This week’s CMC forum looks at turning corner offices into condos in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Can empty skyscrapers be adapted into residences to help bring downtown Columbus back to life and provide new housing? Some developers are trying to do just that. It’s a transformation loaded with risk but with the potential to turn Columbus skyscrapers into the city’s newest residential neighborhoods.

Marc Conte, Executive Director, Capital Crossroads and Discovery Special Improvement Districts, provides introductory remarks on the state of downtown Columbus.

The panelists are:

Philip Aftuck, Director of Investments, The Bernstein Companies

Tracy Hadden Loh, Fellow with The Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking, Brookings Metro

The host is Sam Rosenthal, Principal, CEO, and Architect, Schooley Caldwell 

This forum was sponsored by The Capital Crossroads & Discovery Special Improvement Districts, The Edwards Companies, Marker, and The Robert Weiler Company, and was supported by the Grange Insurance Audubon Center. The forum livestream was supported by The Center for Human Kindness at The Columbus Foundation and The Columbus Dispatch.

This forum was recorded before a live audience on March 1, 2023.