Topic: Columbus: OSU/University Area Projects

[CleveChiNola]

Dude, it overlooked Tuttle Park, had a really nice, lush yard of its own, and provided a nearby bathroom for my friends and I football Saturdays.

[ColDayMan]

LOL!  So basically, it was a nice outhouse for the soccer fields.

[CincyMan]

Dude, it overlooked Tuttle Park, had a really nice, lush yard of its own, and provided a nearby bathroom for my friends and I football Saturdays.

Yep. I'm going to miss it...

[MissinOhio]

Wonder when this will start construction?  It says possible completion is expected in 2014.


http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/02/18/new-osu-building-tops-colleges-collective-budget.html

[Columbo]

^ According to the article, the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry Building will begin construction in June.  Below is a rendering of it.

[Columbo]

Posted by futureman at Columbus Underground: (good catch)

Proposed 40 Unit Apartment Building @ 150 W Lane Ave by Edwards Company (CAMPUS)

Ran across a proposed apartment building on lane ave here -

CITY ZONING APPLICATION LINK (PDF at link): http://bzs.columbus.gov/itemdetail.aspx?id=50219&pid=16938

Google Map: http://g.co/maps/xengw

The proposed building will be located just east of Tommy's Pizza at Lane and Neil, replacing both of the 70's era existing apartment buildings.  Here are couple of details from the PDF:
- 5 Story Structure (first floor parking, 4 floors above), average height of 60'
- Will have 40 units (112 beds)
- Will be urban in design, zero setback from Lane Ave

Also as noted by futureman - page 12 of the above PDF has a site map for the 150 W. Lane Avenue project which also shows a second building at Norwich Avenue and Tuttle Park Place.  There is no other mention of this building in the application.  However, the Norwich and Tuttle Park location is at the same addresses as the below addresses previously posted in this thread:

Received information today that 236, 242-248, 250 & 262 W. Norwich Ave will be redeveloped this year or next.
 
"Today we were informed by the owners of these properties that it appears at this time that we WILL NOT BE LEASING these properties for Fall of 2012 due to redevelopment of the area."

Anyone know what they are planning for the area?

The County Auditor's website lists the same ownership for the Norwich Avenue property and the 150 W. Lane Avenue property.  Although there is no information in the zoning application for the Norwich Avenue property, the page 12 site plan does show a "U" shaped building very similar to the "U" shaped apartment building proposed for 150 W. Lane Avenue.  It makes one wonder if a similar apartment building is being proposed for the 236-262 W. Norwich Avenue location as well.

[Columbo]

Ohio State basketball team’s new practice facility moving forward
Business First by Jeff Bell, Staff reporter
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012, 11:33am EDT

Win or lose as the final two weekends of March Madness begin, Ohio State University’s men’s basketball team will have swankier digs at the Jerome Schottenstein Center next season.
 
The university is reviewing proposals from construction management companies for a project to spruce up the men and women’s locker rooms at the Schott and construct a second basketball practice gym and strength and conditioning area on the west side of the building.
 
OSU hopes to select the construction manager by April 17 and begin construction later that month.  A timeline for the $13.7 million project calls for the locker-room overhauls to be completed in August and the rest of the work to be done by August 2013.

MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/blog/2012/03/ohio-state-basketball-teams-new.html

[Columbo]

More about the proposed 40 Unit Apartment Building at 150 W Lane Ave by Edwards Company (aka Lane Avenue Apartments) mentioned above from Columbus Underground:

The List: 11 More New Apartment Developments Around Columbus

[Columbo]

The City of Columbus publicized their plans last week to go ahead with removal of the Main Street lowhead dam in the Scioto River.  Removal of that dam would lower and narrow the existing river and create new green space along its banks, which would then be reworked and replanted by the city.  A similar lowhead dam at Fifth Avenue near the Ohio State University will also be removed this summer in the Olentangy River.  The City and Ohio State are partnering on this project.  Below is an article about this - with a site map, before photos and after renderings at the link:

City plans to demolish 5th Avenue dam
Removal this summer to open green space at OSU
By Mark Ferenchik, The Columbus Dispatch
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 5:06 AM

Columbus plans to demolish the 5th Avenue dam along the Olentangy River this summer, a project that will significantly narrow the river near Ohio Stadium and remove a hazard where a man drowned almost four years ago.
 
