March 4, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, VintageLife said: Somebody on Reddit said that is the size of the lot and not the houses. Well they'd be wrong. The lots will average ~13,000 square feet i.e. roughly a quarter acre.
March 4, 20232 yr 22 minutes ago, aderwent said: Well they'd be wrong. The lots will average ~13,000 square feet i.e. roughly a quarter acre. That’s insane hahah. Especially with 1.8 houses per acre. I’m surprised people with that big of house would want to live close to others.
March 5, 20232 yr How do you fit an 8,000 sq. Ft. House on .25 arces? The houses will be like 3 feet between each one.
March 5, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, VintageLife said: That’s insane hahah. Especially with 1.8 houses per acre. I’m surprised people with that big of house would want to live close to others. Have you ever driven through New Albany? Even house that back up to the country club are pretty close together. Their lots are smaller than these lots and many of the houses ~8k square feet. The good thing about being filthy rich is you can afford quality landscaping that provides quality privacy even if you neighbor is only 200 feet away.
March 5, 20232 yr 9 hours ago, Toddguy said: Those homes will all be huge. The majority of them a minimum of 8,125 feet? Wow. This place will be a gated community, right? I would love to see floorplans for these. I'll probably get to do just that soon
March 21, 20232 yr Spoiler alert: no (public) plans yet. With New Albany land in hand, OhioHealth eyes Canal Winchester and Sunbury purchases to grow suburban holdings “OhioHealth quietly bought 57 acres in November 2020 from the New Albany Company at Beech Road and Route 161, the center of the city's Licking County business park, according to property records. So far it has spent $12 million on the acquisition, according to the system. CEO Steve Markovich told Columbus Business Firstthat he could not predict what or when OhioHealth would build anything there. "We have a strategy based on keeping care close to home," Markovich said in an interview. "You should never be more than 10 minutes away from an OhioHealth emergency department, and never more than 20 minutes from a hospital." Markovich also said the system is acquiring land in Sunbury and Canal Winchester. Those purchases have not closed, a spokesman said later, so the locations are not public.” https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/03/20/ohiohealth-new-albany-land.html
March 21, 20232 yr 11 hours ago, amped91 said: Spoiler alert: no (public) plans yet. With New Albany land in hand, OhioHealth eyes Canal Winchester and Sunbury purchases to grow suburban holdings “OhioHealth quietly bought 57 acres in November 2020 from the New Albany Company at Beech Road and Route 161, the center of the city's Licking County business park, according to property records. So far it has spent $12 million on the acquisition, according to the system. CEO Steve Markovich told Columbus Business Firstthat he could not predict what or when OhioHealth would build anything there. "We have a strategy based on keeping care close to home," Markovich said in an interview. "You should never be more than 10 minutes away from an OhioHealth emergency department, and never more than 20 minutes from a hospital." Markovich also said the system is acquiring land in Sunbury and Canal Winchester. Those purchases have not closed, a spokesman said later, so the locations are not public.” https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/03/20/ohiohealth-new-albany-land.html Licking Memorial also purchased land on Old 161 at Patterson just a bit down the road. It will be nice to have more accessible health care options out that way.
April 10, 20232 yr Epcon Communities to purchase more than 63 acres for proposed empty-nester housing development in New Albany "A local homebuilder is planning to develop a residential community for empty-nesters in New Albany. Dublin-based Epcon Communities is in contract to purchase 63.5 acres of property for a new development called Courtyards at Haines Creek. The site is located at the northwest corner of the Central College Road and Jug Street intersection, city documents show. Courtyards at Haines Creek will include 151 luxury ranch homes." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/04/10/courtyards-at-haines-creek-new-albany.html
April 10, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Luvcbus said: Epcon Communities to purchase more than 63 acres for proposed empty-nester housing development in New Albany "A local homebuilder is planning to develop a residential community for empty-nesters in New Albany. Dublin-based Epcon Communities is in contract to purchase 63.5 acres of property for a new development called Courtyards at Haines Creek. The site is located at the northwest corner of the Central College Road and Jug Street intersection, city documents show. Courtyards at Haines Creek will include 151 luxury ranch homes." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/04/10/courtyards-at-haines-creek-new-albany.html I wonder how many of the 151 ranch homes will go to ordinary people looking for a nice place to live and how many will be bought up by Wall Street investment firms like BlackRock or another?
