Metropolitan Downtown Columbia Begins Construction
Developers and county officials broke ground on the mixed-use building near the Mall in Columbia on Monday morning.
Shovel-wielding development and county officials braved wet weather and gray skies to break ground on the Downtown Metropolitan Columbia on Monday morning. The groundbreaking represents the first mixed-use buildings to break ground in the Warfield area around the Mall in Columbia as part of the greater development of Downtown Columbia. "What I really liked to do is build things," said John DeWolf, senior vice president for the Howard Hughes Corp., the development firm working on the project along with Kettler and Orchard Development. "Now we get to build things." "I grew up in the planned community business," said Bob Kettler, President of Kettler. "Our role model is Jim Rouse... This is one of the best opportunities we can think of in …
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Rob Kay
10:05 am on Friday, January 25, 2013
Sad to see LL Bean go. There was talk of LL Bean moving somewhere else nearby, but apparently not. The store was relatively unique. It is being replaced with more restaurants I probably won't go to.... more ›