the urban news for the week ending Sunday, July 20, 2008
 
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 In its landmark 30th season, BalletMet Columbus is proud to announce it ended its fiscal year on June 30, 2008 with a balanced budget, thanks to excellent artistic and educational programs, strong management and an outpouring of support from the Central Ohio community and the BalletMet Board of Trustees.
Columbus is ranked 25th in Forbes Magazine as a Best City for Young Professionals.
It was more or less a formality, but council tonight officially put a 1.6 billion dollar bond package on the November ballot.
Net Jet plans to add 415,000 square feet to the existing facility at Port Columbus. FlightSafety will add more than double the number of existing simulators, creating its largest concentration of simulators in the country and attracting large numbers of pilots on a daily basis from outside of Ohio for training.
Council members approved plans for a new city-owned parking garage at 4th and Elm streets Downtown.
Voter approval means "it will cost us far less than if we do not have their approval," particularly since many of the projects outlined in the package have been mandated by consent orders the city signed with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency "at any cost," Dorrian said.
When Columbus starts talking about a financial emergency, suburban officials cast nervous glances over their shoulders.
Investors took control of the downtown Columbus nightspot late last year and have spent the past six months repositioning the business from its original concept as a club that hosts events to an event space that happens to be a club.
 "New brokers taking bids for former Byers used-car lot on East Broad St." Business First of ColumbusThe owner of the former Byers Automotive Group used-car lot on East Broad Street has a new brokerage team marketing a sale of the downtown Columbus property.
At first, Columbus leaders simply wanted to make sure they had enough money to pay for some Downtown parking garages.
S. High Street will lose what some call an eyesore when the City Center sky bridge to the Lazarus building is removed this fall.
After issuing tax incentives to grow the commercial and residential populations of downtown, the city of Columbus is turning its attention to retail with redevelopment plans for City Center and an incentive-driven face-lift to High Street.
The new Main Street Bridge in Columbus has moved one step closer to completion. Tuesday marked the topping of the incline arch.
Columbus City Council approved another TIF district that's supposed to help with Downtown's revitalization. WOSU took a deeper look into the TIF structure and how one other state handles TIFs.
Worthington-based developer Riverwood Partners LLC has sold its first condominium at Broadview Mews as it begins to wrap up construction of the project near Grandview Heights.
At Grandview Heights City Council's July 7 meeting, Director of Administration Patrik Bowman informed council members that a planning consultant will be hired to look into the "blighted area" study that has caused business owners in the commercial district of the city so much grief.
Helicopter fuel has jumped from an average price of $2.36 a gallon in 2007 to $4.25 a gallon today. The helicopters burn 25 gallons each hour, so the fuel increase costs the city an extra $756 daily.
Foreclosure activity in June increased 11 percent in Ohio, giving the state the sixth-highest foreclosure rate in the nation, RealtyTrac reported Thursday.
Nine of the stores are in Ohio, including one in Columbus and one in suburban Westerville that were marked for closure in an announcement late last week.
...About 21/2 hours down I-71, the number is on the plus side, again: 4,779. Columbus had another year of steady growthââ¬Â¦
Faced with a City Council that's nervous about the cost, Mayor Michael B. Coleman's administration is retooling its plan for streetcars in Columbus.
COTA on July 4 put a trip-planning tool developed by Google Inc. on its Web site that allows users to punch in starting and ending addresses and - with clicks of a computer mouse - get step-by-step directions for taking the bus to their destination. The routes are displayed on the popular Google Maps platform.
WOSU spoke with the mayor's Urban Ventures Coordinator, Mike Brown, who said Coleman's streetcar dream has not been derailed.
The Motorized Two-Wheel Vehicle Parking plan will provide better parking options for motorcycles, mopeds and motor scooters in the Short North, Downtown and Brewery District. The first location opened today outside 61 E. Gay St.
Columbus Mayor Coleman's streetcar proposal was debated today at the Columbus Metropolitan Club. Coleman wants to build a 103-million-dollar line that would connect downtown with Ohio State University along North High Street.
Mayor Michael B. Coleman announced the creation of 17 corrals for motorcycles and scooters Wednesday. Each can fit seven to nine vehicles, which can park there if they have a motor and two wheels.
While city officials retool their proposal for a Downtown streetcar line, the debate over whether the city needs one continued yesterday.
As gas prices soar over $4 per gallon and commuters struggle with ever increasing traffic congestion, drivers are turning to public transit in record numbers.
...Now the iconic white picket fence comes with a hefty price tag in the form of the cost of the gasoline needed to drive to work and to the supermarket, and the suburban idyll is under reviewââ¬Â¦
Dioun's Stonehenge Co., which developed Gahanna's Creekside project, plans a 120,000-square-foot building fronting Park Street behind City Hall.
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