The North Columbus Commercial District (N. High St., between Hudson and Dodridge) has been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. According to a Dispatch report, a final decision (following review by the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board) should be announced in about three months. The district is one of nine Ohio sites [...]
According to an article in Friday’s Dayton Business Journal, Ohio has $1.6 million in unused stimulus funds available for historic preservation. The funding had been allocated to support asbestos remediation in registered historic buildings. However, the Ohio Department of Development has yet to receive an application. State loans and sub-grants are also available for removing [...]
On Wednesday, a collaborative of Columbus arts and business leaders announced their plans to redevelop the former Wonder Bread factory in Italian Village “into a hub for the creative class in Columbus and beyond.” The project, called “Wonderland,” intends to revitalize the building as a site for artist studies, shared office space, band rehearsal and [...]
According to Mesothelioma Web, the City of Akron has been awarded $1.9 million from the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund to remove asbestos from the Landmark Building. Built in 1923, the Landmark Building is on the National Register of Historic Places. Following remediation, Main Street Partners will convert the upper floors to lofts, the ground level [...]
Yesterday, Lucy May of the Business Courier of Cincinnati described a new study highlighting opportunities to embrace two interconnected objectives in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine: preservation and sustainability. The “Over-the-Rhine Green-Historic Study” details the neighborhood’s potential for a number of LEED renovations, which would bolster energy-efficiency while maintaining existing assets such as historic character, walkability, and proximity [...]
Maria Matzer Rose reported in today’s Columbus Dispatch that the Columbus City Center demolition could begin as soon as next month. The move was approved yesterday by the city’s Downtown Commission. Razing City Center, expected to cost between $15 and $20 million, will make way for Columbus Commons, a new downtown park. The Commission considered [...]
On Thursday, Kate Galbraith of The New York Times reported on an emerging trend in alternative energy: retrofitting existing dams to produce hydropower. The article highlighted a 1999 retrofit at the Ohio River’s Belleville Dam, as well as plans for five additional retrofits on the river. One is currently underway. Initiated by American Municipal Power, [...]
By Mark Ferenchik, The Columbus Dispatch – July 25, 2009 The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority board has agreed to sell its Sawyer Towers and Lincoln Park apartment complexes to Vaios Theodorakos. Before the vote yesterday, the Massachusetts man spent about 20 minutes explaining to CMHA board members why he won’t fail to fix them up [...]
By Mary Beth Lane, The Columbus Dispatch – June 17, 2009 LANCASTER, Ohio — The weathered, white clapboard grandstand that has stood on the Fairfield County Fairgrounds for a century will be spared from demolition after a citizens group raised about $100,000 to save it. Its damaged roof will be repaired and aging boards will [...]
By Lucy May, Business Courier of Cincinnati – June 12, 2009 Over-the-Rhine is at a tipping point. If just four more buildings are demolished, the neighborhood will have lost more than 50 percent of the structures it had as recently as 1930, preservationists told a Cincinnati City Council committee. “That would put us past the [...]