COLUMBUS, Ohio — The old Spaghetti Warehouse building will officially be torn down.
The Downtown Commission approved the demolition for the building located at 397 West Broad St. which has stood for more than a century.
The building experienced a partial roof collapse in 2022. While a Certification of Appropriateness was issued to repair the roof, the owner of the building received unsafe building notices from the city in March 2022 and February 2024.
Spaghetti Warehouse reopened in November 2023 at a new location at the Columbus Commons.
The owners of the Spaghetti Warehouse building said they would prefer to save and restore the building, but they say safety is the reason why the building has to be demolished.
There's no set date for demolition as the owners need to meet conditions before the building comes down.
The area will be a parking lot in the short term, but the building owners need to provide a site plan for the lot and a site plan for how it will be maintained if nothing goes there temporarily.
There are plans to construct two buildings that will have more than 230 apartment units, 30% of which will be affordable. Parking will be underneath.
In addition, the building owners must provide a Historic American Buildings Survey to city staff.
When all of these conditions are met, the building can be torn down.