building a tactical revitalization plan for downtown albany

2012 DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS STRATEGIC PLAN
Columbus, Ohio
12 IDEAS
STRATEGIC PLAN
IMPLEMENTATION TO DATE
01 CREATE NEW
SOUTHEAST DOWNTOWN
GATEWAY
The South East Area of Downtown
Columbus will be transformed by the
!-70/71 Innerbelt project, creating
two new gateway opportunities into
downtown.
Master Plan being conducted now, led by
the Discovery District SID.
02 ENCOURAGE INFILL
HOUSING AROUND
TOPIARY PARK
Surrounded on two sides by surface
parking Topiary Park has the potential
to be a catalyst for residential
redevelopment of these underutilized
parcels.
Discovery District SID working with
property owners and area corporations on
a parking garage study to free up surface
parking lots for redevelopment around the
edges of the park.
03 ESTABLISH A
CREATIVE CAMPUS
Establish a Creative Campus to
connect business, institutional and
educational campuses to create a
cohesive neighborhood.
Streetscape improvements in design phase.
Involved working with Columbus College of
Art and Design and the Columbus Museum
of Art to integrate improvements into their
respective master plans that coincided with
the Downtown Plan of the park.
04 REDEFINE BROAD
STREET AS THE SPINE
OF THE CITY
Reinvent Broad Street as a grand
thoroughfare by activating the
streetscape, encouraging pedestrian
activity and including green space.
Capital Crossroads Special Improvement
District convened Broad Street property
owners to review concept plan and
complete more detail design documents
based on needs and desires of Broad
Street constituents. Finished plan in
2011, now being folded into the City’s
Downtown Action Plan that is making road
improvement funding recommendations
(Broad, High, Front are prioritized for
improvements based on Downtown Plan
recommendations). This is underway.
05 RESTORE
HIGH STREET AS
DOWNTOWN’S
COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR
Rejuvenate streetscape, reduce bus
traffic. Implement on-street parking to
stimulate ground floor retail.
On-street parking reinsertion to serve
storefronts being implemented by City,
championed by retailers, SIDs, Central Ohio
Transit Authority.
06 REPLACE HIGH
STREET TRANSIT MALL
WITH A DOWNTOWN
TRANSIT CENTER
A transit center downtown will allow
for centrally-located, convenient
transfers and serve as a boost to
economic development.
Studied in 2011 by COTA, decided to
take interim step of stop consolidation,
rerouting, to take pressure off High Street
corridor and add on-street parking.
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