Ohio State University officials say they plan to create a riverfront park and use the Olentangy to attract people to the water’s edge.  Trees, shrubs and other plants will be placed in the vacated river channel, and crews will create wetlands.

MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/04/04/city-plans-to-take-the-5th.html

[Columbo]

Columbus Underground produced an excellent compendium of proposed and under construction apartment projects by the Edwards Companies.  Two previously posted projects in the University area were mentioned. 

From "Edwards Pushes for Urban Density with New Apartment Developments" at Columbus Underground:

150 W. Lane Avenue:  Just north of the Ohio State University campus, Edwards is planning a five-story development that would be home to 40 apartments containing 112 beds and parking below the units.



236-262 W. Norwich Avenue:  Nearby, Edwards has proposed a similar student-oriented development at 236-262 West Norwich Avenue, which is west of the Lane Avenue site.  This collection of three-story buildings would provide housing for 156 residents.


MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/edwards-pushes-for-urban-density-with-new-apartment-developments

[ink]

^I wish the Norwich complex were also on Lane, but good to see regardless. Hopefully this investment will drive competition for the other building owners in the north campus area to invest in their properties.

[CincyMan]

Just got an email today that the current apartments on Norwich will be re-leased for next year, so the Norwich building is at least a year from construction.

[Columbo]

Unveiled: OSU Chiller Plant
Ross Barney Architects wrap Ohio State University's ten-story plant with a high-polish finish

Architect: Ross Barney Architects
Client: Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Completion: 2012

In recent years, some architects have been wrapping new chiller plants in eye-catching skins.  Often these structures are glass boxes within metal scrims, which allow the mechanicals to be visible on the exterior.  “Putting a chiller in a glass box means you have to chill the chiller plant,” said Carol Ross Barney, principal of Ross Barney Architects in Chicago.

For Ohio State University’s new ten-story plant, Ross Barney instead designed a precast concrete box, which will be given a high-polish finish.  Fins of diachronic glass will cast colored rays across the reflective surface of the concrete, and a series of openings will offer glimpses into the mechanicals inside.



MORE: http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4822

A construction update on this chiller plant at the OSU Medical Center campus from Columbus Underground's Construction Roundup — July 2012:

[Columbo]

A photo of Sullivant Hall along High Street being renovated from Columbus Underground's Construction Roundup — July 2012:



Sullivant Hall is being renovated as the new home for Ohio State's Cartoon Research Library.  The renovated Sullivant Hall will also house OSU's Department of Dance and a Music & Dance Library.  Below is a pdf file of the study OSU did for the Sullivant Hall renovation project.  Plans and elevations for this project are on pages 17 thru 23 of the study.

PDF FILE - OHIO STATE CARTOON RESEARCH LIBRARY STUDY FOR SULLIVANT HALL

[ColDayMan]

Well THIS is big news:

Ohio State finalizing plan for $400M dorm complex at Lane & High



Ohio State University is moving ahead on a project that will dramatically change the look and use of what it sees as an “iconic campus corner” at Lane Avenue and High Street in Columbus.

Trustees on Aug. 31 were to approve the $396 million project, whose centerpiece is a 13-building student housing complex that will help achieve university President Gordon Gee’s goal of having all sophomores live on campus. The project will involve new dorms, dining halls and a recreation center on 27 acres stretching from Neil Avenue to High Street and from Lane south to Woodruff Avenue.

Full article below:
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/print-edition/2012/08/31/ohio-state-finalizing-plan-for-400m.html

[CleveChiNola]

Aren't there a bunch of dorms there now?

