Construction Roundup: Downtown, Franklinton & Beyond

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Construction Roundup: Downtown, Franklinton & Beyond

June 17, 2021 - by Sergio Torian

June 16, 2021 9:56 pm

Walker Evans

Construction Roundup: Downtown, Franklinton & Beyond

Construction on the Scioto Peninsula — Photo by Walker Evans.

No matter what neighborhood or suburb you visit in Columbus, you’re likely to find plenty of construction right now. New apartment buildings, offices and always plenty of highway construction.

In this new installment of our Construction Roundup series we take a look at some of the major projects under construction throughout Downtown Columbus, The Arena District, the Discovery District, Franklinton, The Scioto Peninsula, Grandview Heights and Grandview Yard.

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New buildings rise at “The Peninsula” a 26-acre development on the Scioto Peninsula next to COSI.

Another view of construction at “The Peninsula”, which includes a hotel building, office building and apartment building in phase one.

A view of construction at “The Peninsula” from Broad Street.

Work continues at the CoverMyMeds campus in Franklinton.

Another view of the CoverMyMeds campus from the east side of the site.

Work has formally begun at the mixed-use Gravity 2.0 site in Franklinton.

The first couple of buildings are nearing completion at Grandview Crossing, a 55-acre mixed-use development near the intersection of Grandview Avenue and Route 33.

The nearly completed Lower.com Field will open to soccer fans in July.

Another view of Lower.com Field, the new home of the Columbus Crew SC, as seen from Nationwide Boulevard.

A new office building is nearly complete in the Arena District, which houses new corporate offices for Chipotle.

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Women Underneath Construction to Develop on 21 Times of Kindness

June 17, 2021 - by Sergio Torian

By Javacia Harris Bowser
For The Birmingham Periods

For years, Shellie Layne has been helping gals take care of their properties and their life by the Women of all ages Beneath Development Network (WUCN), a Birmingham-centered nonprofit that empowers ladies to just take on dwelling-improvement projects with assurance and acquire cost of their life.

Even all through the COVID-19 pandemic, Layne saved up the good work with digital seminars and conference calls. Yet, the gals she labored with and her group have been weighed down by the toll of the pandemic, racism and social unrest, and economical hardships.

Layne felt something much more necessary to be accomplished, so all over the month of June the WUCN is internet hosting Creating Hope: 21 Times of Kindness, a collection of 1,021 random and prepared functions of compassion carried out by 121 volunteers. The start celebration will be held on May 28 at the Oxmoor Valley Group Centre (1992 Wenonah Oxmoor Street, Birmingham AL 35211).

“Our motivation is that immediately after these 21 days people will be so stuffed with kindness and they’ll see so numerous form things getting finished about the town that they will have to fork out it forward,” Layne stated.

Some of the functions of kindness proposed involve supplying backpacks of cleanliness products and other requirements to ladies suffering from homelessness, as very well as exhibiting up at regional McDonald’s restaurants to give gift cards to women in the travel-via lines. Layne and her team are also partnering with

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Pennsylvania Conservation Heritage Museum now less than design at Center Creek Wildlife Management Area

June 17, 2021 - by Sergio Torian

The Pennsylvania Conservation Heritage Museum, a venture that has been in the operates for several years, is now below building at Center Creek Wildlife Management Region.

The museum, which is staying additional on to the aspect of the current readers center, is expected to be unveiled this slide. It will be no cost to readers and include reveals on the record of the Pennsylvania Recreation Commission (PGC) and wildlife administration in Pennsylvania.

The construction web-site for the Pennsylvania Conservation Heritage Museum. The museum is becoming added onto the side of the existing Middle Creek Visitors Heart.

The venture commenced around 5 or 6 many years in the past when Will Bauer, PGC retiree, sought to do one thing with his big selection of PGC artifacts. Inevitably the plan of creating a museum was formed.

When preparing the museum, a assortment of areas had been viewed as, including a Game Commission elk variety, Scotia Selection, and even the Sport Commission Harrisburg Workplace. However, Middle Creek Wildlife Administration Region was at some point picked partly because of to its existent facilities.

“Since Middle Creek was currently recognized, we now had restrooms, we experienced staff members, it just appeared to get the job done nicely to just place an addition on this making,” stated Cheryl Trewella, Conservation Officers of Pennsylvania (COPA) member and PGC retiree.

Component of the museum’s development web page together with the wall of the Readers Center. After concluded, the developing addition will have walls separating sections of the museum.

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RWE’s Onshore Blackjack Creek Wind Farm below design | Point out

June 17, 2021 - by Sergio Torian

AUSTIN, Texas, June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Silvia Ortin, COO Onshore Wind and Photo voltaic PV Americas, RWE Renewables: “Blackjack Creek Wind Farm drastically expands our portfolio of onshore jobs in the U.S., just one of our concentrate markets. We’re developing a stability of wind, solar and storage resources, aiding us produce on our web capability thoroughly clean strength targets.”

RWE continues to grow its renewables portfolio in the U.S. Blackjack Creek, a 240-megawatt (MW) onshore wind farm, located in Bee and Refugio counties, Texas, is below design. The undertaking is anticipated to be on line in late 2021.

“We appear forward to the profitable completion of the task and the final value it will provide to the local community and, in particular, to the regional school districts,” stated Silvia Ortin, Main Functioning Officer North The usa. “Our unmatched encounter with tasks on the Texas coastline makes sure Blackjack Creek will supply economical, clean, renewable vitality and even further grow renewable strength in the U.S.”

The venture, positioned in the Electrical Dependability Council of Texas (ERCOT) south market, will be powered by 50 4.8 MW Nordex turbines and will generate plenty of eco-friendly electric power to power additional than 72,000 houses.

Blackjack Creek is envisioned to create additional than $53 million in income domestically, such as an estimated $30 million for the area college districts. Throughout building, the challenge expects to use a lot more than 200 staff.

“We welcome RWE and the Blackjack Creek Wind Farm

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