South Campus Gateway Fact Sheet


South Campus Gateway is a dynamic blend of entertainment, restaurants, retail, offices, apartments and parking within a series of buildings whose architectural quality exemplifies the best in “Main Street” urban design. Campus Partners developed Gateway to serve one of the nation’s largest collegiate markets and some of Columbus’s most diverse urban neighborhoods.

-- South Campus Gateway is a mixed-use development with about 225,000 square feet of entertainment, restaurant and retail space, 88,000 square feet of office space, 184 apartments and a 1,200-space parking garage. Anchoring up to 35 retail tenants are a flagship Barnes & Noble university bookstore, a seven-screen art cinema and an array of unique restaurants.

--The Gateway site is 7.5 acres located on High Street just south of the university campus. The site is on the edge of a distressed neighborhood with a high concentration of poverty and is in the federally designated Columbus Empowerment Zone.

-- The project is estimated to have brought 700 new jobs to an area with high unemployment and serves as a catalyst for further public and private investment on High Street and within the adjacent neighborhoods.

-- The total private and public investment in Gateway is more than $154 million.

-- As the developer of Gateway, Campus Partners has employed CB Richard Ellis as the property manager. During planning and construction, Jones Lang LaSalle was the development management advisor. Turner Construction Company was construction management advisor. Elkus/Manfredi Architects of Boston was the project architect.

-- Campus Partners was founded in 1995 by The Ohio State University and the City of Columbus to spearhead improvements to the quality of life in the University District.

-- Redevelopment of a blighted area on High Street adjacent to Ohio State’s Columbus campus was one of several key recommendations from the community-based planning process for the University District in 1995 and 1996. High Street is the “Main Street” of Columbus. The preparation of a High Street master plan in 1997 and 1998 identified the size and scope of the Gateway redevelopment project.

-- Following a design/development competition in 1999 and adoption by Columbus City Council in 2000 of an economic development agreement to help develop the Gateway project, Campus Partners assembled the redevelopment site. With site assemblage completed in mid-2002, the existing buildings were demolished. The first phase of public infrastructure improvements was finished in 2003. Construction of new buildings started in January 2004. Gateway began opening in autumn 2005.


Last updated April 2009