Canal Winchester considers rezoning for speculative project

A developer is asking Canal Winchester to rezone nearly 70 acres on the north side of Winchester Boulevard to make room for a pair of largescale “spec” buildings that could mean hundreds of new jobs for the city.

Canal Winchester City Council still must approve the request from Gender/ Thirty-three LLC and The Opus Group, a Minneapolisbased commercial real estate and development company, to rezone the area near Kroger from exceptional use to limited manufacturing.

The application involving the speculative project was scheduled for its second of three readings at council’s Dec. 17 meeting.