Columbus City and Suburban Development News (Cleveland, Cincinnati: train station, Dutch, comparisons)

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Battelle Memorial Institute, which is selling the 19-acre site between West Fifth Avenue and West Third Avenue to an as-yet undisclosed private developer, has notified customers of its Battelle Discovery Center that the day care will close next September as construction is expected to get underway.

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...ison-west.html

The 19 acres are the Olentengy River frontage, on the East bank, between W. 5th ave and W. 3rd ave.

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398-Unit Residential Project Planned in Weinland Park | ColumbusUnderground.com


The Grant Park development in Weinland Park will expand by another 398 units in a mix of condos, townhomes and apartments on the east side of Grant Avenue. Construction will begin next year.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...-veterans.html


The new Vets may get bigger in scale by potentially becoming a national museum and memorial for veterans.

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250 New Apartments Could Be on Tap for Harrison West | ColumbusUnderground.com


Older news, but I don't think I ever posted it here. Up to 250-280 residential units may come to 871 Ingleside Street in Harrison West.

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Four-Story Building Approved for UDF Site in Short North | ColumbusUnderground.com


The UDF mixed-use project has been approved at 1 story taller than originally proposed. It will be 4 stories with restaurant-retail space wrapping from High around to Pearl Alley, with office space above.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...expansion.html


CoGo bike share may expand by another 26 stations and 232 bikes next year, including to Bexley, Upper Arlington, Grandview and 13 more stations in Columbus. That would bring the total stations to 71 and total bikes to almost 600.

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City to redo the N.High streetscape from Italian Village to the south end of the OSU campus.

Short North streetscape upgrades planned as city sets High Street overhaul
Sep 30, 2016, 4:28pm EDT Updated Sep 30, 2016, 4:44pm EDT

Columbus is planning to improve the streetscape along High Street from north of downtown to the Ohio State campus area, including the length of the Short North.

The project is expected to begin next spring, focusing first on High Street across from the Greater Columbus Convention Center and between Seventh and Ninth avenues, just south of the South Campus Gateway.

“We are trying to do everything we can to get that done before fall semester begins,” Steve Cordetti, spokesman for the Columbus Department of Public Service, said of the northernmost portion of the project. “The main part of the Short North is still a couple years away.”

The initial phases, dubbed the first and fourth by the city, have an estimated price tag of $7.7 million. The funding is subject to Columbus City Council approval...

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...d-as-city.html

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Company proposes 274 'studio suites' for students near Ohio State | The Columbus Dispatch


A 274-unit, 5-story student housing project has been proposed for 200 W. Norwich Avenue.

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Originally Posted by Clever nickname here

City to redo the N.High streetscape from Italian Village to the south end of the OSU campus.


http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...d-as-city.html

Bizjournals was way clearer than the Dispatch whose headline cited losing the street to bicycles as well. I thought the "new bike lanes" they were referring to would be protected by parked cars and that they were looking at Summit and 4th before committing. I thought Columbus might one up Minneapolis by putting bike lanes, protected even, right on High St in the Short North whereas we've been able to put bikeways everywhere in our Short North (Uptown) except right on the main streets where all of the walkable businesses are, but no bikeways of any sort can be found. Now I see that they're just going to paint sharrows, which High St already has and are just continuing the status quo. That's what I get for actually thinking that Columbus got it right for once.

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...d-as-city.html

What's especially bad about this project is that they're doing a major rehaul of High St and yet there is not a single word of how BRT might be incorporated into this. There's no hint of this even sitting somewhere in the back of someone's deep subconscious: not even on CU or Columbus Reddit. Which, of course, just goes to show how Columbus is amateur hour for urbanism; not even the most remedial consideration of basic, fundamental infrastructure even gets a passing mention in the face of a major once-in-a-bluemoon upgrade on the city's premier urban street. No, instead Columbus is going to protect parked cars, because clearly, empty chunks of metal are most in need of protextion as opposed to pedestrians and cyclists.

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Originally Posted by Mplsite

Bizjournals was way clearer than the Dispatch whose headline cited losing the street to bicycles as well. I thought the "new bike lanes" they were referring to would be protected by parked cars and that they were looking at Summit and 4th before committing. I thought Columbus might one up Minneapolis by putting bike lanes, protected even, right on High St in the Short North whereas we've been able to put bikeways everywhere in our Short North (Uptown) except right on the main streets where all of the walkable businesses are, but no bikeways of any sort can be found. Now I see that they're just going to paint sharrows, which High St already has and are just continuing the status quo. That's what I get for actually thinking that Columbus got it right for once.

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/...d-as-city.html

What's especially bad about this project is that they're doing a major rehaul of High St and yet there is not a single word of how BRT might be incorporated into this. There's no hint of this even sitting somewhere in the back of someone's deep subconscious: not even on CU or Columbus Reddit. Which, of course, just goes to show how Columbus is amateur hour for urbanism; not even the most remedial consideration of basic, fundamental infrastructure even gets a passing mention in the face of a major once-in-a-bluemoon upgrade on the city's premier urban street. No, instead Columbus is going to protect parked cars, because clearly, empty chunks of metal are most in need of protextion as opposed to pedestrians and cyclists.

Cool story. Again why are you comparing these metros that are not even on the same league as each other. We get it, MSP is amazing but why the comparison? When Columbus reaches over three million people, then we can start comparing it to what MSP was at the point in time. Columbus is just now approaching what MSP was in 1970

http://www.city-data.com/forum/city-...ns-1970-a.html

MSP Blue line opened in 2004. MSP MSA population... 3,000,000 people. Interesting you are complaining that Cbus has yet to build BRT/light rail system when MSP finished theirs at the 3,000,000 threshold.

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