Brewpub coming to Jeffrey Park in Italian Village

One of Columbus’ busiest restaurant companies and one of the region’s growing craft brewers are teaming up for a new Italian Village brewpub.

A&R Creative Group, the family behind the Clintonville’s Crest Gastropub, is teaming up with Marengo-based Hoof Hearted Brewing Co. for Hoof Hearted Brewery & Kitchen, a sustainable brewpub set to open this summer on Wagenbrenner Development Inc.’s Jeffrey Park project at the corner of North Fourth Street and East First Avenue.

I sat down with the A&R last…

Long-awaited Tri-State park gets $3.5M boost for completion

Hamilton leaders are moving forward with a long-envisioned park along the Great Miami River in the city’s German Village neighborhood thanks to a $3.5 million contribution from the Marcum family via the Hamilton Community Foundation.

The park is part of the larger RiversEdge development that already includes an amphitheater, overlook and an extension of the Great Miami River Trail that is planned to run from New Miami to Fairfield.

These phase one projects were completed in late 2013. Since that…

CenterPoint to build new infrastructure near Houston

Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNP) will build new and expand existing electric transmission infrastructure to power a planned liquefied natural gas export project in Freeport.

Houston-based Freeport LNG Development LP’s nearly $10 billion LNG export project is expected to be up and running in 2018 with all three liquefaction trains operating by the end of the summer of 2019

CenterPoint will build in the 656 megawatts of power to serve the LNG project currently under construction…

FedBid suspension lifted after founder and chairman Ali Saadat resigns

Vienna-based FedBid Inc. can again bid on federal contracts, thanks to a decision by the Air Force to lift a four-week suspension that led to the resignation of founder and Chairman Ali Saadat.

Air Force officials notified FedBiz on Friday that the company is no longer suspended nor facing debarment proceedings after the agency and company signed an administrative agreement. The company was suspended Jan. 26, four months after an inspector general report from the Department of Veterans Affairs called…

McLean tops luxury housing market

A million dollars buys a very nice home, even in the Washington market, but in McLean, that’s barely the price of entry.

Real estate firm Redfin says the average price of the top 5 percent of homes that sold in McLean last quarter was over $3.6 million. The average sales price of the other 95 percent in McLean was just over $1 million.

The District comes in second for luxury real estate, with the average sales price of the top 5 percent of $2.4 million, compared to $528,000 for the other 95 percent.

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