Brent Warren

The City of Columbus is moving forward with a plan to install protected bike lanes along East Broad Street on the Near East Side. Workers started striping the new lanes this week, and later this month and into November will install vertical separators and new bus pads to help minimize any potential conflicts between cyclists […]

The latest plan for the next phase of The Peninsula development calls for a 15-story building that would hold apartments, a parking garage, and a first-floor grocery store. Site plans and renderings of the proposed building, which would sit at the southwest corner of West Broad and Belle Streets, were submitted to the city in […]

The first residents have moved into The Ethan, a new four-story apartment building at 1179. E. Main St. The 85-unit building was developed by a joint venture made up of Peak 10 Group, F & W Properties and Gallas-Zadeh Development. Clare Brofford of F & W Properties was part of the development team and is also […]

The building that held the Spaghetti Warehouse restaurant for decades and has stood at 397 W. Broad St. for over a century will likely be torn down before the end of the year. The Downtown Commission cleared the way for the demolition this morning, granting its approval after hearing more details about the deteriorating condition […]

The City of Dublin is ramping up its efforts to redevelop Metro Center, outlining a plan for the large suburban office park that calls for new mixed-use buildings and a central greenspace. Work on the plan, which was presented to the community in early October as part of the city’s larger 2024 Economic Development Strategy, […]

Front Street and Marconi Boulevard will run in both directions all the way through Downtown starting next week. Front Street south of Broad Street was converted from one-way to two-way operation over a decade ago, as was Civic Center Drive (Marconi turns into Civic Center south of Broad). The conversion of the northern sections of […]

The $8 billion LinkUS initiative is officially moving forward with the passage of Issue 47 last night. Voters within the Central Ohio Transit Authority’s service area (all of Franklin County and small parts of several surrounding counties) approved a half-percent sales tax increase that will fund significant investments in transit and transportation-related infrastructure. COTA has […]

Design work has progressed on the Capital Line, the two-mile bike and pedestrian loop Downtown that was first announced in February.

A rendering of the new terminal, by Gensler and Moody Nolan.

The plan for Downtown (dark blue = protected bike lane, light blue = conventional bike lane, green = trail or shared use path)