Conte and other Downtown boosters hope that figure jumps up when schools resume in the fall, freeing many at-home workers from child care, but the survey found that only 68% of Downtown s workers are expected to be back by the end of the year. I thought the numbers for both the summer and fall would be higher, Conte said. I think after Labor Day, that’s when we’ll really see what happens.
Conte cautioned that the survey results are based on responses from 77 out of 415 employers, or less than 20%. He also noted many of the surveys were completed before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state relaxed COVID restrictions.
Columbus Partnership assumes active role in Downtown development
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Among all of central Ohio s commercial real estate transactions in March, the one for 145 S. Front St. might have raised the most eyebrows.
The 200,000-square-foot state office building, empty since 2007, was sold for $3 million.
Instead of a developer, the buyer was the Columbus Partnership, the private, nonprofit collection of the area s most powerful corporations, which announced plans to turn the seven-story building into a mix of offices, retail space and residences.
The Partnership has been active in economic development since its founding in 2002, but until now, has stayed away from bricks-and-mortar.
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Greg Davies, former chief of staff for Mayor Andrew J. Ginther, has been named CEO of the Columbus Downtown Development Corp. and Capitol South.
Amy Taylor, who had been CDDC s and Capitol South s COO, has been named president. Taylor has been with the organizations for 14 years.
Davies and Taylor were appointed by the CDDC and Capitol South board to replace former President and CEO Guy Worley, whose last day was Monday. Davies and Taylor begin their new roles June 14.
Davies was Ginther s first chief of staff in 2015, helping him put together his cabinet. More recently, he has been vice president of planning and development for the Columbus Partnership, which has recently taken a more-active role in Downtown development.
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Recently, I asked a colleague what Downtown is like these days, how it’s doing. While our Capitol Square offices remain officially closed, he’s been working from there frequently the past few months as the company works out the details of our return-to-work plans.
He says Downtown remains quiet. I’ve got to wonder with a bit of unease how long will it stay that way?
“Quiet” was actually the same way someone else described Downtown to me during a recent conversation, but she was referring to the Downtown Columbus of 30 years ago.
When Sandy Doyle-Ahern moved to Columbus from outside Philadelphia for a job, “I remember being just so surprised at how quiet Downtown was. That it really wasn’t a downtown, it was kind of a conglomerate of buildings. But there wasn’t a lot of activity occurring,” she says.