FOR RELEASE:  
January 15, 2004

Campus Partners Affiliate Awards Construction Contracts for South Campus Gateway

COLUMBUS, OHIO – In the course of a public bidding process, an affiliate of Campus Partners has awarded the first in a series of construction services contracts for the South Campus Gateway, a mixed-use development adjacent to The Ohio State University’s Columbus campus.

The following companies have received construction services contracts after submitting the lowest qualified bid:

·               Danis Building Construction Co., on a bid of $2,593,000 for concrete work on buildings A, B and C of the development

·               Dugan & Meyers Construction Services, on a bid of $5,987,000 for concrete work on building E

·               McDaniel’s Construction Corporation, Inc., on a bid of $1,234,434 for general conditions services on the construction site for buildings A, B, C and E

·               Cinfab, Inc., on a bid of $246,500 to provide plumbing and HVAC services in building E

·               Converse Electric, Inc., on a bid of $765,800 for electrical services in building E

·               S.A. Comunale Company, Inc., on a bid of $26,700 to provide fire protection services in building E

·               Berkel & Company Contractors, Inc., on a bid of $528,400 for deep foundations for building E

·               Steel Services Corp., a $5,124,000 contract for structural steel for Buildings A, B and C.

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.  A fifth building, building D, is under design and will contain retail and entertainment tenants, including a seven-screen arts cinema.

Campus Partners established South Campus Gateway, LLC, as a non-profit 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 is the construction management advisor.  The architectural team includes Elkus/Manfredi Architects of Boston and Moody/Nolan, Ltd., of Columbus.

On behalf of South Campus Gateway, LLC, Turner Construction last November began the process of issuing nearly 60 bid packages over the next several months for construction work on the Gateway project.  Total “hard costs” for Campus Partners’ construction of the buildings are expected to be about $65 million.  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 entertainment, restaurant, and retail space, 90,000 square feet of office space, and about 190 apartments, serving some of Columbus’ most diverse urban neighborhoods.  The total private and public investment in the Gateway project will be well in excess of $100 million.

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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