April 10, 20232 yr 16 minutes ago, John7165 said: I wonder how many of the 151 ranch homes will go to ordinary people looking for a nice place to live and how many will be bought up by Wall Street investment firms like BlackRock or another? It's New Albany. They'll have people fighting each other to buy these homes before they even start clearing dirt. New builds are not sitting empty. They are getting moved into the second they are ready while your neighbors house is still a slab of concrete. Edited April 10, 20232 yr by TIm
April 11, 20232 yr 4 hours ago, John7165 said: I wonder how many of the 151 ranch homes will go to ordinary people looking for a nice place to live and how many will be bought up by Wall Street investment firms like BlackRock or another? yea Columbus isn’t the market that’s happening in… if it was you’d see rentals, there are barely any corporate rentals out there let alone
April 11, 20232 yr 20 hours ago, Luvcbus said: Epcon Communities to purchase more than 63 acres for proposed empty-nester housing development in New Albany "A local homebuilder is planning to develop a residential community for empty-nesters in New Albany. Dublin-based Epcon Communities is in contract to purchase 63.5 acres of property for a new development called Courtyards at Haines Creek. The site is located at the northwest corner of the Central College Road and Jug Street intersection, city documents show. Courtyards at Haines Creek will include 151 luxury ranch homes." https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/04/10/courtyards-at-haines-creek-new-albany.html Strange location to be building a development for people who have either left, or will soon be leaving, the job market.
April 14, 20232 yr New Albany to consider adding another 605 acres of annexed property to Oak Grove CRA “The city of New Albany is looking to add hundreds of additional acres to a community reinvestment area in an effort to support future development. A resolution on Tuesday's New Albany City Council agenda would expand the Oak Grove II CRA by about 605 acres of property that has already been annexed and zoned within Licking County. There are six separate properties: […] The CRA/opportunity zone expansion would enable New Albany to offer real property tax exemptions on construction of new structures and the remodeling of existing structures on the acreage, city documents show. Those incentives would help promote commercial and industrial development, which the city says will encourage economic stability, maintain real property values and generate new employment opportunities. Josh Poland, chief communications and marketing officer for the city of New Albany, said the city is not currently aware of any companies in contract to build in this area. He said the expansion is more about being ready for potential projects in the future.” https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2023/04/14/new-albany-oak-grove-ii-cra-expansion.html
April 14, 20232 yr Say what you will about New Albany, but they are being quite proactive about their future which is always good to see.
April 14, 20232 yr 12 minutes ago, TIm said: Say what you will about New Albany, but they are being quite proactive about their future which is always good to see. If only they would add density to all this, it would be even better
April 14, 20232 yr I wonder what the people in the subdivision that will be surrounded now think? I hope they get bought out. And yes to density they could have room for a whole Easton as it should be done now just with more housing less retail and more like a Bridge Park or something. A nice big dense node that would make it worthwhile to extend a light rail line to from Downtown serving the airport and Easton as well.
April 14, 20232 yr 33 minutes ago, Toddguy said: I wonder what the people in the subdivision that will be surrounded now think? I hope they get bought out. And yes to density they could have room for a whole Easton as it should be done now just with more housing less retail and more like a Bridge Park or something. A nice big dense node that would make it worthwhile to extend a light rail line to from Downtown serving the airport and Easton as well. Ahem...WITH TOWERS!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 15, 20232 yr 21 hours ago, ColDayMan said: Ahem...WITH TOWERS!!! Hmmmph. New Albany will never be an Irvine, or Irving, or even a Reston. So much like the "city"(if you can even call it that)of which it is a satellite, so sub-par and no 30 story towers and the whole place is doomed etc. Just look at Bellevue, WA-we will never have anything like that-a suburb that puts our own downtown to shame! -so Columbus of us. Worst Regards, Jman.
