Harrison West

by Matthew Williams On a cold but sunny Saturday morning, volunteers with the Harrison West Society Parks and Green Space committee spread around 300 square yards of mulch on the playground in Harrison Park. (I know; the photo doesn’t look sunny, but it was sunny when we started. The photo was taken when we were […]

by Matthew Williams This last full week of August 2012 has been a heck of a week for the Harrison West Society Parks and Green Space Committee. On Tuesday, 20 volunteers from OSU’s incoming freshman class joined the committee for a clean up in Harrison West Park. It was a chance for them to start […]

As soon as this month, the city of Columbus will breach the Fifth Avenue dam, opening up a beautiful new corridor through Harrison West. Through the northern half of our neighborhood, though, this monumental, long-in-coming change to our river will be hidden behind a wall of honeysuckle and other invasive species. What to do? We’ve […]

Harrison West has come a long way in the last 10 years. Much of the progress we’ve made has been due to our neighborhood’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) arrangement with the city of Columbus. The TIF has resulted in a windfall of money that we have used to build Harrison Park, but more money remains […]

As directed by the membership at the October 19, 2011 Harrison West Society meeting, the executive board of the Society has sent a letter to Columbus City Council member A. Troy Miller expressing its opposition to the variance request for the property on the south west corner of West First Avenue and Perry Street. The […]