December 13, 2024 • 8 mins
Mark Somerson of Columbus Business First has a look at local business news around Central Ohio
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's switch over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone line and check in with our good buddy from
Columbus Business First dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Mark Summerson. Mark, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good morning? How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm doing just fine on a Friday the thirteenth, little snowy,
little chilly out there.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But I hope you're ready for I hope you're ready
for the weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
I am so, you say, six tenths breathing? Why do
I have to pay to get on to talk to you?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's something we's to talk about off the air act.
Why did you pull the curtain back on that? Let's
get to it, Mark, I see, and you do have
a couple of restaurant news pieces in here, which I'm
always excited about. And I unfortunately had never been to
Milestone two twenty nine to buy Centennial Park restaurant's been
around for what fourteen or fifteen years?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
They are closing.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, it's bad news.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
If you ever go to the arts festival or just
walking around by Centennial Park, you'll see those restaurants right
next to those fountains that work and sometimes don't work.
But yeah, it's had a rich history. But They just
announced they're closing on December thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
First. They said that they've enjoyed.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
All their time here, but they can't come to reach
the new lease terms with the City of Columbus, which owns.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The property, and they said it's just not going to
work for us.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I don't think you're going to see it stay shuttered
for too long. I believe you're going to within the
next month or two months, you're going to hear about
a new restaurant.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
With plans to move in there.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
The location is really good, right in the middle of downtown,
and as downtown is growing, the city.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Wants to get that space filled again.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So I think you're going to see some new restaurant
open up in there. And the bad news it's the
fourth downtown restaurant to close or announced plans to close
in last month. Of course, there are openings too. There
are new restaurants that are opening all the time downtown,
but for everyone that opens, there seems to be another
one that closes. So there's an Esco restaurant in Tapas
that has closed. El Camino Little Palace Bar on South
(01:57):
fourth Street. They closed at the end of November. Had
least bar closed this summer there. Unfortunately, restaurants, it's a
tough business and a lot of them close, a lot
of them open. So it's one of those that you
just kind of have to watch and see what's going
to fill in that spot. But I have a feeling
you're going to see or hear not too long from now.
Stay tuned for us because we'll be covering at once
(02:18):
a new name is announced for that space.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And you're right, that is a fantastic location for a restaurant.
I mean, it's shocking to me that somebody would struggle there,
but I vote for a new steakhouse. We have a
influx of steakhouses coming downtown, so I'm all about a
good steakhouse. Mark, I think we should bring a steakhouse
into that location.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I think you and I should run it, except I
have no experience, but I do like steak.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I have a little restaurant experience, but I don't have
any money.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So if you got the cash, I think I got
the experience, we'll figure.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It out together.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, I don't have either.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I just wanted to clarify that speaking with Mark perfect
It's Mark Summerson from Columbus Business. First Boy, I got
to tell you this, Ohio Health. This is just a
mega campus now and it's getting bigger. This is the
one right by Riverside Hospital, North Broadway, all on Tangy
and Clintonville.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
There.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
They're going to spend what two hundred and twenty six
million dollars on an outpatient cancer center there.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, this is a big deal of Ohio Health. If
you drive by Riverside Methodists Hospital, you'll see a giant
tower going up and that's going to be their Women's
health tower. They are in the midst of building that.
There's two huge cranes there every day, a lot of
workers there. And then this week they announced that they're
going to build this humongous outpatient or cancer center next
(03:34):
to its Columbus headquarters. Right across the river and across
North Broadway is the their headquarters and they are going
to build this behind it on what is now a
parking lot. It's going to be fairly large, and it's gonna.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Cost a lot of money, but they're gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You know, they have a lot of money. This is
one of those hospitals whose surplus seems to grow every year,
and they know that central Ohio's growing. They know that
there are patients out there that need this kind of help,
and they're going to build this on their campus because
they have the property. So, yeah, the Bloom Administration Administrative
Campus open in twenty nineteen, and this is going to
(04:13):
go right behind it. It's if you're familiar with that area,
there's a Coals which is really close to it, and
that area is supposed to be redeveloped down the road
by Croppert hoy Us plans for mixed use space, including
new apartments or condos there. So you're going to see
a lot of construction in and around that area. It's
near Clintonville and right off of Alan Tangi, and it's
(04:36):
going to be busy there in the next few months
and years.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I drive by it every day, Mark and it's I
feel like it's been busy for the last ten years
with construction in that area.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Oh, it really is. And now they're putting the new
bike and walking path right next to the headquarters and
so there's more construction going on.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So if you live in that area.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I live in Clintonville and use North Broadway a lot.
You're getting used to seeing cra You're used to seeing
a lot of construction equipment and a lot of people
going through there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Do you know anything about that bike path? Is that
just a it goes along the river there? Is that
just taken? Is that connecting the existing bike path down
to into downtown.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
This has been a long time coming because a lot
of people who go through Clintonville on that bike path
have to get on roads and all this other stuff.