April 15, 20232 yr Some on this board are better connected to actual developers than people like me. What is their aversion to building these towers? Financial? Not enough demand to fill the towers? I thought with Intel and all of the companies supporting them, the demand for housing would be so strong that a high rise(s) would seem to make sense. Maybe they will come, but not so far.
April 15, 20232 yr 26 minutes ago, John7165 said: Maybe they will come, but not so far. Land is too cheap and lots are too big. No need to build tall when you can buy big plots that dont require the extra expense of building tall to maximize profit. We see it with Easton specifically. They tease high rises and are the most likely and most reasonable place for them but it's still not entirely financially lucrative for them. In time. Whether that's in the next 5 years or 20 years is yet to be seen.
April 15, 20232 yr Intel and the suppliers likely to be attracted by them are all industrial / distribution type development. They need sprawling low rise warehouse type buildings, not office towers. The type of work being done by and large isn't what occurs in a corporate office Concurrenly that sector of employement, large corporate office jobs - which is what would fill office towers, is currently in limbo as a result of long term increase in work from home spurred on by COVID. Office as a sector is in big trouble right now Edited April 15, 20232 yr by NW24HX
April 15, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, NW24HX said: Intel and the suppliers likely to be attracted by them are all industrial / distribution type development. They need sprawling low rise warehouse type buildings, not office towers. The type of work being done by and large isn't what occurs in a corporate office Concurrenly that sector of employement, large corporate office jobs - which is what would fill office towers, is currently in limbo as a result of long term increase in work from home spurred on by COVID. Office as a sector is in big trouble right now That’s partially why I am okay with most buildings in Columbus being 20-25, with occasional 30 and higher. With office being more and more work from home, those super tall towers aren’t going to happen until downtown only has about 5 lots left.
April 21, 20232 yr I could have sworn this was posted somewhere in these forums last year, but I can't find it. New Albany Co. purchases 10 acres for more than $2M https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/07/12/new-albany-company-purchases-vacant-land.html I never realized this is situated in Columbus city limits. Thrive Companies is proposing a 424-unit apartment building/complex here.
April 21, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, aderwent said: Thrive Companies is proposing a 424-unit apartment building/complex here. That seems like a lot of units for that amount of space. The HQ Flats which is part of the Hamilton Quarter development was 550 units for a lot that's about twice the size of this one. I wonder if we'll end up seeing something like a 6 story building here.
April 21, 20232 yr 12 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: That seems like a lot of units for that amount of space. The HQ Flats which is part of the Hamilton Quarter development was 550 units for a lot that's about twice the size of this one. I wonder if we'll end up seeing something like a 6 story building here. Phase 8 of Jeffrey Park is 310 units in five stories on 4 acres. My guess is two three story buildings. Although maybe they'll include some green space and a garage and we'll get a six floor.
April 21, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, aderwent said: I could have sworn this was posted somewhere in these forums last year, but I can't find it. New Albany Co. purchases 10 acres for more than $2M https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/07/12/new-albany-company-purchases-vacant-land.html I never realized this is situated in Columbus city limits. Thrive Companies is proposing a 424-unit apartment building/complex here. The grass patch just north of this site is in Columbus too. Maybe someone can replicate this first proposal and give us over 800 housing units in a place where we could really use some units.
April 21, 20232 yr 12 minutes ago, Toddguy said: The grass patch just north of this site is in Columbus too. Maybe someone can replicate this first proposal and give us over 800 housing units in a place where we could really use some units. Ohio Health has owned that since 2000.
April 21, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, aderwent said: Ohio Health has owned that since 2000. Oh well there goes that. *sigh*
May 2, 20232 yr I was over by Bubbly Hall yesterday. I noticed this lot across the street had a sign saying something about mixed retail and residences coming in 2025. Labeled "Bubbly Corner". Apparently the same company who did Bubbly Hall bought this in 2021 and plans two, three story apartment-over-retail buildings along Central College, and five suburban two story, four-unit condos at the rear of the property. And of course a massive surface lot between the two.
