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    Grange Insurance plans plaza, new offices

    The Dispatch wrote Grange Insurance plans plaza, new offices with environmental touches

    Monday, February 4, 2008

    BY MIKE PRAMIK

    THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

    Grange is about halfway through its $90 million, 240,000-square-foot addition to its Brewery District office building. The project features the 10-story building, a parking garage with more than 1,000 spaces, and a plaza that will create a landmark in the district at S. High and W. Sycamore streets.

    The Grange expansion will offer plenty of environmentally friendly touches, even though the company is not seeking formal Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, status with the U.S. Green Building Council.

    In addition to spaces for Grange employees and visitors, the garage will allow public access. Some spaces are being reserved for owners of condominiums being planned for the former Salvation Army warehouse just to the north. The garage will have about 20,000 square feet of office and retail space on the first and second levels that face S. Front Street and part of Sycamore Street. A walkway spanning Sycamore Street will link the garage to the main buildings.

    The new entry to the complex will be from High Street and will be across a plaza at High and Sycamore that will have a water feature of some kind.

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