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JohnOSU99:
New hope for Weinland
OSU, Columbus collaborate on project for kids
By Jeff Bell, Business First

Ohio State University and Columbus Public Schools are nearing construction of a $15.8 million project to help the impoverished Weinland Park neighborhood near the university.  The goal of the venture, administrators from the two educational institutions said, is to integrate OSU's new early childhood development center with a rebuilt Weinland Park Elementary School in a town-gown collaboration.

"It will be a unique model to address the needs of Weinland Park families more holistically," said David Andrews, dean of Ohio State's College of Human Ecology.  About 70 percent of the children at the OSU center would come from Weinland Park, he said.  The mostly low-income area, where the average household income was $15,252 in 2002, is plagued by crime and high turnover rates in its housing and schools.  The project, which is also supported by the city of Columbus, is scheduled to be completed in fall 2006, Andrews said.

Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/06/09/story2.html

Summit Street:
well, good to hear it could get some help,
but
i am cautious as to the way osu would do it. will it be the 'clean up the neighborhood by getting rid of the peoplpe there thing? i'd rather have the city do this neighborhood without osu overstepping their grounds

buildingcincinnati:
Read the Weinland Park neighborhood plan here:
http://www.columbusinfobase.org/Weinland%20Park/Weinland%20Park%20Plan10605.pdf
From the 10/27/05 OSU Lantern:


Weinland Park plan sparks heated debate
By Stephanie Brum
Published: Thursday, October 27, 2005 

The University Area Commission met Oct. 19 in the Northwood High building to discuss whether to go forward with and recommend the Weinland Park Neighborhood Plan. The borders of the Weinland Park neighborhood span from Chittenden Avenue to the north, High Street to the west, Fifth Avenue to the south, and the Conrail railroad tracks to the east.

Read more at http://www.thelantern.com/media/paper333/news/2005/10/27/Campus/Weinland.Park.Plan.Sparks.Heated.Debate-1036185.shtml

buildingcincinnati:
From Business First of Columbus, 2/27/06:


2nd shot to aid Weinland
Campus Partners again dealing for Coated Fabrics
Brian R. Ball
Business First

Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment Corp. may get a second chance to prepare the former Columbus Coated Fabrics site on East Fifth Avenue for redevelopment.  The bankruptcy estate of Decorative Surfaces International Inc. has granted the affiliate of Ohio State University a six-month option to acquire the property for $385,000, according to a Feb. 17 order signed by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Peter J. Walsh in the state of Delaware.

City planners have identified the 17.6-acre industrial site as one of six "opportunity areas" for Weinland Park, a neighborhood that abuts the OSU campus. An early redevelopment plan for the area envisions mixed-income housing on the site, which stretches from Fifth Avenue along both sides of North Grant Street.

Read more at http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2006/02/27/story4.html?from_rss=1

Keith M.:
Any updates on what's going on there? What do you guys think should happen to turn the area around? I think a good number of people are going to have to be moved out. I think there needs to be housing spread out in other neighborhoods that these people could afford to live in. I just don't think having a neighborhood with such a high level of poor people will ever be able to change on its own.

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