The Columbus Street Rail Project, also known as the Trolley District, will rehabilitate five buildings totaling more than 60,000 square feet on over three acres of land at the northeast corner of Oak Street and Kelton Avenue. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the buildings, built between 1880 and 1920, served as a hub for the city’s trolley transportation system for decades. The long-empty and neglected buildings were purchased by Connect Real Estate in 2014 and will soon see new life as a multi-tenant mixed-use project that will include a public market, a craft brewery integration center, a smokehouse for a local barbeque distributor and several other office and retail tenants located in the flex spaces.
The $20 million project was awarded $2 million in Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits in June of 2018. Construction is slated to begin in Fall 2019.
