A developer wants to build a mixed-use development on 41 acres near John Glenn Columbus International Airport.
Metro Development LLC, an affiliate of Westerville-based Donald R. Kenney & Company Realty, wants to build apartments, an ambulatory care facility, hotel and commercial space along Cassady Avenue at the intersection with Ackley Place. The development would replace a few single-family homes and agricultural land on the site, just north of the I-670 interchange and the airport runways.
The property currently is owned by half a dozen small companies and individuals with addresses in Columbus and Pataskala.
The Northeast Area Commission voted this month to approve the application as long as the retail does not include liquor sales and small cellphone stores. Columbus City Council heard a first reading Monday night to rezone the land from rural.
The property is surrounded by a mix of low-density residential developments to the north and west. There is a wider range of more dense commercial building to the south and east. Another hotel is going up immediately to the south.
Because the land would be rezoned, the plans did not include specifics on how much was to be built on the land, though a rendering by Faris Planning & Design submitted with the plan shows more than a dozen buildings around Ackley Place.
That drawing shows the ambulatory care facility is the largest, straddled by two office buildings and a hotel. Three smaller commercial buildings are shown along Cassady Avenue. Meanwhile, most of the central portion of the development would be designated as "extended stay."
