City Mills Hotel, Restaurant, Craft Brewery---Yes!

[Fountain-of-youth]

Originally Posted by amyers3

With RiverWalk going through the middle of this project, my understanding is that they're already in construction to get this site ready.

I believe brewery was replaced with restaurant.

Which mean the Hampton Inn project will be push back even further.

[amyers3]

Originally Posted by Fountain-of-youth

Which mean the Hampton Inn project will be push back even further.

Y'all are killing me.

[Columbus1984]

Originally Posted by Fountain-of-youth

Which mean the Hampton Inn project will be push back even further.

These two projects have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Geez.

[columbusboy8]

Originally Posted by Columbus1984

These two projects have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Geez.

The next opening of significance locally is the October 20 Grand Opening of Historic Westville in Columbus, www.westville.org which is right across the street from the National Infantry Museum, National Infantry Museum & Soldier Center and right next door to Oxbow Meadows! www.oxbow.columbusstate.edu

Wouldn't it be awesome if there could be some kind of water transportation from there to the National Civil War Naval Museum!! www.portcolumbus.org

[JayHey]

City Mills - November 17, 2018 - by Jim Gates

This video was flown with Phantom 4 Pro and Mavic Pro drones.

Last Saturday my partner and I took our drones to the City Mills site and did video and stills to document the progress being made. Here is a recent published interview describing this project:

More than three years after a local attorney and the Historic Columbus Foundation joined forces to save and revitalize one of the city’s most historic riverfront sites, a deal has been reached to put a restaurant and boutique hotel in City Mills.

Columbus businessman Jack Pezold acquired a controlling interest in the historic City Mills property just north of the downtown TSYS campus and is planning between 40 and 50 hotel rooms and a restaurant on the property, said Tracy Sayers, chief operating officer for the Pezold companies.

The deal between attorney Ken Henson, Historic Columbus and Family Holdings Inc., a real estate development company under the Pezold umbrella, was reached last month. In May 2015, Henson purchased the property that had been owned for nearly a half century by the Lloyd G. Bowers III family. It ceased to operate as a grist mill in the late 1980s and had fallen into disrepair that threatened the long-term viability of the structures, one of five mill sites included in the Columbus Industrial Riverfront National Landmark District.

After the acquisition, Henson was joined in the project by the Historic Columbus, a nonprofit organization that has been at the center of many of the city’s revitalization efforts for the last 50 years, to partner in the stabilization of the two multi-story brick 1890s structures on the site. Henson and Historic Columbus were more than $2.5 million into the acquisition and stabilization of the 13-acre site when Pezold purchased 50 percent of City Mills and became the managing partner, Sayers said. Henson and Historic Columbus retained an ownership stake in the property, Sayers said.

Pezold owns Valley Hospitality, which owns and manages restaurants in Columbus and the surrounding area, and that makes his involvement ideal to complete this project, Henson said.

“This is the best-case scenario that we would have hoped for at City Mills,” Henson said. “We could never figure out a way to make money with this project. Now that they are involved, we have a much better chance of breaking even.”

Sayers said this is a project that needed to be done because of the significance of City Mills, which was the city’s first industrial site.

“For us, this was about being a good neighbor,” Sayers said. “There is no money to be made in this, but we looked at it and thought somebody had to do it. We didn’t go looking for this project. It found us. And when we looked at it, we thought it would be something good for the city.”

The project will cost between $10 million and $12 million to complete, Sayers said.

[Columbus1984]

Any update on this project? Would love to see a brewery happen.

[amyers3]

Originally Posted by Columbus1984

Any update on this project? Would love to see a brewery happen.

Site work is still underway to complete the River Walk & add parking I believe, then they'll be able to start on the other.

[Columbus1984]

Originally Posted by amyers3

Site work is still underway to complete the River Walk & add parking I believe, then they'll be able to start on the other.

Is a brewery still in the works?