by the man making the offer, Doug Starnes, and through documents obtained from the Licking County Auditor's office. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/08/01/potential-longaberger-basket-buyer-isnt-a-familiar.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 4, 20177 yr ^ Update of sorts for the basket building purchase. Business First reports that the potential buyer who made a $1.55 million offer on the Longaberger basket building still is doing their due diligence on the property. Meanwhile, they were given a tour of the inside: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/08/29/photos-peek-inside-of-the-longaberger-basket.html Some views from the interior atrium of the six-story basket building. And, yes, those are the basket handles over the skylight in that last photo!
September 4, 20177 yr Nice looking interior. If only they'd built the outside like that too, and built it downtown.
September 6, 20177 yr Nice looking interior. If only they'd built the outside like that too, and built it downtown. Gosh, if,if,if,if ? If only you got to tell all the companies in Ohio where and how to build their headquarters.
September 6, 20177 yr Why would it need to be in downtown? It was part of an entertainment and factory complex on their homestead.
September 6, 20177 yr Nice looking interior. If only they'd built the outside like that too, and built it downtown. Gosh, if,if,if,if ? If only you got to tell all the companies in Ohio where and how to build their headquarters. The market has spoken and it agrees with me, which leaves the basis of your attack unclear. Why would it need to be in downtown? It was part of an entertainment and factory complex on their homestead. Because then it would have been a sensible investment, not only for its owners but for the community as well. It would have been adaptable and marketable. This area of town is mostly industry and distribution, so a large office building makes no sense there. Good spot for a truck stop though. Instead here's something so worthless and out of place, and yet so large, that the community has to bend over backwards finding a buyer to maintain it. Moral of the story? Terrible development decisions made by wealthy lunatics often have long term consequences for the rest of us. And that's why they should not be allowed to make those decisions alone. "I can afford to and you can't" does not justify absolute power.
September 6, 20177 yr Why would it need to be in downtown? It was part of an entertainment and factory complex on their homestead. The headquarters was/is not part of the Homestead. The Homestead is further east near Dresden, not in Newark.
September 6, 20177 yr Nice looking interior. If only they'd built the outside like that too, and built it downtown. Gosh, if,if,if,if ? If only you got to tell all the companies in Ohio where and how to build their headquarters. The market has spoken and it agrees with me, which leaves the basis of your attack unclear. Why would it need to be in downtown? It was part of an entertainment and factory complex on their homestead. Because then it would have been a sensible investment, not only for its owners but for the community as well. It would have been adaptable and marketable. This area of town is mostly industry and distribution, so a large office building makes no sense there. Good spot for a truck stop though. Instead here's something so worthless and out of place, and yet so large, that the community has to bend over backwards finding a buyer to maintain it. Moral of the story? Terrible development decisions made by wealthy lunatics often have long term consequences for the rest of us. And that's why they should not be allowed to make those decisions alone. "I can afford to and you can't" does not justify absolute power. And it was all built on the concept of the Late-'90s Country Room full of baskets, old swing machines, stuffed dolls with no faces and bundles of sticks. It was as goofy and short-lived of a trend as the sunken living room "conversation pits" (for doing coke) from the '70s.
January 6, 20187 yr Couple of older 2017 articles about the Licking County Land Bank acquiring and razing some properties in Newark. The first linked article listed this land bank as having 56 properties: 36 in Newark, 15 in Pataskala, four in Buckeye Lake and one in Alexandria: http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2017/01/19/land-bank-closer-removal-abandoned-gas-station/96774548/ http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2017/04/14/licking-county-land-bank-razes-vacant-homes/100323874/
January 6, 20187 yr An update on the Licking County Courthouse renovation in Downtown Newark from http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180103/parts-of-licking-county-courthouse-set-for-auction -- "The $8.5 million renovation of the Licking County Courthouse is in its final stages, with finish work being completed and a walk-through set for this month." The parts of the courthouse up for auction mentioned in the article are some 140-year-old sandstone blocks from the foundation that were removed from an area where a new elevator was installed as part of the recent renovations. (Photo of the blocks and website to bid on them are included in the above linked Dispatch article)
January 6, 20187 yr THE BASKET BUILDING HAS BEEN SOLD!!! -- Longaberger basket building sold to Canton developer, who plans multi-use facility: http://www.dispatch.com/business/20171229/longaberger-basket-building-sold-to-canton-developer-who-plans-multi-use-facility -- Longaberger basket property sells for $1.2M to developer with plans: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/12/29/longaberger-basket-building-sold-to-developer-with.html The former headquarters of the Longaberger Co. in Newark, which has stood empty for more than a year, was sold to Canton-based Coon Restoration. Coon specializes in renovating historic buildings for new residential and commercial uses, often in conjunction with historic tax credits. In the above articles, Steve Coon, a principal at the company, said they plan to place the seven-story, 180,000 sq. ft. building that opened in 1997 on the National Register of Historic Places. They're a little iffy on the final uses for the renovated Basket Building, but indicate a majority office-use is likely. According to the above articles, Coon’s company has a long list of historic renovation projects - beginning in 1976 with restoration work on the McKinley National Memorial in Canton. Other major projects by Coon Restoration include Cleveland's Terminal Tower, Canton's Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial tower at Put-in-Bay. The company has also done some renovation projects in the City of Newark at the Old Licking County Jail and at the Pennsylvania Train Station. In 2017, Coon was honored with the Preservation Hero Award by Heritage Ohio, the statewide nonprofit that encourages revitalization and preservation of historic buildings.
