LABA SERVICES THE FOLLOWING NEIGHBORHOODS:
LIVINGSTON PARK, OLD OAKS, DRIVING PARK & HANFORD VILLAGE
Success Stories of the LABA Territory
At Nationwide Children’s, we are creating the future of pediatric health care. We are more than a hospital. We are one of America’s largest pediatric health care and research centers delivering care for more than one million patient visits each year. Families travel from around the nation and around the globe to access life-saving treatments – many unavailable anywhere else. We are 68 facilities extending out across Ohio and beyond. It’s the pediatric expertise every child needs. Here, the future health and potential of all children, is being shaped. Here, our doctors and researchers are revolutionizing your child’s health and the health of future generations.
Driving Park Library
- $6 Million - 15,000 Sq Ft (old branch was 6,000)
- Customer visits are up 60% including homework assistance
- Community meeting increased fourfold
Awards: AIA Oh Honors, Contract Inspiration, Cols. Landmark Foundation, James Recchie Award
- Customer visits are up 60% including homework assistance
- Community meeting increased fourfold
Awards: AIA Oh Honors, Contract Inspiration, Cols. Landmark Foundation, James Recchie Award
- Opened Aug 2014 - K thru 8th Grades
- School Offers a project-based curriculum philosophy that incorporates technology and promotes independence and critical thinking
- Before and after school program
- Grief Counselors and tutoring
- Increasing enrollment
- School Offers a project-based curriculum philosophy that incorporates technology and promotes independence and critical thinking
- Before and after school program
- Grief Counselors and tutoring
- Increasing enrollment
Neighborhood Revitalization Spotlight
Driving Park Community Recreation Center
NOTICE: The Driving Park Community Center will be closed starting Summer of 2015 through Summer of 2016 for massive renovations. For the time being, all Driving Park Community Center programming will be held at Moler Elementary School
Buckeye Community Hope Foundation
Buckeye Community Hope Foundation is proposing Kent Place Homes, which is an integral part of a proposed multi-phased approach to revitalizing the area around the Kent School in the Driving Park neighborhood on the near east side of Columbus. The first phase of the Streetcar District Redevelopment Initiative (SDRI) involved the acquisition and renovation of the former Kent School, now Buckeye Preparatory Academy, which is educating over 140 students. This makes Driving Park an Area of Distinction. Buckeye acquired the Kent School in September of 2013 and completed the $2 million first phase of the redevelopment initiative, providing a high quality learning environment for children, many of which live in the surrounding neighborhood. The second phase of the SDRI is the proposed Kent Place Homes neighborhood revitalization.
Kent Place Homes is a proposed new construction, lease purchase family occupancy, infill affordable housing development. Kent Place Homes will consist of 53 newly constructed single-family homes under the housing credit’s lease-purchase option. Both city and county land banks are partners in assisting in the aggressive acquisition and blight elimination within SDRI. To date, the city land bank has over $900,000 invested in this partnership. These new homes are designed to the new energy code 3.0 which makes them highly energy efficient and affordable for the residents. Creating opportunities through pairing education with high-quality housing is the primary goal of Kent Place Homes.
Kent Place Homes is a proposed new construction, lease purchase family occupancy, infill affordable housing development. Kent Place Homes will consist of 53 newly constructed single-family homes under the housing credit’s lease-purchase option. Both city and county land banks are partners in assisting in the aggressive acquisition and blight elimination within SDRI. To date, the city land bank has over $900,000 invested in this partnership. These new homes are designed to the new energy code 3.0 which makes them highly energy efficient and affordable for the residents. Creating opportunities through pairing education with high-quality housing is the primary goal of Kent Place Homes.
- National Historic Landmark (one of 3 in Columbus, OH)
- City transfer title donated $46,628 for repairs
- Plans are for STEM facilities, museum and community center
- City transfer title donated $46,628 for repairs
- Plans are for STEM facilities, museum and community center
Healthy Homes is an affordable housing initiative and key HNHF platform to revitalize 38 square blocks around Nationwide Children's Hospital. The nonprofit organization, Community Development for All People (CD4AP) and Nationwide Children's Hospital have partnered to form the nonprofit Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families Realty Collaborative as a subsidiary of CD4AP to build and rehabilitate and repair houses to sell.
• Full-gut renovations (38 sold, 8 in-progress/on the market)
• New builds (8 sold, 2 in-progress)
• Grants to current residents through the Home Repair Program
• Full-gut renovations (38 sold, 8 in-progress/on the market)
• New builds (8 sold, 2 in-progress)
• Grants to current residents through the Home Repair Program
- Hospital Contribution: $4,613,000
- City of Columbus Contribution: $4,456,756
- Proceeds from Sale of Housing: $3,289,228
- United Way Contribution: $1,351,256
- Central Ohio Community Improvement Corporation: $40,000
- Donations: $174,710