Columbus Neighborhoods
The Forgotten Market Mohawk In Downtown Columbus
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Market Mohawk was demolished in the 1960s, displacing families and erasing historic landmarks.
In the 1960s, Columbus’ Market Mohawk neighborhood was reshaped by urban renewal, demolishing 90% of its buildings and displacing 650 families, most without relocation help. Iconic landmarks like the Central Market were lost, leaving only a few structures like the 1964 Holiday Inn Express to hint at the area’s history.
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Columbus Neighborhoods
The Forgotten Market Mohawk In Downtown Columbus
Special | 1m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
In the 1960s, Columbus’ Market Mohawk neighborhood was reshaped by urban renewal, demolishing 90% of its buildings and displacing 650 families, most without relocation help. Iconic landmarks like the Central Market were lost, leaving only a few structures like the 1964 Holiday Inn Express to hint at the area’s history.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>> So we are looking at an aerial photograph of the Market Mohawk neighborhood in downtown Columbus.
This photo was run in the Columbus Dispatch in June 1966 with a caption that indicated that it looked like World War II Berlin because of its bombed out appearance.
It was undergoing one of several urban renewal projects that were happening across Columbus at the time that involved determining that a number of buildings in the neighborhood were blighted and needed to be demolished to make way for a modern redevelopment.
That involved removing about 90% of the buildings from the start of the Urban Renewal Project, which was about 1959 until its conclusion in 1989.
A lot of major landmarks were lost.
One thing that might help orient people who are looking at it from modern day is the Holiday Inn Express Building, which was built in 1964 and is still operational today.
Across the street from it was one of the casualties.
The Central Market, which was a public market that had about 165 vendors operated.
It had never once it was destroyed there was not a replacement location found for it.
About 650 families were displaced by the Urban Renewal Project, and only about 30% of them ever received relocation help.
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