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Ohio State Re-Routes Thoroughfare to Protect Campus By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
A road project currently underway to protect the Ohio State University from flooding will have come with an added bonus once completed — additional acreage on which plans for development are already in the works by school administrators. The $51.9 million phase one of Ohio State’s Framework 2.0 Master Plan straightens Cannon Drive from King Avenue to John Herrick Avenue and elevates the roadway from four to eight feet, creating a 100-year flood barrier. Phase two, expected to kick off in 2020, will further the realignment from Herrick Avenue to Woody Hayes Drive, also elevating it four to eight feet and creating a 500-year flood barrier. In moving the roadway, which runs along the Olentangy River, 12 Overhead view of the $51.9 million phase one of Ohio State University’s Framework 2.0 acres will become available for develop- Master Plan.
ment. That acreage will be the home of a new medical facility in the area of the Columbus, Ohio, campus known as the Medical District. “The move of Cannon Drive is really about protecting the university and, primarily, the health sciences district and the medical center from the 100- and 500year flood events,” explained Mark Conselyea, associate vice president of the Office of Facilities Operation and Development (FOD). Phase one of the project, which began Sept. 5, 2017, is about 85 percent complete, according to project manager Tom Ekegren. Work is expected to run through autumn 2019. Part of the project is a pump house powered by three massive pumps that can drive 27,000 gallons of water per minute away from the campus and back into the river. “By doing this project, it raises the prosee OSU page 4
AGC Warns of Labor Shortage Despite Toledo’s Growth (L-R): Lucas County Commission chair Tina SkeldonWozniak, Ohio Contractors Association President Chris Runyan, Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (Ohio 9th District), Lucas County Commissioner Gary Byers, AGC of Northwest Ohio CEO Joshua M. Hughes, AGC of America Vice President of Public Affairs and Strategic Initiatives Brian Turmail and Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz.
By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
A July 31 press conference in Toledo, Ohio, organized by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and the AGC of Northwest Ohio highlighted the results of monthly analysis of U.S. Department of Labor data on construction employment in the nation’s 358 metropolitan centers between June 2018 and June 2019. That study revealed that Toledo is the fifth fastest-growing construction market in the country, however, Ohio’s fourth-largest city also is facing a shortage of construction workers like many other metropolitan areas. In addition to AGC officials, the
press conference featured U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D—Toledo), Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and Tina Skeldon Wozniak, president of the Lucas County commissioners, along with fellow commissioners Pete Gerken and Gary Byers, who highlighted major construction projects in the metro area and raised the issue of Toledo’s worker shortage. The AGC study, 2019 Construction Hiring & Business Outlook, stressed how more people have entered the construction workforce, but noted that the shortage of workers remains a major concern nationwide. The press conference was aptly held in east Toledo at a site that looks see AGC page 2