[Columbo]

^ Yup. Here's the original story about the north dorm reconstruction plan from September 2011, which includes the concept plan at that time.

And speaking of new on-campus residential construction, here is a proposal from OSU to revamp their North Campus Residential Campus.

OSU plan would expand dorms
All sophomores would have to live on campus
By Bill Bush and Encarnacion Pyle
Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 9:03 AM

Ohio State University is planning a $317.5 million construction boom that would line north campus along Lane Avenue and N. High Street with low-rise dorms totaling more than a million square feet.
 
The project would allow the university to require all sophomores to live on campus, and the OSU Board of Trustees could be asked to approve a preliminary design contract in as soon as two weeks.  The buildings would add 3,200 beds to accommodate an estimated 6,000 sophomores at Ohio State, increasing the university’s housing stock by 31 percent.
 
The proposal includes two new dining halls, a 68,700-square-foot recreation center and three green-space commons.

READ MORE: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/08/28/osuplan-would-expand-dorms.html

[Columbo]

Above is OSU's North Dorm Reconstruction Plan from September 2011.  It looks like the plan have evolved somewhat since then.  It also looks like the plan may still be evolving still. 

According to Friday's Business First article: "The project will involve new dorms, dining halls and a recreation center on 27 acres stretching from Neil Avenue to High Street and from Lane south to Woodruff Avenue.  The buildings will range from two to 12 stories high and will be wedged among existing housing, although some structures with 675 beds will be demolished."

But according to the Friday Columbus Dispatch article - OSU plans dorms to bring sophomores on campus: "The plan calls for buildings as tall as seven stories that would be interspersed among three existing 12-story dorms — Drackett, Jones and Taylor towers.  OSU officials are looking at adding 2,275 beds by fall 2015, followed by an additional 1,600 beds by fall 2016.  Buildings that now provide 675 student beds would be demolished."

Also according to Friday's Business First article - at least two architecture firms would be involved the final designs of these new dorm buildings on the north dorm site.  Because the entire site is 27 acres and would include multiple new buildings, different designers for different buildings would help visually break up the site.  Business First also hinted at a third design firm for buildings at the corner of Land and High, as follows: "The qualification process for a third firm to design the three buildings that will sit right at the “iconic” Lane and High corner is to begin in the coming weeks."  So it looks like OSU might be planning something special at that corner.

Here is a location map for the North Dorm Reconstruction Plan
provided in the above linked Dispatch article:

One part of the Neil to High and Lane to Woodruff block that is not highlighted is the corner of Woodruff & High.  This corner is owned and occupied by St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. (That's the classic modernist church with the cross made of two steel I-Beams.)  And according to this February 2012 Business First article - St. Stephen’s to enhance mission at OSU through housing deal - the church entered into an agreement with a Columbus developer to build apartments housing 175 to 325 students on the site of its community center on their property.  Part of that student housing development would rebuild the community center but would not disturb the classic modernist church at the corner of Woodruff & High.

[Columbo]

And one more update on the North Dorm Plan from today's Dispatch article: OSU trustees OK hiring for $396 million plan - Project would double beds on north campus.

A different rendering from the previous master planning effort for the north dorm area:

[vidgms]

I'm seeing a crane, a big crane in the Lane and High area.  They haven't already started on these projects, have they?  They only just announced them.  Anyone know? Or something I missed?

[CincyMan]

^No. The crane is on Woodruff Ave. where Boyd Lab used to be. They are building a new chemical engineering building there.

[jaymillah]

Construction has started on the East chiller plant at High & 14th... wasn't aware that this was on the books so I did a quick google, pretty cool, good compliment to the West version.

