APA Awards 2010: Campus Partners' University District Revitalization - Columbus, OH

National Planning Excellence Award for Implementation

Campus Partners' University District Revitalization
Columbus, Ohio

Campus Partners is a university-led partnership that has succeeded in revitalizing the economically and racially diverse district around Ohio State University. OSU formed Campus Partners in 1995 with an independent mission and board responsible to stakeholders beyond its university to address physical, social, and environmental issues facing an entire urban district with a population of 40,000.

The "smart growth" agenda — aimed at reviving the district's neighborhoods as places of choice — has three core goals: pursuit of a fully inclusive planning process involving the city, residents, and community groups; introduction of new amenities and housing to attract the university community back to the district; and promotion of social equity by improving quality of life and economic opportunity for all residents. Campus Partners has leveraged more than $150 million in investment in district neighborhoods, including renovation and development of roughly 1,000 housing units of Section 8, affordable, and market-rate housing; redevelopment of a large brownfield site; a new police station; new public elementary school; and OSU's new early-childhood learning center.

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Education

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• APA
• Columbus
• Ohio
• Ohio State University
• OSU
• redevelopment
• planning
• smart growth
• community
• Campus Partners
• neighborhood
• housing
• University District
• brownfields