Brent Warren

The Ohio State University Board of Trustees voted this week on a resolution that clears the way for the university to lease about 200,000 square feet of space in a downtown building. The space is located in the 13-story Huntington Bank/Capitol Square Building at 17 S. High St., one of three buildings sold in in […]

The owner of a large vacant tract on the Hilltop that was once touted by the City of Columbus as a future park and nature preserve blames city staff for the deal falling through. The triangular piece of land, sometimes called the Whitethorne Woods property, is located north of Eakin Road and east of Whitethorne […]

In April, leaders from Columbus City Schools and Columbus City Council held a press event to announce a new formal partnership that would focus on “shared priorities such as school safety, attendance, facilities, land use, and community development.” “Columbus City Schools is facing real and significant challenges: shrinking financial support from the state of Ohio, […]

Local officials gathered this morning for a groundbreaking ceremony at the intersection of Orders Road and Hoover Road in Grove City. The project being celebrated will bring a new, wider shared-use path to the west side of the Hoover Road bridge that travels over I-71. The new path, separated from the roadway by a row […]

Demolition of the former Holy Rosary School building on the Near East Side has begun. Located at 498 Berkeley Rd., the building is part of the larger Holy Rosary campus on East Main Street. Still standing on the site is the former Holy Rosary Church building itself and the adjacent rectory building – which both […]

City of Columbus officials revealed more details this week about how they plan on distributing around $500 million in affordable housing bond funding that was approved by voters last fall. A Notice of Funding Availability was posted on Monday with different guidelines that could make it easier for smaller developers to gain access to the […]

Dora Lofts, a new apartment complex in Woodland Park, celebrated its grand opening earlier this week. Located at 1608 Greenway Ave., the 18-unit development features five two-bedroom units and 13 one-bedrooms, all priced to be affordable for those earning 80 percent or less of the area median income (rents range from about $1,200 to $1,400). […]

A new proposal from Dublin-based developer Crawford Hoying would bring nearly 600 residential units as well as office, hotel and retail uses to a 17-acre site on Wilson Bridge Road in Worthington. Currently on the site are three office buildings (400, 450, and 500 W. Wilson Bridge Rd.) which were constructed in the 1970s. Purchased […]

Cyclists are already using the city’s new protected bike lane on North Fourth Street, although work on the project is not expected to be complete until mid-July. Previously, the street had an unprotected bike lane that stretched from Warren Street to Hudson Street, with on-street parking along each curb. Under the new alignment, the bike […]

After decades of discussions about Downtown’s extremely wide streets and how they could be reconfigured to be safer and to offer more transit, bike and pedestrian options, the next five years could see several major projects with those goals actually come to fruition. Work on one such project has already started; Gay Street between Fourth […]