Here's a link to more pics and a good description
http://www.architectmagazine.com/education-projects/ohio-state-university-east-regional-chiller-plant.aspx

[Columbo]

OSU's Student Academic Services Building and Lane Avenue Parking Garage received an Honor Award at the 2012 American Institute of Architects Columbus Design Awards.  Below is a photo and project information from Business First and Columbus Underground:



Student Academic Services Building and Lane Avenue Parking Garage

Where: 281 W. Lane Ave., Columbus
Owner: Ohio State University
Architect of record: Acock Associates Architects
Landscape architect: MSI
Cost: $44 million
Contractor: Ruscilli/Miles-McClellan

Project Description: “The student academic services building is the primary north gateway to The University.  Formerly a surface parking lot, the building organization and site at the corner of Lane Avenue and Tuttle Park Place posed numerous design challenges.  To maximize the functionality of the site, the design solution was a six-story student services building with a connected nine deck Parking Garage utilizing a shared 230 ft. common wall.  This shared common wall eliminates significant solar heat gain at the south wall of the occupied building; the garage decks shading the entire wall surface.  Energy use modeling illustrated significant percentage savings in energy consumption with this design.”

Juror comments: "Rarely do we see the skin of a building and adjacent parking garage handled with this level of care and inventiveness.  The building's brick patterns, echoed in the garage's screen patterns, have a dynamic quality that makes this structure noteworthy,"wrote Thomas Fisher, dean of the University of Minnesota's College of Design.

MORE: http://www.aiacolumbus.org/categoryblog/256-2012-aia-columbus-design-awards

[CleveChiNola]

^If I remember correctly, student loan services were going to go into this buildingn and out of Lincoln Tower.
For that alone, it is a huge accomplishment.

[ColDayMan]

What in God's Hell...

The old St. John Arena is gone for...

Ohio State to build 4,000-seat ‘Covelli Arena’ thanks to $10M gift



A $10 million gift from Warren-based Covelli Enterprises Inc. will help pay for a 4,000-seat arena to be built at Ohio State University, the university said Wednesday.

The gift from the company headed by Sam Covelli and his wife, Caryn, is the largest in the history of the athletics department, OSU said.

Full article below:
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/11/21/ohio-state-to-build-4000-seat.html

[Htsguy]

^boo

[BUCKEYE54]

yeah it really is  horrible. I hope either the rendering is way off or there's still plenty of room for discussion. I mean for 30 million dollars the stroh center in BG seems much more appealing.

[jbcmh81]

What in God's Hell...

The old St. John Arena is gone for...

Ohio State to build 4,000-seat ‘Covelli Arena’ thanks to $10M gift



A $10 million gift from Warren-based Covelli Enterprises Inc. will help pay for a 4,000-seat arena to be built at Ohio State University, the university said Wednesday.

The gift from the company headed by Sam Covelli and his wife, Caryn, is the largest in the history of the athletics department, OSU said.

Full article below:
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/11/21/ohio-state-to-build-4000-seat.html

1971 called, OSU...

[Columbo]

The only good thing about this new arena design is that it won't be going at the St. John location.  This has been in the works since the new OSU Master Plan came out a few years back, but it's still gonna be painful to lose St. John Arena.  It wasn't much to look at on the outside, but it was spectacular on the inside.

More about this from the Dispatch (link below) - plus a location map showing where the new arena would be located:

Donation will go toward building arena to replace St. John: Donation from Panera franchisee — the single-largest cash gift to the athletic department — will go toward building a 4,000-seat arena that eventually will be home to seven varsity sports

[GCrites80s]

What in God's Hell...

The old St. John Arena is gone for...

Ohio State to build 4,000-seat ‘Covelli Arena’ thanks to $10M gift



A $10 million gift from Warren-based Covelli Enterprises Inc. will help pay for a 4,000-seat arena to be built at Ohio State University, the university said Wednesday.

The gift from the company headed by Sam Covelli and his wife, Caryn, is the largest in the history of the athletics department, OSU said.

Full article below:
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/11/21/ohio-state-to-build-4000-seat.html

1971 called, OSU...

Looks like a good place to sell Oldsmobiles.

[jbcmh81]

What in God's Hell...

The old St. John Arena is gone for...

