Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Weinland Park (north of the Short North) To Get New Homes


Apartments will give way to houses

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 02:53 AM

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Two blighted, vacant apartment buildings will be torn down to make way for new homes as part of a project to rejuvenate Weinland Park.

"These buildings have been a source of criminal activity in the neighborhood," Franklin County Treasurer Ed Leonard told county commissioners.

The commissioners yesterday voted unanimously to accept Leonard's recommendation to erase $156,097 in unpaid property taxes by placing the properties, for a few seconds at least, into the county's land bank.

Commissioners immediately then gave the buildings, at 1407 and 1415 N. 4th St., to Campus Partners, a nonprofit group that works to redevelop the area near Ohio State University. It will spend $409,000 to strip away asbestos and raze the 26 units.

The group is to build at least three $120,000 homes on the site, said Leonard, who helped put together the deal with the Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County.

The new homes will "be a cornerstone" of the neighborhood's redevelopment, said Steven D. Gladman, housing trust president.

bcarmen@dispatch.com


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