Marble Cliff Quarry Metro Park

The marble cliff quarry metro park is one step closer to reality when metro parks first announced project qt last year everyone was pretty hyped.

Marble cliff quarry metro park.

Residents should have made some campaign donations to ginther pac to get his attention. 1 point 9 months ago. In march metro parks purchased 62 acres of the site for 1 8 million from marble cliff canyon llc a limited liability company created by wagenbrenner and it bought another 118 acres for 5 3. Columbus franklin county metro parks closed on 118 acres of land for the sprawling quarry site west.

Planning and design are underway at quarry trails the 20th metro park. Thrive companies revives neglected land for imaginative and collaborative spaces. We create communities to help people thrive. We are calling on you to help metro parks and wagenbrenner development create a truly unique place to play live and work.

Now we ve got even more to be excited about. Another step in the redevelopment of the 600 acre marble cliff quarry site has been completed. 118 acres more to be exact. Hiking biking picnicking fishing and other traditional activities associated with the park system will be offered along with other more adventurous challenges such as climbing and paddle boarding.

The proposed redevelopment of the 600 acre marble cliff quarry includes a columbus franklin county metro parks developed 180 acre park and neighboring mixed use development on about 70 acres of. Historical records indicate that the site was developed as a limestone quarry in the 1850 s as part of a larger area known as the marble cliff quarry that encompassed nearly 2 000 ac. Additionally this new park will provide a critical link in the scioto greenways regional bicycle trail system that will connect downtown columbus to hilliard and on to plain city. The influential kaufman family of the columbus area owned and operated this 2 000 acre 8 1 km 2 plus of property plus other mines and quarries in the united states and canada.

Part of the old quarry across the scioto from south ua.