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Many of our Olympic swimmers were able to collect their piece of history from the record boards before we shut our doors. For those of you that did not and for all others interested in the impressive times our swimmers acheived, take a peak at these pictures!

End of An Era: Clintonville’s Olympic Swim Club Closes For Good For 76 years neighbors have cooled off at the Olympic Swim Club. But now it’s closed for good. And generations of Clintonville residents are saddened by the shutdown.

Reynoldsburg Swim Club Owners Looking To Sell Pool The Reynoldsburg Swim Club may be in danger of closing permanently. Get the story.

New scope for The Olympic

You spoke, we listened.

The constructive and informed comments we’ve received from Clintonville residents and neighbors have had significant impact on plans for The Olympic. The message has been generally consistent: the project reflects the highest and best use but there are five points that are questioned. Theses points are density, setback, height, parking and traffic. After considering all perspectives we have made the following changes.

DENSITY:

The Olympic has been tested at unit counts ranging from 138 to 181. Although we initially settled on 152 apartments, we now propose 138 apartments.

SETBACK:

We agree that the project benefits from greater distance from the right of way and existing power lines. Although The Olympic was originally proposed to be 16’ from the curb, we have compressed the structure and The Olympic is a minimum of 20’ from the curb.

HEIGHT:

Additional setback minimizes the impact of height. We have also removed 2’ from the project’s overall height by lowering the ceilings in the first floor commercial space. This puts The Olympic’s finished height of the third floor facing Indianola at 36’.

PARKING AND TRAFFIC:

By code our new project scope requires 335 parking spaces. The Olympic’s parking can be divided into three buckets; on site, irrevocably assigned spaces from the tennis lot, and spaces available when not used by tennis. On site there are 224 spaces. These are contiguous to 34 spaces being irrevocably assigned to The Olympic from the tennis lot. Therefore, 258 spots available at all times. Additionally, when the tennis club is closed, another 81 parking spaces are available. Accordingly, based on over 40 years of historic operations at the tennis facility, there will be 339 spaces available to The Olympic for nearly half the year.

Additionally,

The biggest generator of parking demand will be restaurants; we are prepared to introduce valet parking which is already used and accepted in the area.If residents along neighboring streets experience spillover parking they have the option of creating permit parking zones in front of their homes. This is common in many Columbus neighborhoods.If the Department of Public Utilities opens their neighboring lots for shared parking it benefits the project and community. Our architect’s review of the city site reveals as many as 80 – 90 parking spaces available after the city’s regular business hours.

Regarding parking, The Olympic presents a strong inventory of parking in an area that often receives applications for significant or total waivers from code requirements.

Regarding traffic, the study by E.P. Ferris concludes that The Olympic will not produce new traffic issues in the short or long term. The reduction in unit count only reinforces this conclusion.

CONCLUSION

We have heard the community and have done our best to be responsive while maintaining an economically viable project. We thank everyone for their constructive input and look forward to delivering resource that gives the community great pride.



Copyright 2014 Olympic Beach Acquisitions, LLC.

Here we are, again. I guess it affects us all!

Council diving through data, seeking options for pools Gahanna parks and recreation director Tony Collins provided four options for the future of the city's pools, during the Aug. 25 council committee meeting.

Reunion event was a raging success yesterday!!! It was hot, sunny, and everyone came to see old friends. You all helped us raise almost $2000 for Melissa's House in memory of Alana!!!! Thank you, very, very much!
A special thanks to Abby Barton Miller and Jenny Barton Johnson for their great effort towards picking the date and getting the word out.
And as always, to our amazing icons, Bill Kilkenny and Peggy Reeder, who greeted you all and got to share in all your memories. We all love them so!!!
Great job, Clintonville!!!!

As a family, we are respectfully asking that there be no political literature or statements shared at the pool reunion event on Saturday the 23rd, or for the final week . Members and former members alike would like to enjoy the day and share memories and we would like to honor our family member, Alana Ralph, who passed last week. All admission proceeds on the 23rd will be donated to Melissa's House in her honor. Please see the postings on our page below for more information for Saturday.

Oh no...

Break-ins, vandalism force hiring of night security For the first time in more than two decades, Olympic Swim Club’s owners have hired night security in response to recent break-ins and instances of vandalism.

Rumor has it…a reunion is being planned!!!

We think that is a great idea so we would like to offer admission, with this coupon, at half price on Saturday, August 23rd! Olympic Swim Club will donate your $5 entry fee to Melissa’s House in honor of our beloved Alana Ralph. Melissa's House provides permanent housing for adults who are battling depression and mental illness — a supportive, safe environment where residents can enjoy independent living while receiving high-quality treatment. More information available at http://www.melissashouse.org.

Here is a little bonus…if you can find your old membership card bring it with you and get in for free (though any donation you’d like to make would be gratefully accepted)!! The lucky person with the oldest membership card of the day will win an Olympic Swim Club t-shirt.

We hope you can join us and please, keep in mind
the spirit of the day.

Alana Louise Ralph
July 23, 1976 to
August 13, 2014

It is with great sorrow that we share that our dearest Alana passed this week to be with her sweet baby Sammy. Alana was a playful, and witty beauty. She was a loving mother, daughter, sister, cousin and aunt. As her family, we will forever be sad that she could not see the bright light inside of her and move through her many challenges and traumas. Many of you will remember her big smile and gorgeous green eyes as she spent most of her short life working and playing at Olympic.

She now joins her infant son, Sam, her loving mother, Lynda, and our grandparents and we take comfort that they are all together. For all of us and for those of you who cherished her, we loved her the best we could. May she smile down upon us.

The Zimmerman Family