This is going to be a clear connector to it
and make it a lot more accessible. And the city's
got a timeline on that. They're putting a lot of
money into it, and for folks like me and Clintonville,
we just have to put up with the construction for
(05:34):
I don't know how long, but yeah, it's going to
be there.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Speaking of with the Mark Sommerson Columbus Business First, you
if you listen to these segments and enjoy them, go
check out maybe you get a subscription for yourself Columbus
Business First dot com. I see a black Kahawa coffee shop.
Is it was a just a kind of a little
coffee truck right now they've got a brick and mortar.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yes, as they've been working on the inside of this
coffee shop. They've been serving outdoors. Like you said, a
little trailer and a portable coffee basically a coffee company
there and it's trailer while the cafe space is being renovated.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's now open.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
The full cafe used to be a Tim Horton's and
now it's Lakahawa. And this is somebody that we've talked
to a few times. The guy who has started this
started in twenty nineteen. The idea had been going through
his mind for a while. He had lived in East
Africa for more than a decade, learned how to create
everything from cultivation to roasting, and this has been a
(06:34):
dream of his to open a space. And now it's there,
and it's in prime location downtown. He thinks the business
will do extremely well. And as more people are either
moving downtown or returning to work downtown, there's more visitors.
He thinks the business will do well. And there's a
lot of little businesses.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Now opening up in there.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
And this is just one of those great ideas and
we wish him all the luck. And yeah, it's cool
to see these businesses go from an idea in somebody's
head to a coffee trailer and now a full brick
and mortar spot.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I've not had black Ahawa coffee.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But just based on the name alone, that sounds like
that sounds like it'll wake you up right now. I
don't think you're not going there to get a decaf.
I don't believe.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I've never had a decaf.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I don't understand this. It doesn't make any sense to me.
I mean, it's like eating a turkey bacon.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I can't. We've got a time for one more quick one.
I see.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
There's the city council is they're kind of looking at
a different housing strategy.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
What's the story.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh, I love this idea.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
This is a pilot program the city's starting and they're
going to have some forums to talk about it with residents.
These are called accessory dwelling units. These are secondary dwelling
units that you build on your property. Let's say it's
over your garage, to be in your backyard. You can
have one of these things, and they're going to show
you how to do it. They want to do this
(07:59):
to make sure that there is enough housing and affordable
housing in central Ohio. And so this this pilot program
is still we haven't got a date for when it's
going to start, but they really want to start working
with this you've seen tiny houses opening up.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
All over the place. This is basically that same idea.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's like you building like a mother in law suite
over your garage type of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean you still have to deal with your mother
in law, but that's still a pretty cool idea.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Or you could charge your mother in law rent and
everybody sort of have
Let's switch over to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
phone line and check in with our good buddy from
Columbus Business First dot com.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's Mark Summerson. Mark, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good morning? How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm doing just fine on a Friday the thirteenth, little snowy,
little chilly out there.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But I hope you're ready for I hope you're ready
for the weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
I am so, you say, six tenths breathing? Why do
I have to pay to get on to talk to you?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's something we's to talk about off the air act.
Why did you pull the curtain back on that? Let's
get to it, Mark, I see, and you do have
a couple of restaurant news pieces in here, which I'm
always excited about. And I unfortunately had never been to
Milestone two twenty nine to buy Centennial Park restaurant's been
around for what fourteen or fifteen years?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
They are closing.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, it's bad news.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
If you ever go to the arts festival or just
walking around by Centennial Park, you'll see those restaurants right
next to those fountains that work and sometimes don't work.
But yeah, it's had a rich history. But They just
announced they're closing on December thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
First. They said that they've enjoyed.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
All their time here, but they can't come to reach
the new lease terms with the City of Columbus, which owns.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The property, and they said it's just not going to
work for us.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I don't think you're going to see it stay shuttered
for too long. I believe you're going to within the
next month or two months, you're going to hear about
a new restaurant.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
With plans to move in there.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
The location is really good, right in the middle of downtown,
and as downtown is growing, the city.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Wants to get that space filled again.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So I think you're going to see some new restaurant
open up in there. And the bad news it's the
fourth downtown restaurant to close or announced plans to close
in last month. Of course, there are openings too. There
are new restaurants that are opening all the time downtown,
but for everyone that opens, there seems to be another
one that closes. So there's an Esco restaurant in Tapas
that has closed. El Camino Little Palace Bar on South
(01:57):
fourth Street. They closed at the end of November. Had
least bar closed this summer there. Unfortunately, restaurants, it's a
tough business and a lot of them close, a lot
of them open. So it's one of those that you
just kind of have to watch and see what's going
to fill in that spot. But I have a feeling
you're going to see or hear not too long from now.
Stay tuned for us because we'll be covering at once
(02:18):
a new name is announced for that space.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And you're right, that is a fantastic location for a restaurant.
