Gahanna
New owner in store for Creekside
By Marla K. Kuhlman ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 22, 2012 1:23 PM City and business leaders are about to welcome Strathmore Development Co., a Michigan-based company poised to become the new Creekside owner about a year after it went into foreclosure. Court-appointed receiver Ohio Equities LLC filed a motion in Franklin County Common Pleas [...]
Read More >>Move over, Zagat’s: Gahanna students wield stars
Goshen Lane Elementary School second-graders doled out five-star ratings to their favorite places around town while learning to back up their opinions with solid facts and details. Teacher Angie Buchert said her students read online reviews of restaurants and other businesses and talked about what makes a good review. “We quickly saw that the best [...]
Read More >>Gahanna’s Belli advances to state in two events
By AARON BLANKENSHIP ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 22, 2012 12:14 PM Morgan Belli of the Gahanna Lincoln High School girls swimming and diving team wasn’t satisfied with the way she performed in the Division I district meet Feb. 18 at Ohio State, even though she swam well enough to qualify for the state meet [...]
Read More >>Quiet Gahanna creek now ‘raging torrent’ threatening subdivision
Enlarge Image Gahanna city engineer Residents who moved into a subdivision next to Souder Ditch now fear the erosion is endangering their properties and homes. The city says it will cost $250,000 to create a detention basin in nearby Gahanna Woods to help fix the problem. By Quan Truong The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday February 21, [...]
Read More >>Gahanna’s Belli sets sights on state swim success
Gahanna Lincoln swimmer Morgan Belli is going back to the state meet this week. But the sophomore wasn’t exactly beaming after she qualified for another Canton trip at the Division I district meet Saturday, Feb. 18, at Ohio State University’s McCorkle Aquatic Center. She automatically advanced to states by virtue of her second place in [...]
Read More >>Downtown Livonia? Council committee looks at idea
City officials are examining and investigating the possibility of creating a downtown Livonia. City Council members are expected to travel to Gahanna, Ohio, a suburb with 33,000 residents located east of Columbus, to view a downtown, mixed-use, high-density area. Gahanna’s Creekside development features 71 luxury condominiums, 100,000 square feet of commercial space in three separate [...]
Read More >>Driver Crashes Into Drive-Thru & Steals Cigarettes, Police Say
GAHANNA, Ohio – Officers are looking for a suspect who allegedly crashed his car into a Gahanna drive-thru before stealing cartons of cigarettes. Gahanna police asked the public to help identify a suspect who allegedly broke into the Rossetti’s Drive-Thru Express at 154 S. Stygler Rd. The suspect backed a four-door Chevy sedan through the [...]
Read More >>Creekside development Gahanna
By Steve Wartenberg The Columbus Dispatch Friday February 17, 2012 1:37 PM Enlarge Image Fred Squillante | Columbus Dispatch The lobby of the Residences of Creekside in Gahanna, photographed in 2009. The $60 million development includes 69 upscale condominiums, only 11 of which have been sold. A buyer has been found for the Gahanna Creekside [...]
Read More >>Basketball teams are ready for tourney openers
By BRAD EMERINE ThisWeek Community Newspapers Saturday February 18, 2012 6:17 AM In preparation for its postseason opener, the Delaware Christian School girls basketball team has been put through coach Jackie Boggs’ version of basic training since the end of the regular season Feb. 11. The Eagles hope the workouts will pay dividends when they [...]
Read More >>Gahanna’s Creekside Could Have New Owner
Creekside, the retail, office and residential space in the heart of Gahanna’s business district, could be purchased by a Michigan company, 10TV reported on Friday. Michigan-based Strathmore Development Co. submitted a $10.5 million bid for the portion of the development that was reclaimed by Huntington National Bank last year. Huntington Bank filed suit in March [...]
Read More >>Gahanna Police Search For Drive-Thru Robbery Suspect
GAHANNA, Ohio – Officers are looking for a suspect who allegedly crashed his car into a Gahanna drive-thru before stealing cartons of cigarettes. Gahanna police asked the public to help identify a suspect who allegedly broke into the Rossetti’s Drive-Thru Express at 154 S. Stygler Rd. The suspect backed a four-door Chevy sedan through the [...]
Read More >>The 5th Annual Free Heartland Bank Financial Summit Presented by Heartland …
GAHANNA, Ohio, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Heartland Bank, 104.9 The River and ABC 6/ FOX 28 team up to present the 2012 Money Matters Financial Summit, a free event for individuals interested in getting some additional assistance with their finances. This event will take place on Saturday, February 25, 2012, 8:30 am [...]
Read More >>Downtown Livonia? Council committee looks at the idea
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 5–> City officials are examining and investigating the possibility of creating a downtown Livonia. City council members are expected to travel to Gahanna, Ohio, a suburb with 33,000 residents located east of Columbus, to view a downtown, mixed-use, high-density area. Gahanna’s Creekside development features 71 luxury condominiums, 100,000 square feet of commercial [...]
Read More >>Gahanna police seek assistance to identify robbery suspect
By Marla K. Kuhlman ThisWeek Community Newspapers Thursday February 16, 2012 3:54 PM The Gahanna Police Department is seeking the public’s help to identify a suspect from a theft that occurred at 1 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the Rossetti Drive Thru on West Johnstown Road. The thief used a four-door silver Chevy sedan to [...]
Read More >>Stinchcomb schedules first mandated ‘State of the City’
By Marla K. Kuhlman ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 15, 2012 1:10 PM Gahanna Mayor Becky Stinchcomb will present the first city charter-mandated State of the City address beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, at Gahanna City Hall, 200 S. Hamilton Road. Brian Hoyt, Gahanna public information manager. said Stinchcomb’s speech would focus on [...]
Read More >>‘Herbal Trail’ to launch in spring; 16 restaurants participating
By Marla K. Kuhlman ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 15, 2012 1:10 PM Come springtime, Gahanna businesses and residents should expect a marketing blitz related to the city being the herb capital of Ohio, thanks to a Gahanna Convention Visitors Bureau initiative called the “Herbal Trail.” Karen Eylon, GCVB director, told ThisWeek 16 restaurants already [...]
Read More >>Gahanna girls pleased by sectional showing
Enlarge Image Adam Cairns/ThisWeek Gahanna’s Chris Chang finished fourth in the 200-yard individual medley and seventh in the 100 breaststroke in a Division I sectional meet Feb. 11 at Thomas Worthington. Chang also advanced to district in a pair of relays. Buy This Photo By AARON BLANKENSHIP ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 15, 2012 9:12 [...]
Read More >>Gahanna girls tested by league play
By JARROD ULREY ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 15, 2012 9:13 AM Gahanna Lincoln High School girls basketball coach Rick Hauser is of the belief that each of the top four finishers in the OCC-Ohio Division could have won titles if they’d been in the OCC-Cardinal or OCC-Central this winter. The Division I district tournament [...]
Read More >>Council considers new city positions
By Marla K. Kuhlman ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 15, 2012 1:08 PM Gahanna City Council on Feb. 13 began scrutinizing a request for a public-information intern and an administrative assistant for the mayor’s office. Human-resources director Sue Wadley has requested that council reclassify a current vacant position from executive assistant to administrative assistant. The [...]
Read More >>Gahanna lands prototype for Sunny Day Academy
By Marla K. Kuhlman ThisWeek Community Newspapers Wednesday February 15, 2012 1:09 PM Gahanna next year will become home to the prototype building of a children’s day-care facility called Sunny Day Academy. The Gahanna Planning Commission on Feb. 8 unanimously approved a final development plan, design review and conditional use for the 10,720-square-foot building on [...]
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