MSI Design was recently awarded two  Awards by the Ohio Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. At OCASLA’s annual event, MSI won two awards in the Design: Constructed Category.  The Scioto Mile won an Award of Excellence and Nextedge Applied Research and Technology Park won a Merit Award. To look at the full awards booklet click [...]

This week, the Columbus Museum of Art broke ground on the new MSI-designed West Garden. The west garden will serve both as a drop-off point for school buses and group tours, and also as a public greenspace. To learn more, see Columbus Underground and/or CMA’s website.

We are pleased to announce that two MSI projects, both OSU’s Cunz Hall and the Scioto Mile, have been nominated for the Columbus Landmark’s Foundation’s prestigious James B. Recchie Design Award. We are honored to receive such a nomination on the heels of last year’s award, won by the Scott’s Miracle Grow Gardens at the [...]

Tuesday 23 August 2011, Grandview Heights Planning Commission approved the first residential component to be constructed Grandview Yard, being developed by Nationwide Realty Investors. This urban-living addition to the mixed-use development includes 154 units in 3 buildings. The project is located adjacent along the Yard Street, the neighborhoods primary automobile and pedestrian corridor, and Burr [...]

We would like to share our video of the Scioto Mile, which opened in early July of this year. Enjoy!
Film shot and edited by Jon Mancinetti

Over the past few years, MSI has had the honor of shaping the urban landscape in one of Columbus’s most historic neighborhoods. The culturally-rich Near Southside is home to many Columbus treasures, such as Driving Park, Old Oaks, the Eddie Rickenbacher homestead, and Livingston Park.
Livingston Park was not always a park, but initially a graveyard [...]

MSI Founding Principal Keith Myers was quoted in yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch, discussing possible improvements for two important streets in Downtown Columbus. The revitalization of these two thoroughfares were a pivotal factor in the comprehensive 2010 Downtown Columbus Strategic plan, developed by MSI in collaboration with the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation last year.
To flip through an [...]

While many of us here in the eastern U.S. are undoubtedly sick of the cold, snow, and ice, the keen folks at StreetFilms.org have been busy showcasing how left-over snow piles can calm traffic–demonstrating how cars, trucks, and snow plows really drive. In New York the record snow falls have effectively created bump outs at [...]

Once designed as standalone venues, cities across the country are beginning to leverage investment in sports arenas and stadiums to reinvigorate entire urban districts. Integrating sports venues into the urban fabric transforms them from sporadic activity generators into economic redevelopment engines that provide a far more beneficial and wide-ranging economic impact on a daily basis. [...]

Last week, the City of Columbus tested the fountains at Bicentennial Park on the Scioto Mile. The metal halo fountains have fog making capabilities as well as over 1,000 jets for spraying water. MSI founding Principals Keith Myers and Tim Schmalenberger, together with Columbus Downtown Development Corporation and the Department of Recreation and Parks, watched [...]