German Village

This is the page that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about German Village, Schumacher Place and Marion Village Real Estate. There is a lot to love about all of these fantastic neighborhoods just South of Downtown Columbus. From walkability to a great sense of community, German Village is an incredible place to call home.

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Can German Village Residents Save Schiller Park’s Ash Trees?

There is an article in today’s Dispatch about how German Village residents are banding together to pony up some money in an attempt to save some of Schiller Park’s oldest and most beautiful ash trees.  I never knew that some of those trees have been around since before the Civil War, Wow.

Schiller Park is one big reason why people buy homes for sale in German Village and to see of those ash trees come down would be a blow to the park. The Emerald Ash Borer has decimated ash trees everywhere and if the Schiller Park trees can be saved, it’d be great for German Village.  From today’s Dispatch story by ROBERT VITALE:

Residents are trying to raise $5,000 over the next five months to pay for a new treatment against the emerald ash borer. The treatment has been declared highly effective by researchers at Ohio State and Michigan State universities.

The insecticide would be injected into 31 ash trees in Schiller Park. Some are estimated to be 150 years old.

“I love those trees, and I can’t see losing them,” said Lindy Michael, a German Village resident who oversees a fund that since the 1970s has collected money to plant and maintain Schiller Park’s trees.

“We at least have to try to save them.”

The ash trees are only about 10 percent of the park’s trees but are some of its oldest.

City Forester Jack Low said a Biltmore ash near Jaeger Street on the park’s eastern end has been ranked among the largest in Ohio. A white ash near City Park and Reinhard avenues and a blue ash near a statue of Friedrich von Schiller, for whom the park is named, probably predate the city’s purchase of the land in 1867.

The Schiller Park trees have shown no signs of infestation by the emerald ash borer, which has killed tens of millions of trees from Canada to Tennessee since it was found near Detroit in 2002.

The beetle, native to Asia, is thought to have arrived in North America in wood used as shipping material. Adults eat tree leaves but….click here for the rest of the story

Searching for a Columbus Home for Sale – A Google Search Story

Searching for your next Columbus home without a professional Realtor isn’t easy.

Luckily, you have Delicious Real Estate.

Interstate 70/71 Split Fix will stress neighborhoods but eventually be good for Columbus Real Estate

Olde Towne East and the King Lincoln District will be eventual winners

If you’re considering a purchase on the Near East side of Columbus or in the German Village, Schumacher place communities, you should know that the Ohio Department of Transportation is going to tear up the highways on the East and South sides of downtown, where Interstates 70 and 71 meet and are the same road for a stretch.

Right now it’s a mess and the most congested, accident prone stretch of highway in the state.  Two generations ago, the highways tore apart neighborhoods and severed the Columbus Community while razing gorgeous and important residential and commercial buildings. Early ODOT renderings showed caps re-connecting downtown Columbus to its neighborhoods similar to the cap over I-670 that connects the Short North to downtown.

Now that construction is inching ever closer, it appears that only one of the bridges will be capped with enough real estate on top of it to actually build something – at Long Street over I-71, a big win for the King Lincoln Bronzeville neighborhood.  In the beginning though, there will only be a grassy field on the cap until a developer with some money decides to build there.

Most of the rest of the bridges be will built with the ability and strength to support a cap with buildings on it but that’d be an entirely new construction project or projects. Many Olde Towne East residents are upset that the project will wipe out a couple historic buildings on Parsons Avenue, including Carabar and ET Paul Tires–the Country’s  first gas station (I know, the irony).

I love the idea of a functional Broad Street bridge over I-71 that is pedestrian friendly with no on or off ramps coming onto Broad. Throw in that treed, park like median we’ve all been hearing about for years, extend it to Franklin Park and we’ll be in business.

It’s going to be a pain for residents of KLD and OTE for the next 4-6 years and there will be inconveniences. I don’t think property values will be adversely affected in the short term. I do think that, in the end, with a solution in place that looks better, feels better and will be more connected than what is currently there, property values and interest in these areas will increase–with an obvious bump up for OTE and KLD which have so much more pricing room than German Village.

Here is the latest from THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Coveted highway caps still in Downtown plan
But budget will limit final number
Monday, July 19, 2010 02:51 AM
By Robert Vitale
Bridges over a rebuilt I-70/71 will be better than the standard concrete and chain-link of today.

But only one of the six spans to be replaced during the project’s first half will include a Short North-style cap that near-Downtown neighborhoods have coveted throughout the planning process.

Ohio Department of Transportation officials say earlier drawings and descriptions were conceptual and now are outdated, even though they’re still posted on the agency’s website. The “visioning exercises” included cost estimates but weren’t subjected to the budget realities applied as the state moves toward a 2011 construction kickoff.

“We’re down to the nuts-and-bolts decisions now,”  more here

The Scioto Mile – What’s new on Columbus’ downtown riverfront park?

The beginning of the Bicenetennial Park Bandshell and Cafe

For the latest in what is new in regard to the Scioto Mile, check their blog… http://www.sciotomile.com/inside-the-mile

I’m down that way once a week or so and I’m always surprised at the progress. Though I have to say that I’m never surprised by the progress of the Main Street bridge–it seems like it’s the longest project in the world.

The Scioto Mile is a $44 million investment in Downtown Columbus’ Riverfront. Under the direction of Columbus Downtown Development Corporation (CDDC), which was created in 2002 to lead Downtown redevelopment and implement the Downtown Strategic Plan, The Scioto Mile is just one part of the City’s five-part revitalization plan.

Part of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, The Scioto Mile features:

• The Promenade on the Scioto Mile, a grand esplanade and green corridor that stretches along Civic Center Drive from Broad Street to Rich Street, connecting Battelle Riverfront Park with the John W. Galbreath Bicentennial Park.
• The John W. Galbreath Bicentennial Park, a 4.7-acre park featuring a stunning 15,000-square-foot water fountain, casual dining cafe and eye-catching bandshell.