Gahanna Council to Review Strategic Plan for Creekside Improvements
A proposed resolution endorses development priorities for Creekside District facade improvements, signage upgrades and the city land bank.
Under a proposed resolution, Gahanna City Council would endorse the vision and strategic direction of the Community Improvement Corporation of Gahanna Strategic Plan. The resolution is scheduled for Committee of the Whole review. The strategic plan is designed to serve as a guide for the organization over the next three to five years.
The pedestrian plaza at Creekside Gahanna paved in red brick, showing stone monuments and mixed-use commercial buildings.
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The strategic plan focuses on five action areas: stable governance, financial resilience, business assistance, real estate development, and economic development innovation. The measure affirms that the plan advances common goals in the Our Gahanna Strategic Plan and Economic Development Strategy adopted on Nov. 3, 2025.
A central focus of the roadmap involves commercial investment in the Creekside District. The strategic plan targets commercial revitalization through a proposed Creekside District Improvement Program designed to leverage funding to improve facades, upgrade signage, and provide necessary infrastructure. The strategic plan also emphasizes attracting and supporting businesses that reflect community interests and market demand. In addition, the strategic plan supports efforts to advance redevelopment of strategic areas and nurture new and emerging economic sectors.
The corporation also serves as the city's economic development agent and acts as the sole agent responsible for implementing the Gahanna Land Bank Program. Gahanna City Council redesignated the organization under Ohio law in May 2008 for industrial, economic, civic, commercial, distribution, and research development.
Gahanna City Council members were invited to attend a joint meeting on Oct. 29 at the Gahanna Municipal Golf Course to receive an update on corporation activities and a presentation on the strategic plan. Previously, on Nov. 2, Pique reported that Gahanna hired a construction manager for the Creekside Flood Mitigation Project.
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Under a proposed resolution, Gahanna City Council would endorse the vision and strategic direction of the Community Improvement Corporation of Gahanna Strategic Plan.
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GAHANNA, COUNTY OF FRANKLIN, STATE OF OHIO, THAT: Section 1. Council hereby endorses the vision and strategic direction of the Community Improvement Corporation of Gahanna Strategic Plan
The resolution is scheduled for Committee of the Whole review.
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The strategic plan is designed to serve as a guide for the organization over the next three to five years.
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pursuant to a recommendation in the Economic Development Strategy, the CIC’s Board of Directors completed the Community Improvement Corporation of Gahanna Strategic Plan in July 2026 to serve as a guide for the organization for the next three to five year
The strategic plan focuses on five action areas: stable governance, financial resilience, business assistance, real estate development, and economic development innovation.
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Section 1. Council hereby endorses the vision and strategic direction of the Community Improvement Corporation of Gahanna Strategic Plan, including its mission, vision, and guiding principles, and expresses its support for the Strategic Plan's five action areas of: stable governance, financial resilience, business assistance, real estate development, and economic development innovation.
The measure affirms that the plan advances common goals in the Our Gahanna Strategic Plan and Economic Development Strategy adopted on Nov. 3, 2025.
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Section 3. Council affirms that the Community Improvement Corporation of Gahanna Strategic Plan advances the common goals in the Our Gahanna Strategic Plan and Economic Development Strategy adopted on November 3, 2025 through RES-0046-2025.
The strategic plan targets commercial revitalization through a proposed Creekside District Improvement Program designed to leverage funding to improve facades, upgrade signage, and provide necessary infrastructure.
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developing a Creekside District Improvement Program to leverage funding to improve facades, upgrade signage, and provide necessary infrastructure; and
The strategic plan also emphasizes attracting and supporting businesses that reflect community interests and market demand.
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WHEREAS, the Strategic Plan advances Our Gahanna Goal 1, Elevate our Unique Places, and its objective 1.A, "Advance the Creekside District as a vibrant area," including objective 1.A.2, attracting and supporting businesses that reflect community interests and market demand
In addition, the strategic plan supports efforts to advance redevelopment of strategic areas and nurture new and emerging economic sectors.
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WHEREAS, the Strategic Plan also supports the Economic Development Strategy goals to strengthen existing industry sectors, including advancing development and redevelopment of strategic areas (ED A), and to nurture new and emerging economic sectors; and
The corporation also serves as the city's economic development agent and acts as the sole agent responsible for implementing the Gahanna Land Bank Program.
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WHEREAS, the CIC serves as the City's economic development agent, including as the sole agent responsible for implementing the Gahanna Land Bank Program, and works cooperatively with the City through a service agreement to accomplish the City's economic development goals and objectives; and
Gahanna City Council redesignated the organization under Ohio law in May 2008 for industrial, economic, civic, commercial, distribution, and research development.
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WHEREAS, the Community Improvement Corporation of Gahanna (the "CIC") is a nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 1724 of the Ohio Revised Code, and City Council adopted Ordinance 0112-2008 on May 19, 2008, redesignating and authorizing the establishment of the CIC for the purpose of industrial, economic, civic, commercial, distribution, and research development in the City of Gahanna; and
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Gahanna City Council members were invited to attend a joint meeting on Oct. 29 at the Gahanna Municipal Golf Course to receive an update on corporation activities and a presentation on the strategic plan.
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Notice is hereby given that members of the Gahanna City Council have been invited to attend a meeting of the Community Improvement Corporation of Gahanna (CIC) on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 7:30 AM at the Gahanna Municipal Golf Course (220 Olde Ridenour Road, Gahanna, OH 43230). The purpose of the meeting is to provide City Council with a general update on CIC activities, including a presentation on the CIC's Strategic Plan.
Gahanna Hires Construction Manager for Creekside Flood Mitigation Project
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Previously, on Nov. 2, Pique reported that Gahanna hired a construction manager for the Creekside Flood Mitigation Project.
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Gahanna Hires Construction Manager for Creekside Flood Mitigation Project