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Feb 23, 2021 · The community of North Linden, before it was annexed into Columbus, got its start in the 1800s. The North Linden the neighborhood borders I-71 to the West, East Hudson Street to the South, East ...
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Nov 25, 2018 · John and Claudia Riley have lived in the Kenmore Park area of Linden for 44 years, and remember what Cleveland Avenue used to be like. "Doughnut shops, sit-down drugstore soda fountains, Burger King, hardware store, furniture store, neighborhood grocery store," said John Riley, 75, and a retired Columbus City Schools teacher.
The newly built Linden Community Center is almost double the size of the old one it replaced. This high-tech facility features multi-purpose rooms, a room set aside for senior citizens, a state-of-the-art kitchen where a chef can conduct cooking classes, a high school-regulation basketball court, and next door, room for dance groups, and a music studio unique to a Columbus community center.
NDC provides affordable, professional design services to revitalize the built environment of underserved communities for economic prosperity and an enriched quality of life. At the Neighborhood Design Center (NDC) we believe that design is a right, not a privilege. NDC is a partnership between the City of Columbus and The Ohio State University.
The new recreation center and 20-acre renovated Linden Park at 1254 Briarwood Ave. will cost $20 million to $25 million. At 50,000 square feet, the new center will be double the size of the existing one built on the same site in 1951. It will have a gymnastics room, a performance stage and a teaching kitchen, better lighting and a “spray ...
Cedar Central Public Housing Expansion, 1957 Gladstone (Area O) existed in a framework of other urban renewal projects meant to improve the Central neighborhood, as outlined by Cleveland's General Plan of 1949. The earliest project, the Cedar Apartments, started in 1937, but most of the other projects in the area started in the 1950s.
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Of the 1,755 immigrants and refugees living in the Linden area, 623 — or more than 35 percent — come from Africa, including Somalia on its eastern coast. Ninety-nine people are from Ghana on the western coast, and 139 are from northern Africa. In addition, 381 people have Mexican roots, 62 are from Guatemala, and 41 are from Haiti.
