Columbus is seeing a lot of development that I think OKC Talk would be curious about. "Cbus" as locals universally call it, is growing at a similar rate as OKC, it's just a good bit bigger with a metro of 2 million (in 2014, Metro Cbus added 25,000 while OKC added 17,000). Cbus flies under the radar as an extremely busy city for urban development because it's overshadowed by being about two hours from Cincy, Cleve, Indy, and Pitt. It's also the largest city in the nation without rail. I'll just start with a few developments around the new Columbus Commons, and a few announced this last week.


Two25 is a 17-story mixed-use tower with 20,000 sf Commons-facing retail, 5 floors of office, and 12 stories of residential with a mix of rental and condo penthouses.


250 S. High, is a similar 12-story mixed-use development on the other side of the Columbus Commons, with 5 floors of office, 6 floors of residential, and street level retail. This is mostly complete right now.


Lifestyle Communities' Phase 2 of Riversouth has two buildings, a 10-story apartment tower with retail and 140 units, and an 8-story apartment tower with 100 units.


Across the street, LC's Phase 1 of Riversouth with two smaller apartment buildings


The complete LC Riversouth project, which has all broken ground at this point


Redevelopment of the Budd Dairy site in the Italian Village


Jeffrey Park is a huge project underway right now in the Italian Village, with a third complete, a third nearing completion, and a third about to break ground. 1300 residential units total, and lots of retail space.



The Joseph development which features a Le Meridien hotel, a gallery (a la 21C), and some office space



2nd phase of The Joseph across the street, which has an Anthropologie and apartments


South Campus Taco Bell to be redeveloped but retain Taco Bell location


Burwell Village development at 5th and Summit in the Italian Village


Food District project is searching for a new site after an economic development deal took the site it was to go on.


Small-scale infill between the Short North and Italian Village


This apartment building broke ground on a gas station site across from campus.


The View on High across from campus




Convention Center rehab underway.



Campus Partners, which is Ohio State's development arm that built the mixed-use Campus Gateway, is redeveloping several blocks centered at 15th and High, which is the university's "front door"


69 lofts in Franklinton


31 new apartments on Detroit Avenue in Italian Village


New hotel located on the Nationwide HQ side of the convention center


Phase 2 of Campus Gateway, which includes 4 blocks of retail, parking, high-end housing, and affordable housing.


Ibel Building with apartments in the Short North


The Hub is a large redevelopment in the Short North that includes this bldg and a huge public parking garage that is wrapped with skinny townhomes


The Fireproof is a combo historic rehab and infill project in the Short North that is nearly complete




Grandview Yard is the largest development underway in metro Columbus, which includes thousands of residential units, a Giant Eagle grocery store, 4,000 jobs that Nationwide is moving from a suburban campus back into the city, and a hotel/restaurant/retail core.



Columbus Museum of Art's new expansion, two blocks from my apartment. Notice the 8 lanes of traffic in front...grrr


The second largest development in metro Columbus is Bridge Street in Dublin, which is a suburban infill retrofit of an area like Memorial Road. Only problem is Dublin is 15 miles NW of downtown Columbus, just inside the NW bend in the Outerbelt.

For more developments, here's a very good rundown of 2014 development activity:
http://www.columbusunderground.com/2...evelopment-bw1

I will update this again a little later.. the Short North is the context for most of Columbus' urban development boom: