Things are starting to take shape down at Bicentennial Park, literally speaking. It’s beginning to look a little like a Greek ruins with giant naked columns looming on the landscape.

Reaching toward the sky, these columns are the beginning of the Bicentennial Park Bandshell and Cafe

The Scioto Mile project has entered a new dimension, literally speaking. It started as a flat, two-dimensional idea on paper. Then came the three-dimensional architectural computer models. Fueled by the hard work of a construction team, the Scioto Mile’s structures are now really-real, with real physical properties. It’s something you can touch and feel, if you could get past all of the orange fencing.

We’ve been pining to see our riverfront come to life, this scene feels like something from a fairy tale where creatures jump from the pages of a book.

In real life these structures do have some pretty otherworldly characteristics.  Uncommonly strong, the café columns are designed to support a poured concrete roof, with beautiful curves and lines. And that roof itself will have features you won’t find in just any regular ol’ conventional rooftop –it will be home to solar panels that will help power the Bicentennial Park fountain, and the café.

And are the structures magical too? We think so. Wait ‘til you see the magic they bring to the Downtown scene . . .

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