Harrison West

By Mary Martineau Bob Mangia has been living in Harrison West since he bought his house on Bradley Street in 1997. He was renting in Italian Village when he decided to become a homeowner and found the prices in Harrison West easily affordable at the time. Bob has worked at Market Blooms in the North […]

By Mary Martineau Somer Mager is sometimes known as “SomSom” by those near and dear to her and as “Somertime” to friends she’s met through local online community, Columbus Underground. Somer has been a Harrison West resident living in the apartment complex at Thurber Drive and West First Avenue for two years. Hailing from Wichita […]

By Mary Martineau Anton Wood, owner of Caffe’ Apropos offered this explanation for the name of his establishment: “Apropos in Latin means ‘perfect timing,’ and it seemed appropriate for the corner of Third and Michigan in Harrison West six years ago as the neighborhood was turning the corner and gentrifying quickly. It was also perfect […]

By Mary Martineau Spinelli’s Deli is owned and operated by Joe Spinelli and Bill Ward. It opened as a Manhattan Bagel franchise in 1997 but became the independently operated and rhyming-ly named café in 2001. When asked how the name evolved, Joe shrugs and offers, “Bill liked it and it rhymed. We had a bunch […]

By Mary Martineau A Michigan Avenue resident and, in fact, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Gil appreciates the irony of now living in and loving Columbus. He’s named after his father, Gil (who is “Gil,” not “Gilbert”), but he avoided the “junior” appellation by incorporating his father’s forename into his own. He’s just “Gil” to […]