Developing an Action Agenda
The process was initiated with an intensive charrette where representatives from all the organizations within the Creative Campus, along with representatives from the City of Columbus, the Columbus Downtown Development Commission, COTA, the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, and local developers, came together to discuss the area’s potential. The resulting action agenda centered on topics such as collaboration, infrastructure, safety, and community character/design with the core focus on finding ways for this area to better realize its potential.
Forging partnerships
Columbus State is one of the essential institutional anchors for Central Ohio. At the same time, the College has recognized that critical to its long-term success is working collaboratively with the City and other institutional partners. Planning NEXT has helped forge key strategic partnerships between the College and other entities.
Ongoing Implementation
There is considerable, tangible evidence of Planning NEXT’s involvement. Since the firm’s involvement, a signature street has been created. In addition, a new culinary school has been constructed, a health science center has been funded — with leadership of Ohio Health — and a technology center has been conceived, which received notice of a $20 million award in the State’s capital budget. The Creative Campus work is summarized below:
- Design and re-build a major street, now a “signature street”
- Market and physical analysis of residential, retail and office
- Land assessment focused on land use, utilization, and ownership
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Project Type: Campus Planning
Community Type: institutional campuses
Client: Columbus State Community College
Services: visioning, land use planning, area planning, capital planning
