Reported by the Columbus Dispatch on April 20, 2009
Although they couldn''t score federal economic-stimulus money for demolition, officials of the nonprofit development agency that owns the shuttered Downtown mall said today that they''ll move forward this summer with plans to tear it down.
The City Council gave the Capitol South Urban Redevelopment Corp. permission tonight to refinance existing loans on City Center parking garages, borrow additional money and use funds earmarked for Downtown housing projects to pay for the work.