the urban news for the week ending Monday, March 17, 2008
 
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 A state commission approved money yesterday for Franklin County's new minor-league baseball stadium, but the two sides in a running dispute over construction contracts differed on what that meant.
Franklin County will chip in $1.2 million to leading arts groups, including the Columbus Symphony, while a consortium works with business and community leaders to look for matching funds to stabilize the arts.
Last week's Columbus City Council Agenda
Mayor Michael B. Coleman is asking residents to step up and do their part by shoveling walks and to prevent flooding by moving melting snow and ice from catch basins on their street as temperatures rise again this week.
The City and its development partner Columbus Urban Growth Corporation are working together to redevelop the approximately 84-acre site, and Council is scheduled to vote [last night] on legislation to convey specified portions of the Northland Mall property to CUGC to facilitate the development of a Menardâââ‰â¢s, home improvement store.
Highlight's from this Monday's Columbus City Council meeting.
The first retail tenant at the former Northland Mall site is lined up to begin construction after Columbus City Council approved a land transfer at its Monday evening meeting.
No. 1: Columbus, Ohio. In 1997, the Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio's largest research center, based in Columbus, managed a single lab for the U.S. Department of Energy with an annual budget of $1 billion. A decade later, Battelle oversees seven major laboratories for different federal agencies; current budget: $4 billion.
Columbus is the No. 1 up-and-coming tech city in the United States, according to a new list by Forbes.com.
After considering at least three other cities for potential expansion, NetJets Aviation has decided to stay in Columbus and is expected to increase its work force by more than 800 people over the next several years.
Columbus has vanquished Raleigh, N.C., and other suitors to land a $200 million expansion by NetJets Inc.
We visit Columbus about 10 times a year to enjoy the more urban amenities not available where we liveââ¬Â¦
The full transcript from the March 13th, 2008 State of the City speech by Mayor Michael Coleman.
World-class campus to be built adjacent to Port Columbus as company seeks Ohio's best and brightest, partners with Ohio State and begins aviation cluster
The decision by NetJets Aviation to expand in Columbus could put Ohio at "the epicenter of an industry cluster" for aerospace and aviation, a top state official said yesterday.
Over the past month, the Clintonville area commissioners have conducted meetings within their districts to allow residents to address concerns directly related to their neighborhoods.
When it's to build a companion bridge between Town and Rich streets, city officials say they've found ways to do it for $9.5 million less.
CASTO, one of the country's leading real estate organizations, opens doors at Broad and High project to first retail tenant, Caf̮̩ Lola and office tenant, Paul Werth Associates.
...She pointed to the parking lot across S. 4th Street from the Queen Bee, a Downtown casual-dining institution since 1949 that Perry and her husband took over in January 2007. If that lot is full, I'm usually busy.""
Businesses account for 60 percent -- more than a half-million tons per year -- of the trash dumped locally.
Charity Martin-Via hopes her new coffee shop becomes not only a destination for a cup of joe, but also a shot for development along a stretch of Long Street on Columbus' Near East Side.
The thing about the new Urban-Spirit Coffee Shop, 893 E. Long St., is not that it's probably the only place in the area to get a high-quality cup of coffee, or a croissant or sandwich for lunch.
Of course I didn't waste any time in creating a new Urban Neighborhood section on RetroMetro for Columbus' newest official downtown district as announced in Mayor Coleman's 2008 State of the City Address: The Mile on High District
The city will spend $1.45 million to install cameras in neighborhoods that want them, Coleman said. Some of the money also will be used for mobile cameras that will be mounted on police vans and portable towers and will be turned on during festivals, football games and other events.
Home foreclosures soared to an all-time high in the final three months of 2007 and probably will keep rising, evidence of homeowners' suffering and the economic danger from the meltdown.
What is perhaps surprising is the 8 percent decline in the average sale price of those houses. They sold for $152,790, compared with a little more than $166,000 in January 2007ââ¬Â¦
Rising foreclosures threaten to worsen the problems in the housing market and for the national economy, which many fear is on the verge of a recession or in one already.
The association recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and unveiled a long list of plans to ensure that the next 25 years see continued growth and even more foot traffic along High Street from the Greater Columbus Convention Center to 5th Avenue.
Ohioanna All-Star Market will be a small New York City "bodega style" urban market catering to our currently underserved downtown-dwelling demographic.
he Grading the States 2008 report unveiled this week is the "only 50-state assessment of its kind that evaluates and grades each state based on a range of areas, from budget and finance to roads and bridges," says a news release by Pew.
Ikea, the Swedish furniture chain made famous by its low-priced but modern home furnishings, offered a sneak peak of its sprawling, 344,000-square-foot store less than a week ahead of its March 12 grand opening at 9 a.m.
Now might be the time to shake the cobwebs off plans for a passenger-train line linking Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Dayton just might be now.
Leaders of several neighborhood groups aren't quite on board with a multi-million dollar streetcar system proposed by the city of Columbus.
On March 27, I invite you to join me at City Hall, to hear from the financial experts and planners on how we can build and operate the first rail transit system in our city in generationsââ¬Â¦
The nearly $1 million project upgraded street lights installed in the 1970s to improve safety in the neighborhood.
Columbus has turned on the last of 150 new streetlights east of the Ohio State University campus, four months ahead of schedule, to give students more of a sense of security in an area plagued by break-ins and other crimes.
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