The Punch List: Walgreens coming to Canal Winchester, state of the city and more in our

Happy Wednesday, Columbus!

We hope you’ve been enjoying the nice weather so far this week. Here’s the real estate news you might have missed if you’ve been soaking up the sun this week:

• Walgreens will serve as the anchor tenant of Tenby Partners’ 150,000-square foot industrial building in Canal Winchester. The nationwide pharmacy chain will be investing $25 million into the space and will create more than 200 new jobs.
• In his State of the City address yesterday, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said Columbus must meet the demand for housing and work closely with regional partners if the city wants to prosper over the next decade.
• Brad DeHays’ Connect Housing Blocks prefabricated modular apartment manufacturing facility already has its first project lined up. You can see some renderings and models of the apartments here.
• A roughly $1.5 million transformational mixed-use tax credit from the state is going to fill in the last few parts of financing for the redevelopment of the historic Newark Arcade. The developer said the tax credit will keep the project’s debt down, allowing the developer to put more money back into the community.
• Homeport broke ground last week on its $26 million Mulby Place project in Linden. Read about what neighbors and stakeholders had to say about the development here.
• A group that included Skip Weiler, Weiler Co. employee Michael Doss and friends of Doss’ from Canton bought the Short North’s Luxe 23 building in November for $54 million, according to county records. Weiler talked with me last week about why the asset interested the group.
• Atlanta-based MDH Partners has entered the Columbus industrial market. The firm purchased a 100,000-square-foot industrial warehouse at 5740 N. Green Pointe Dr. in Groveport from Columbus-based Oakridge Development Company.
• Another building changed hands last week downtown. Chicago-based Ravinia Capital Group paid $12.8 million for Columbus’ Bicentennial Plaza. The office building, located at 250 Civic Center Dr. downtown, is six stories with about 105,000 rentable square feet. The building is about 75% occupied.
• Intel Corp.’s planned investment of $20 billion to build a pair of semiconductor factories in Central Ohio is already having an impact in Cincinnati. Read more from our friends at the Cincinnati Business Courier on additional companies moving into the Cincinnati Innovation District.

We will bring you this roundup mid-week every week. Think there’s a deal that should be included in The Punch List? Let us know.