May 10, 20232 yr On 4/21/2023 at 12:47 PM, aderwent said: I could have sworn this was posted somewhere in these forums last year, but I can't find it. New Albany Co. purchases 10 acres for more than $2M https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/07/12/new-albany-company-purchases-vacant-land.html I never realized this is situated in Columbus city limits. Thrive Companies is proposing a 424-unit apartment building/complex here. Thrive strikes again. Seven buildings with >500 entirely surface lot parking spaces. The two buildings along Walton will be three floors. The other five will be four.
May 10, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, aderwent said: Thrive strikes again. Seven buildings with >500 entirely surface lot parking spaces. The two buildings along Walton will be three floors. The other five will be four. Looks terrible, but fits in New Albany. Just blows my mind why they don’t do a central parking garage surrounded by buildings. The pointe at Polaris did a decent job of this, at least way better than this crap. I’m happy they made Jeffery park nice, but damn did they miss the home run it should have been.
May 10, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, VintageLife said: Looks terrible, but fits in New Albany. Just blows my mind why they don’t do a central parking garage surrounded by buildings. The pointe at Polaris did a decent job of this, at least way better than this crap. I’m happy they made Jeffery park nice, but damn did they miss the home run it should have been. New Albany proper has much, much better development than this. This is using up the entirety of the parcel with very little greenspace. Awful development. This really should have been like the Pointe projects.
May 11, 20232 yr Is this a building we already know about? Also if this should be in the Westerville section, my bad.
May 11, 20232 yr 49 minutes ago, VintageLife said: Is this a building we already know about? Also if this should be in the Westerville section, my bad. Really these should be in the random development thread. Westerville zip code, but Columbus city limits and Columbus City Schools district. However, the area is colloquially called New Albany. As far as this site I saw across Warner from UDF is under construction a Turkey Hill. These are probably just outlot buildings along Hamilton. UDF is also renovating in anticipation of Hamilton widening to two lanes in each direction from 161 to Central College. Also, across Hamilton from UDF is under construction something as well. I thought it was Columbus Recs and Parks land, but I haven't seen anything about what is being built. Edited May 11, 20232 yr by aderwent
May 11, 20232 yr 10 minutes ago, aderwent said: Really these should be in the random development thread. Westerville zip code, but Columbus city limits and Columbus City Schools district. But the area is colloquially called New Albany. As far as this site I saw across Warner from UDF in under construction a Turkey Hill. These are probably just outlot buildings along Hamilton. UDF is also renovating in anticipation of Hamilton widening to two lanes in each direction from 161 to Central College. Also, across Hamilton from UDF is under construction something as well. I thought it was Columbus Recs and Parks land, but I haven't seen anything about what is being built. I’m just happy to see it say retail/restaurant building with possible future development of parking lots.
May 11, 20232 yr 26 minutes ago, VintageLife said: I’m just happy to see it say retail/restaurant building with possible future development of parking lots. This is actually for the SE corner of Hamilton and Warner. So not the outlots on the west side of Hamilton.
June 12, 20232 yr Proposal from Thrive to build 436 units near New Albany in an apt community titled Moore’s Edge:
June 12, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, amped91 said: Proposal from Thrive to build 436 units near New Albany in an apt community titled Moore’s Edge: At least the parking will be somewhat hidden from the street.
June 12, 20232 yr 21 minutes ago, ink said: ^Is that within the City of Columbus? I think. That’s what the agenda says. https://columbusohdev.app.box.com/s/gvvg7o7k8208z4toef73qy3lkidxshwv
June 12, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, ink said: ^Is that within the City of Columbus? Yes. On 4/21/2023 at 12:47 PM, aderwent said: I could have sworn this was posted somewhere in these forums last year, but I can't find it. New Albany Co. purchases 10 acres for more than $2M https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/07/12/new-albany-company-purchases-vacant-land.html I never realized this is situated in Columbus city limits. Thrive Companies is proposing a 424-unit apartment building/complex here. Edited June 12, 20232 yr by aderwent
June 12, 20232 yr Forty units an acre is not bad. There are ten acre empty plots all over the place-we could use some more of these. Edited June 12, 20232 yr by Toddguy
August 1, 20231 yr Messer Construction put in for a permit for a tower crane and parking garage construction in downtown New Albany. It'll be between the City Hall and Police Department buildings. Weirdly, I can't find anything about it elsewhere. It's listed as a commercial development and 37 feet tall. So I could see a 3-4 story garage with commercial lining Village Hall Rd as seen here: I believe the extension of the Rose Run Park across Main Street/62 is in progress. It'll be a veterans memorial located in the blue section above. The red along Dublin Granville Rd was recommended to be infill in the master plan for this area.
