The Milo complex grew with the acquisition of several buildings on Cleveland Avenue, including a recording studio and a former auto shop that is now home to 934 Gallery. During the latter half of the 1990s, renovations to the building continued and amenities, such as private baths and kitchens, were added to many of the studios. In the early years a unique variance was won allowing for work, live, sell, perform all in one’s own artist space. The building plans call it non-separated mixed use – unique wording to allow the artists their full range of creativity while meeting their personal living needs. The large open spaces, abundant natural light and historic architectural features added to the appeal of the building for artist live-work studios. Before the first Columbus Dispatch article appeared, 26 artists had joined the community that is now the longest standing live-work artist residence in Columbus, Ohio. Nearly 40 artists now occupy the former classrooms converted to live-work studios. Freese, who also designed another famous Columbus landmark the Franklin Park Conservatory.Īfter 5 years, a core group of founding artists approached Rick with the vision to transform the building into an affordable live-work space, a dream that has become the Milo Arts community of today. The school was originally built in 1894 by the citizens of the town of Milo (long since absorbed into the city of Columbus) who pooled their resources so their children could receive an education. Snider purchased a vacant school in the Milo-Grogan neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. Homeport’s will devote our time to overseeing the quality of construction, working with the general contractor, Wallick Construction the architect, Hooker DeJong and Wallick Communities’ management staff, to be sure the details are right.In 1983, Richard W. What’s next? All 86 apartments will be renovated, building by building, over the next 18-plus months. Thank you to everyone who’s worked on this development! This type of investment is important in creating affordable housing that endures.Ĭredit is due to many people, inside and outside Homeport, for this milestone, in particular Brenda Peterson and Josh Casper, Homeport’s development staff who work on the project Roy Lowenstein, Homeport’s development consultant CMHA, for choosing Homeport as its partner and the construction’s financiers, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency, Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, Lument, and Ohio Capital Finance Corporation. That keeps these apartments available to a wide range of people, all while their apartments’ physical condition dramatically improves. Thanks to Thornwood Commons’ legacy of ownership by CMHA, every family who lives there will pay no more than 30% of their household income toward rent. Thornwood Commons’ renovations include new windows, cabinets, flooring, more energy-efficient heating and cooling equipment, and much more. The closing is more like a new starting line for any project: After more than two years of planning, Thornwood Commons is ready to start construction. Homeport is excited to announce that in late June we closed on the construction financing for our next development, “Thornwood Commons.” Thornwood Commons is an important partnership with the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, to extensively renovate 86 apartments for families that were originally built in the mid-1950s in Columbus’ Milo-Grogan neighborhood.
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