Community Launches Plan to Spruce Up Intersection
Published: April 22, 2009
Updated: April 22, 2009
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio—It’s known as the “Gateway to Reynoldsburg.“
It is the intersection of Brice Road and Livingston Avenue, but some community leaders say it’s anything but a gateway nowadays.
Empty restaurants and stores are what welcome you to the area after some big chain stores went out of business several years ago, including the Big Bear store.
Reynoldsburg Mayor Brad McCloud says a task force is working to change that in hopes more businesses will come back to the area.
McCloud enlisted OSU graduate students to do a study on the area, focusing on a 1/2-mile radius around the intersection.
The students were told to come up with low-cost solutions to improve the look of the area.
“We told them these things they come up with need to be low-cost, no-cost. Some of it is purely aesthetic,“ McCloud said.
McCloud says the suggestions range from more landscaping on streets to better lighting and street signs.
The official plan is expected to be completed in late summer with implementation to follow.
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More detail from the This Week Community Newspapers - Reynoldsburg: http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/reynoldsburg/stories/2009/04/22/0423rbbrice-livingston_ln.html?sid=104
Brice-Livingston is a blight and will remain so as long as commerce continues to move East along I-70 out of the area. Area residents objected loudly to a church going into the former Big Bear building saying it would bring the wrong kind of people into the area. I guess they prefer a big empty box to Sunday traffic snarls. Nearby the Wasabi Bar had to be torn down to make the trouble it had go away. Before any more new commercial construction is allowed in Reynoldsburg the city should insist businesses consider moving into existing empty store fronts and restaurants and perhaps even offer them tax incentives. Or maybe Mayor Brad can build a few more useless walls and plant some tiger lilies to prettify the intersection? The area needs help Mr. Mayor! Are you listening?
As a resident of that area in question, I am really glad to hear this….after Big Bear went out of business, I felt the City had forgotten about us..they seemed to be more worried about other areas of the city.
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