I mean, it's shocking to me that somebody would struggle there,
but I vote for a new steakhouse. We have a
influx of steakhouses coming downtown, so I'm all about a
good steakhouse. Mark, I think we should bring a steakhouse
into that location.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I think you and I should run it, except I
have no experience, but I do like steak.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I have a little restaurant experience, but I don't have
any money.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So if you got the cash, I think I got
the experience, we'll figure.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It out together.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, I don't have either.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I just wanted to clarify that speaking with Mark perfect
It's Mark Summerson from Columbus Business. First Boy, I got
to tell you this, Ohio Health. This is just a
mega campus now and it's getting bigger. This is the
one right by Riverside Hospital, North Broadway, all on Tangy
and Clintonville.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
There.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
They're going to spend what two hundred and twenty six
million dollars on an outpatient cancer center there.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, this is a big deal of Ohio Health. If
you drive by Riverside Methodists Hospital, you'll see a giant
tower going up and that's going to be their Women's
health tower. They are in the midst of building that.
There's two huge cranes there every day, a lot of
workers there. And then this week they announced that they're
going to build this humongous outpatient or cancer center next
(03:34):
to its Columbus headquarters. Right across the river and across
North Broadway is the their headquarters and they are going
to build this behind it on what is now a
parking lot. It's going to be fairly large, and it's gonna.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Cost a lot of money, but they're gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You know, they have a lot of money. This is
one of those hospitals whose surplus seems to grow every year,
and they know that central Ohio's growing. They know that
there are patients out there that need this kind of help,
and they're going to build this on their campus because
they have the property. So, yeah, the Bloom Administration Administrative
Campus open in twenty nineteen, and this is going to
(04:13):
go right behind it. It's if you're familiar with that area,
there's a Coals which is really close to it, and
that area is supposed to be redeveloped down the road
by Croppert hoy Us plans for mixed use space, including
new apartments or condos there. So you're going to see
a lot of construction in and around that area. It's
near Clintonville and right off of Alan Tangi, and it's
(04:36):
going to be busy there in the next few months
and years.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I drive by it every day, Mark and it's I
feel like it's been busy for the last ten years
with construction in that area.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Oh, it really is. And now they're putting the new
bike and walking path right next to the headquarters and
so there's more construction going on.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
So if you live in that area.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I live in Clintonville and use North Broadway a lot.
You're getting used to seeing cra You're used to seeing
a lot of construction equipment and a lot of people
going through there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Do you know anything about that bike path? Is that
just a it goes along the river there? Is that
just taken? Is that connecting the existing bike path down
to into downtown.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
This has been a long time coming because a lot
of people who go through Clintonville on that bike path
have to get on roads and all this other stuff.
This is going to be a clear connector to it
and make it a lot more accessible. And the city's
got a timeline on that. They're putting a lot of
money into it, and for folks like me and Clintonville,
we just have to put up with the construction for
(05:34):
I don't know how long, but yeah, it's going to
be there.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Speaking of with the Mark Sommerson Columbus Business First, you
if you listen to these segments and enjoy them, go
check out maybe you get a subscription for yourself Columbus
Business First dot com. I see a black Kahawa coffee shop.
Is it was a just a kind of a little
coffee truck right now they've got a brick and mortar.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yes, as they've been working on the inside of this
coffee shop. They've been serving outdoors. Like you said, a
little trailer and a portable coffee basically a coffee company
there and it's trailer while the cafe space is being renovated.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's now open.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
The full cafe used to be a Tim Horton's and
now it's Lakahawa. And this is somebody that we've talked
to a few times. The guy who has started this
started in twenty nineteen. The idea had been going through
his mind for a while. He had lived in East
Africa for more than a decade, learned how to create
everything from cultivation to roasting, and this has been a
(06:34):
dream of his to open a space. And now it's there,
and it's in prime location downtown. He thinks the business
will do extremely well. And as more people are either
moving downtown or returning to work downtown, there's more visitors.
He thinks the business will do well. And there's a
lot of little businesses.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Now opening up in there.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
And this is just one of those great ideas and
we wish him all the luck. And yeah, it's cool
to see these businesses go from an idea in somebody's
head to a coffee trailer and now a full brick
and mortar spot.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I've not had black Ahawa coffee.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
But just based on the name alone, that sounds like
that sounds like it'll wake you up right now. I
don't think you're not going there to get a decaf.
I don't believe.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I've never had a decaf.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I don't understand this. It doesn't make any sense to me.
I mean, it's like eating a turkey bacon.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I can't. We've got a time for one more quick one.
I see.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
There's the city council is they're kind of looking at
a different housing strategy.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
What's the story.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh, I love this idea.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
This is a pilot program the city's starting and they're
going to have some forums to talk about it with residents.
These are called accessory dwelling units. These are secondary dwelling
units that you build on your property. Let's say it's
over your garage, to be in your backyard. You can
have one of these things, and they're going to show
you how to do it. They want to do this
(07:59):
to make sure that there is enough housing and affordable
housing in central Ohio. And so this this pilot program
is still we haven't got a date for when it's
going to start, but they really want to start working
with this you've seen tiny houses opening up.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
All over the place. This is basically that same idea.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's like you building like a mother in law suite
over your garage type of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean you still have to deal with your mother
in law, but that's still a pretty cool idea.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Or you could charge your mother in law rent and
everybody sort of have
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