PACT Featured in Columbus Underground for REI Proposal Search

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Group Seeking Developers to Transform Several Key Sites Along Taylor Avenue

Plans are moving forward to redevelop several key properties on the Near East Side. PACT, the neighborhood organization started over a decade ago by the City of Columbus, Ohio State University and the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, is soliciting proposals from developers to build on nine different sites.

Clustered along the Taylor Avenue corridor, the parcels all together add up to about about six acres of land. Some of them have existing buildings on them and some don’t.

The group sent out a Request for Expressions of Interest (REI) in August outlining its expectations and preferences for what might get built on each of the parcels, including which of the existing buildings should be prioritized for preservation and which most likely need to be demolished.

PACT owns or controls nearly all of the properties and in some cases has worked to shore up and stabilize the buildings to position them better for a future renovation work.