January 9, 20187 yr Hmmm. I'm a little jittery at this. At the very least, just going from memory, the Historic Onesto Hotel renovation in downtown Canton was/is a Coon project and took a ridiculous amount of time and basically lost all its momentum. To be perfectly honest, without Googling (which I'm too lazy to do this morning), I don't even know if that project ever finished. This project looks to be an order of magnitude more complex (the Onesto physically wasn't all that large, and of course was a more normal shape), and the Onesto was right in Coon's backyard, so to speak.
January 9, 20187 yr Presumably there isn't as much work to be done on this. The building is almost brand new.
September 19, 20186 yr Intersection opening completes downtown project By Kent Mallett, Newark Advocate Updated: Sept. 11, 2018 - 4:31 p.m. The city's $22 million downtown utility upgrade project, which began in March 2015 on South Second Street, concluded with Friday's opening of North Second Street, and the intersection with Church Street. The massive project included the separation of storm and sanitary sewers, mandated by the EPA to prevent combined sewer overflows into the Licking River. Roads on and around the Courthouse Square closed in segments as crews worked deep underground. The city decided to take advantage of the opportunity to reshape the area, changing traffic patterns, pedestrian crossings, parking and streetscapes. Roundabouts, two-way travel, new sidewalks, LED lighting, bioswales, plants and grasses were added to the Square, and traffic signals were removed. "It was a long process," Mayor Jeff Hall said. "We appreciate the residents traveling through downtown and the businesses had patience through this project. It's been a major one. It's been tough on the businesses. "When it got to the end it was a single intersection, black-topped, striped and removed the barricades. It was kind of a silent opening." The downtown improvements have not been limited to the city's work, however, as Licking County government also restored the Licking County Courthouse. MORE: https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2018/09/11/opening-second-church-intersection-completes-downtown-project/1265287002/
September 19, 20186 yr About the restored Licking County Courthouse mentioned in the previous article on the city's $22 million downtown utility upgrade and streetscape project at Newark's Courthouse Square. Last Sunday, the county held a dedication ceremony and public tours for their finished building renovation projects in Downtown Newark. The most prominent was the renovation of the Licking County Courthouse, built in 1876. But the county also held a dedication and public tour for the East Main Street Annex/Child Support building at 65 E. Main Street - located 1/2 block east of the Licking County Courthouse & Courthouse Square - that was previously a three-story office building for the Ohio Power Company. A dedication and public tour was also held for the newly-opened Licking County Records and Archives Center, located in the rear of the East Main Street Annex at 61 E. Main Street. The news articles linked below about the county renovation projects didn't contain any photos of the East Main Street Annex at 61-65 E. Main Street - so here is the most recent google streetview of that three-story office building - it is from Sept. 2016 while the Licking County Courthouse tower was still covered during its restoration: Here's more about the renovated Licking County Courthouse and the other county building's renovated in Downtown Newark from the Columbus Dispatch and the Newark Advocate: http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180917/licking-county-shows-off-renovated-courthouse https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/2018/09/15/renovated-county-government-buildings-opened-sunday-public-viewing/1306608002/
September 19, 20186 yr TenThirtyOne aerial service had some photos of the finished Licking County Courthouse renovation at its flickr page. Here are a few aerial views from that page, with much larger versions noted by a link at the posted image: Larger version at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tenthirtyone/ Larger version at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tenthirtyone/ Larger version at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tenthirtyone/
September 19, 20186 yr They did a fantastic job. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 23, 20195 yr Longaberger basket building owner teams with new partner, eyes 'luxury boutique hotel' for distinctive property After years of dreaming of future uses for Longaberger Co.’s infamous former basket-shaped headquarters in Newark, Canton-area developer Steve Coonsays he now has a game plan and a partner to turn it into a hotel. David Crisafi of Ceres Enterprises, a Westlake hotel development firm with at least seven hotels in its portfolio, has become a partner in Coon’s project, Coon said. Crisafi was not immediately available for comment Tuesday. Coon said the team wants to attract Marriott or Hilton to operate a hotel inside the giant basket-shaped building. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/10/22/longaberger-basket-building-owner-teams-with-new.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
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