Campus Partners Affiliate Awards Building Contracts
for South Campus Gateway; Construction on Schedule

April 22, 2004—As a result of a public bidding process, an affiliate of Campus Partners has announced a second round of construction services contracts awarded for the South Campus Gateway, a mixed-use development adjacent to The Ohio State University’s Columbus campus.

 

South Campus Gateway, LLC, has executed construction services contracts with the following companies after each submitted the lowest, qualified bid:

 

  • Hilliard Glass, on a bid of $331,600 for storefront, curtainwall and glazing work on building E of the development
  • Wanner Metal Worx, on a bid of $463,590 for miscellanous and ornamental metal work on building E
  • Kalkreuth Roofing/Sheet Metal, on a bid of $30,170 for roofing and construction of metal panels for building E
  • Bruner Corp., on a bid of $3,826,000 to provide plumbing services in buildings A and B and plumbing and HVAC services in building C
  • Kirk Williams Co., on a bid of $1,789,000 for HVAC services in buildings A and B
  • Accurate Electric., on a bid of $3,676,600 to provide electrical services in buildings A, B and C
  • Dalmatian Fire on a bid of $696,000 for fire protection in buildings A, B and C

 

Gateway buildings A, B and C will house a mix of entertainment, restaurants, retail, apartments and office space.  Building E is a 1,200-space parking garage.  Townhomes will flank the garage’s north and south walls.  The fifth building, building D, is nearing completion of its design and will be bid later this spring.  Building D will contain retail and entertainment tenants, including an eight-screen cinema to be operated by the Drexel Theatres Group.

 

Campus Partners established South Campus Gateway, LLC, an affiliate to serve as the development entity for the Gateway project.  Jones Lang LaSalle is the project’s development management advisor.  The Columbus office of Turner Construction Company is the construction management advisor.  The

 

 

architectural team includes Elkus/Manfredi Architects of Boston and Moody/Nolan, Ltd., of Columbus.

 

As of this announcement, contracts have been executed that total approximately 42 percent of the “hard costs” for construction of the buildings, which are estimated at about $65 million.  The construction work has been split into nearly 70 bid packages, of which 43 have been bid or are in the process of being bid.  Most of the remaining packages will be bid later this spring.

 

Additional construction investment will result from the “fit out” of numerous spaces leased by commercial tenants of South Campus Gateway.

 

South Campus Gateway, scheduled to open in the fall of 2005, will be a mixed-use development with about 250,000 square feet of retail space, 90,000 square feet of office space, and about 190 apartments, serving some of Columbus’ most diverse urban neighborhoods.  The retail space will include 35 to 40 entertainment, restaurant, shopping and service venues.  The total private and public investment in the Gateway project will be well in excess of $100 million.

 

In a mid-April progress report, Turner Construction, the construction management advisor for Gateway, notes that “the overall project is on schedule, the quality of work is very good, and the coordination and cooperation of the contractors is also very good.”

 

Turner Construction reports that construction on the overall project began Jan. 12, 2004, with the installation of the site fences and barriers and the start of work on the deep foundations of building E, the parking garage.  The first concrete slab on grade for building E was placed April 9 and the first elevated slab is scheduled to be placed on April 23.

 

On Jan. 27, grading commenced for the building pad of the five-story building B at the southeast corner of Chittenden Avenue and High Street.  The structural steel operation for building B began April 15.  Building B will contain retail on the first floor and apartments on the upper four floors.

 

Foundation work is progressing on the five-story building A on the west side of High Street between West 10th and West 11th avenues.  Building A will have retail on the first floor and apartments on the upper four floors.

 

Grading of the building pad began April 19 for the five-story building C on the southeast corner of East 11th Avenue and High Street.  Barnes & Noble College Booksellers will operate the combined Long’s and University bookstores as the project’s major retail anchor on the first two floors.  The upper three floors will be office space.

 

Campus Partners, a non-profit urban redevelopment corporation, was established in 1995 by The Ohio State University and the City of Columbus to spearhead improvements to the quality of life in the University District. While Campus Partners has initiated a number of projects in the University District, Gateway is the signature project to revitalize High Street and the neighborhoods around the university.

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