The developer that turned Dublin’s Bridge Park into a regional hotspot now has its sights set on Worthington. Crawford Hoying is proposing to transform more than 17 acres along West Wilson Bridge Road into a walkable, mixed-use neighborhood, swapping out the aging Officescape Corporate Center for new housing, offices, shops, public spaces, and a 290-room hotel. The rezoning request is scheduled to land in front of the Worthington Municipal Planning Commission tomorrow.
What’s proposed
The early site plan reads like a full neighborhood in one package: about 250 multifamily apartments, 182 condominiums, eight townhomes, 150 senior living residences, and a 290-room hotel, paired with roughly 211,000 square feet of office space and more than 134,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.
Instead of the current superblock, the concept breaks the property into smaller, walkable parcels organized around an east-west main street and new public gathering spaces, with an eye toward better connections to the nearby Olentangy Trail. The project would roll out in phases over several years, according to Columbus Navigator.
City filing and rezoning
City records show Crawford Hoying is seeking to rezone roughly 17.6 acres from the C-3 Institutions & Office district to a Planned Unit Development. That shift would clear the way for the blend of housing, commercial uses, and a new internal street grid that the proposal depends on.
All three existing office buildings on the Officescape campus would come down so the site can be rebuilt in three phases, set up for shared access, structured parking, and stronger pedestrian connections. The concept master plan on file with the City of Worthington sketches out where buildings could go and how open space and public plazas would be prioritized.
Timeline and public feedback
At a developer-hosted meeting in April, Crawford Hoying and architecture firm Gensler walked residents through early renderings and a best-case timeline: rezoning approval by November, detailed design work and tenant moves in 2027, and construction starting as soon as 2028.
Neighbors did not hold back. Questions and concerns centered on building heights, light spillover, pool noise, and how much more traffic West Wilson Bridge Road can realistically handle. Project leaders responded with talk of landscape buffers, lighting controls, and ongoing traffic studies, and said they expect to work with the city on possible corridor improvements. “This is the first of several meetings that we’ll have with the community,” Russell Hunter told attendees, according to Worthington Pulse.
Money, parking and precedent
Crawford Hoying is not shy about using public-private tools on complex sites, and points to its experience at Bridge Park, where the city helped reimburse parking and roadwork costs. The company has indicated that Tax Increment Financing will likely be needed again here to help pay for parking garages, new streets, and other public improvements.
Critics, meanwhile, are already asking whether the Wilson Bridge corridor can absorb more traffic and thousands of new parking spaces without grinding to a halt. For more on how the developer has handled big mixed-use projects and civic partnerships elsewhere, see Crawford Hoying.
What happens next
The Worthington Municipal Planning Commission is set to take its first formal look at the rezoning proposal tomorrow, June 25, with public comment to follow as additional hearings are scheduled. Residents who want to track the project can sign up for updates through the city, review posted materials, and show up at the hearings to weigh in before any recommendation moves on to the City Council.
As the plan works its way through the review process, traffic modeling, fiscal impact reports, and detailed design changes will all play into whether Worthington ultimately signs off on a Bridge Park-style district along West Wilson Bridge Road. According to the City of Worthington, key documents and contact links are available on the project’s online page.
