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    Second Review Planned for Major Expansion of Dublin’s Bridge Street District

    Dublin’s Bridge Street District could expand significantly to the north in the next few years if a new proposal comes to fruition.

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    Longshore Street would be extended to connect John Shields Parkway and Tuller Road, and five new buildings would be built on both sides of the new road – an eight-story hotel, a six-story office building, a parking garage, and two residential buildings (one eight stories tall and the other nine).

    All of the buildings would have ground-level commercial space or retail storefronts.

    The proposal comes from Indus Companies, a Columbus-based firm with a long history of building and managing hotels in the region. Crawford Hoying, the primary developer of Bridge Park, is not involved in the project.

    David Kozar, a Partner/Owner of Indus, said that the company has been working with the city of Dublin on the project for about nine months. The first official submittal was made last fall, and the project is currently on the Planning and Zoning Committee’s agenda for discussion at its February meeting.

    “We made alterations to it based on the feedback we got from the meeting in the fall,” Kozar said, including shifting the locations of some of the buildings and adding a connector in between the two residential buildings.

    Altogether, the 6.29-acre site would hold a total of 169 residential units, a 147-room hotel, 101,000 square feet of office space, about 75,000 square feet of commercial space, and 14,000 square feet dedicated to restaurants.

    The proposed buildings would mostly be taller than those that have been built to the south, where the eight-story AC Marriott is the tallest building and most of the others are either five or six stories tall.

    The taller buildings allow for more open space to be incorporated into the plan, Kozar said.

    “I think the neighborhood has established itself,” he added. “And so we’re kind of building off of the pattern of the neighborhood, but adding…more green space, more outdoor activity space, more amenities than what you’ve seen in the other blocks of the neighborhood.”

    Construction at Bridge Park began in 2015 at the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and Dublin-Granville Road – the former site of a strip mall – and has steadily continued since then. Today, over 20 buildings have been built, containing over two dozen restaurants and retailers, hundreds of apartment and condo units, multiple office buildings and two hotels.

    Crawford Hoying announced in October that it was partnering with Cameron Mitchel Restaurants to bring a boutique hotel to a plot of land on the other side of Dublin-Granville Road, expanding the development to the south for the first time.

    Editor’s Note (1/27/23): This article was changed to remove references to the Indus proposal being an expansion of ‘Bridge Park,’ as that name technically only refers to Crawford Hoying’s development, while ‘Bridge Street District’ refers to the area more generally.

    Additional Reading: Brent Crawford and Bob Hoying Discuss Building Bridge Park

    For more information on the Indus proposal, see dublinohiousa.gov.

    An overview of the proposed development, the garage would hold about 800 cars – Rendering by Moody Nolan.
    A connector between the two residential buildings “is envisioned as a more transparent element,” according to the project narrative submitted to the city. Rendering by Moody Nolan.
    A site plan showing the layout of the proposed buildings and the central greenspace – By MKSK.

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