August 21, 20231 yr On 8/1/2023 at 12:01 PM, aderwent said: Messer Construction put in for a permit for a tower crane and parking garage construction in downtown New Albany. It'll be between the City Hall and Police Department buildings. Weirdly, I can't find anything about it elsewhere. It's listed as a commercial development and 37 feet tall. So I could see a 3-4 story garage with commercial lining Village Hall Rd as seen here: I believe the extension of the Rose Run Park across Main Street/62 is in progress. It'll be a veterans memorial located in the blue section above. The red along Dublin Granville Rd was recommended to be infill in the master plan for this area. New Albany is planning to extend Market Street to the east of High Street seen here (Reynoldsburg-New Albany Rd to the south of here). It will curve up to 3rd Street. 62 will now align to continue down 3rd instead of Main Street. Construction to start next year. https://newalbanyohio.org/answers/market-extension/ Edited August 21, 20231 yr by aderwent adding links
August 29, 20231 yr On 8/21/2023 at 12:00 PM, aderwent said: New Albany is planning to extend Market Street to the east of High Street seen here (Reynoldsburg-New Albany Rd to the south of here). It will curve up to 3rd Street. 62 will now align to continue down 3rd instead of Main Street. Construction to start next year. Yes, yes yes! It always bothered me how development just dead-ends between the West and East sides of Reynoldsburg - New Albany Road. It also helps thicken the original downtown area rather than flying by it in like five seconds lol.
September 12, 20231 yr New Albany Hosts Grand Opening for Taylor Farm Park: Phase One Community members within New Albany gathered on August 29 to celebrate the grand opening of Taylor Farm Park…Phase One. The new park is built on the site of the historic Taylor Farm, 5526 E. Dublin Granville Rd. in New Albany, a nearly 100-acre site with nearly 200 years of community history. It’s bound by Rocky Fork Creek, Dublin-Granville Road, Harlem Road and State Route 161. The new attraction “posed a unique opportunity for the city to highlight a historically significant homestead, create an enjoyable recreational experience for residents, and also return farmland to native vegetation and forested and emergent wetlands,” said Anna van der Zwaag, a planner with the City of New Albany. More below: https://columbusunderground.com/new-albany-hosts-grand-opening-for-taylor-farm-park-phase-one-ca1/ "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 19, 20241 yr New Albany officials seek input on growth U.S 62/State Route 161 area targeted in plans "The city of New Albany wants to know what residents, business owners and community leaders think when it comes to developing one of the city’s areas targeted for growth: A 573-acre chunk of land around the intersection of U.S. 62 and state Route 161. The city has created a 21-member steering committee to lead a planning process for what is called the 62 Interchange Focus Area Plan. The plan is meant to become a guide as the area develops. The area is a mix of residential, business and undeveloped land that is directly north of state Route 161. The northern boundary runs along Central College Road. and the eastern boundary is Blacklick Creek. On the west, the boundary flanks residential parcels next to undeveloped areas of land. The planning effort started in February with a goal of finishing by the end of the year." https://www.dispatch.com/
June 5, 20241 yr I am considering opening another FERA location in New Albany and am seeking information on upcoming commercial and retail developments in the area. I have inquired about Market Square, but they are currently only leasing vacant spaces to restaurants. Additionally, I have explored opportunities in the Historic Village, though I am concerned about its suitability for a new men's and women's boutique and the potential for walkable traffic. While I appreciate the charm of the historic area, I am uncertain about the timeline for its full development. I am particularly interested in learning more about the future development phases, specifically regarding the expansion around High Street from Rose Run. Any insights or updates on these plans would be greatly appreciated. Edited June 5, 20241 yr by FERA.co .
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