Arena District

Format
Full

City
Columbus

State/Province
OH

Country
USA

Metro Area
Columbus

Project Type
Mixed Use

Location Type
Other Central City

Land Uses
Arena
Mixed Use--Three Uses or More
Multifamily For-Sale Housing
Multifamily Rental Housing
Office
Retail

Keywords
Adaptive use
Infill development
Public-private partnership
Urban regeneration

Site Size
75 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
1998

Date Opened
2000

Built on the site of a former penitentiary, the Arena District in downtown Columbus, Ohio, is a 75-acre (30.35-hectare) entertainment center with the 685,000-square-foot (63,639-square-meter) Nationwide Arena serving as its anchor. The arena is home to the National Hockey League’s Columbus Blue Jackets and the Arena Football League’s Columbus Destroyers. Developed to help transform the area into a 24/7 neighborhood, supportive retail and restaurants, a movie theater, office space, and residential units constitute the rest of the district in an architectural style that blends historic buildings and facades with new construction. The Arena District is the result of a public/private partnership among Nationwide Realty Investors, the Dispatch Printing Company, and the city of Columbus.

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World Region: North America
Developer(s): Nationwide Realty Investors
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Designer(s): MSI Design
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