Ohio State to build 4,000-seat ‘Covelli Arena’ thanks to $10M gift



A $10 million gift from Warren-based Covelli Enterprises Inc. will help pay for a 4,000-seat arena to be built at Ohio State University, the university said Wednesday.

The gift from the company headed by Sam Covelli and his wife, Caryn, is the largest in the history of the athletics department, OSU said.

Full article below:
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/11/21/ohio-state-to-build-4000-seat.html

1971 called, OSU...

Looks like a good place to sell Oldsmobiles.

You know, I know a lot of people complain about Columbus art and architecture projects being outsourced to other cities/states, and I am usually in agreement about keeping it local.  And then projects like this and the new Columbus Commons Apartments renderings come out and then I start rooting for the outsourcing.  I just don't get it. 

[Columbo]

Below is a link to an August article from OSU's 'The Lantern' about the completion of two big South Campus Residential Dorm projects for the 2012 academic year:

The Lantern: Revamped residence halls ‘very appealing’ for campus dwellers

The two completed dorm projects for 2012:

1) Park-Stradley Hall: The renovation of two 11-story dorms built in the 1950's - Park Hall and Stradley Hall.  The two 11-story buildings became one building with an 11-story addition that links the two original dorm buildings.  The new addition increases Park-Stradley from 932 beds to 1292 beds.  This is part of a $172 million renovation of the South Campus Residential Dorms located between 11th & 12th Avenues.  The neighboring 11-story Smith Hall and Steeb Hall are now undergoing a renovation and connecting addition similar to Park-Stradley.

2) The Residences on Tenth: Construction of a new six-story, 510-bed residence hall at the northwest corner of Tenth Avenue and Worthington Street.  This new construction is located on a former parking lot immediately south of the 11th Avenue Parking Garage.  During its construction it was also known as the William Hall Residential Complex Phase Two.

[Columbo]

Some photos of the Park-Stradley project

Park-Stradley Hall: The renovation of two 11-story dorms built in the 1950's - Park Hall and Stradley Hall.  The two 11-story buildings became one building with an 11-story addition that links the two original dorm buildings.  The new addition increases Park-Stradley from 932 beds to 1292 beds.  This is part of a $172 million renovation of the South Campus Residential Dorms located between 11th & 12th Avenues.  The neighboring 11-story Smith Hall and Steeb Hall are now undergoing a renovation and connecting addition similar to Park-Stradley.




Park-Stradley under construction in 2011



Park-Stradley - 2012 finished view from the southern 11th Avenue side



Drop-off courtyard during 2012 move-in day  - - -  Close-up of new building entry



View of the finished building from the northern courtyard side


ADDITIONAL PHOTOS LINK: MORE FINISHED EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR PHOTOS AT PEASE PHOTOGRAPHY

[Columbo]

Some photos of the Residences on Tenth project

The Residences on Tenth: Construction of a new six-story, 510-bed residence hall at the northwest corner of Tenth Avenue and Worthington Street.  This new construction is located on a former parking lot immediately south of the 11th Avenue Parking Garage.  During its construction it was also known as the William Hall Residential Complex Phase Two.




Two views of the project under construction in 2011.  Left view is from 10th & Neil -- Right view is from 10th & Worthington



Aerial view of the new Residences on Tenth Building nearly completed except for landscaping in 2012.



View of finished building from 10th & Neil



View of finished building further east on 10th Avenue



View of 10th Avenue entry courtyard


ADDITIONAL PHOTOS LINK: MORE FINISHED EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR PHOTOS AT FEINKNOPF PHOTOGRAPHY

[subocincy]

Thanks, Columbo, for the #417-418 updates on these OSU resident-halls.  No big deal, but I just wanted to mention that I began my own freshman school-year in 1963-64 living on Stradley's 7th floor.  A wild place, a fun place, and a residence hall that housed a  number of football players.  (Stradley was also the first place I learned what happened to our president, as I strode back from class on that fateful and awful afternoon of November 22, 1963.  Need I say more?)