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The next leg of Dublin's Emerald Parkway expansion project will get a $900,000 funding boost from the state.
The state Controlling Board this week approved a grant from the Ohio Department of Development to help fund the construction of Emerald Parkway between Riverside Drive and Bright Road.
The Emerald Parkway project, which aims to expand the road from Tuttle Crossing Boulevard to Sawmill Road, carries a total price tag of about $60-million.
The next leg, which will be funded with help from the state grant, is projected to cost $13.3-million, which includes construction and right-of-way acquisition. According to city plans, the four-lane Emerald Parkway extension will run parallel with Interstate 270 then run north to connect with Bright Road, east of Macbeth Road.
This project will not connect the western segment of Emerald Parkway to the segment that runs between Sawmill and Hard roads.
A start date for construction has not been announced, but Dublin's capital improvements program allocates funding for the project in 2010.
According to Dana McDaniel, Dublin's director of economic development, this state grant has been in the works since 2007, amidst talks for the Cardinal Health headquarters expansion.
"We approached the state for funding in 2007 and we knew Dublin was going to be working on getting the final phase of Emerald Parkway done," he said. "We were talking to Cardinal Health about the new jobs they wanted to bring to central Ohio and the new headquarters tied into the Emerald Parkway extension."
McDaniel said the $50-million Cardinal Health expansion that opened in March will host some of the additional 700 jobs tied to the grant. "Those jobs have been coming to Dublin over the past 18 months," he said.
The construction of the next leg of Emerald Parkway also will open up more land fronting I-270, fulfilling Dublin's plan for a northeast gateway to the city.
According to McDaniel, the land has been identified in the community plan for premium and standard office space and mixed-used developments.
"The quadrant there around 270 is almost all farmland," he said.
The extension also will improve transportation in Dublin and central Ohio, he said.
"It's a good regional asset; it will take some traffic off 270," McDaniel said. "It will help regional transportation, open up additional land and serve the expansion of Cardinal Health. We really appreciate the state's help."
The next leg of Dublin's Emerald Parkway expansion project will get a $900,000 funding boost from the state.
The state Controlling Board this week approved a grant from the Ohio Department of Development to help fund the construction of Emerald Parkway between Riverside Drive and Bright Road.
The Emerald Parkway project, which aims to expand the road from Tuttle Crossing Boulevard to Sawmill Road, carries a total price tag of about $60-million.
The next leg, which will be funded with help from the state grant, is projected to cost $13.3-million, which includes construction and right-of-way acquisition. According to city plans, the four-lane Emerald Parkway extension will run parallel with Interstate 270 then run north to connect with Bright Road, east of Macbeth Road.
This project will not connect the western segment of Emerald Parkway to the segment that runs between Sawmill and Hard roads.
A start date for construction has not been announced, but Dublin's capital improvements program allocates funding for the project in 2010.
According to Dana McDaniel, Dublin's director of economic development, this state grant has been in the works since 2007, amidst talks for the Cardinal Health headquarters expansion.
"We approached the state for funding in 2007 and we knew Dublin was going to be working on getting the final phase of Emerald Parkway done," he said. "We were talking to Cardinal Health about the new jobs they wanted to bring to central Ohio and the new headquarters tied into the Emerald Parkway extension."
McDaniel said the $50-million Cardinal Health expansion that opened in March will host some of the additional 700 jobs tied to the grant. "Those jobs have been coming to Dublin over the past 18 months," he said.
The construction of the next leg of Emerald Parkway also will open up more land fronting I-270, fulfilling Dublin's plan for a northeast gateway to the city.
According to McDaniel, the land has been identified in the community plan for premium and standard office space and mixed-used developments.
"The quadrant there around 270 is almost all farmland," he said.
The extension also will improve transportation in Dublin and central Ohio, he said.
"It's a good regional asset; it will take some traffic off 270," McDaniel said. "It will help regional transportation, open up additional land and serve the expansion of Cardinal Health. We really appreciate the state's help."
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Dublin history lesson
Peter and Benjamin Sells came to the area around 1801 from Huntington County, Pa., to buy land. Old Dublin was first platted in 1810 by their brother, John. Surveyor John Shields named the town after his birthplace in Ireland. The town developed the usual assortment of mills, shops and churches, with settlers coexisting peacefully with Wyandot Indians, who camped on Indian Run. The town gained notoriety in the mid-19th century, when a surplus of taverns and rowdy Civil War veterans gave the village a tough reputation. Columbus' growth and the construction of I-270 made expansion inevitable. Dublin achieved city status in 1987.
Source: Columbus Dispatch library research
Source: Columbus Dispatch library research
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