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The City of Upper Arlington is constantly looking for ways to modernize housing stock and help families in the community live richer, healthier lives. We regularly review City regulations to ensure that we are encouraging modern housing options. In recent years, we have modified our housing standards to allow for home offices above detached garages, and in 2022 we changed the zoning in one of our office districts to allow for mixed use redevelopment that includes housing. We are regularly looking at ways to make our community safer and more enjoyable for our children. We have even tried to find ways to make our community more dog friendly with more sidewalks and connections to the new dog park at Quarry Trails Metro Park.

The City of Upper Arlington recently found that we have neglected one important part of our families: our cats. To combat these challenges for our feline family members, the City of Upper Arlington is actively encouraging residents to build Catios. Catios are outdoor enclosures designed to give cats safe access to the outdoors, typically through an open door or window.

As a proud “Cat Dad” of 3 feline family members, City Manager Steve Schoeny is proposing two new initiatives. First, he has directed the City’s Chief Building Official, Roger Eastep, to implement a new plan review service called “Purrmit UA” that will review Catio plans to ensure their structural integrity and compliance with the City’s neighborhood compatibility standards. In addition to ensuring that all catios in UA are structurally sound, Eastep will ensure that jumping heights are within standard, sleeping surfaces are plush and cats can sit up high enough to reinforce the feelings of superiority that they have to their other family members.

Second, for families that want a distinctively UA Catio, we have worked with the architecture firms of MSA Sport and Perkins&Will to develop plans so that you can build your own scale version of the Bob Crane Community Center for your cats.

Plans for the BobCat Community Center will be available through the end of the day April 1, 2024, free of charge at the Upper Arlington Municipal Services Center.

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Wishing you the best this coming year. Happy Holidays!

Over the past five years, MSA Sport has partnered with the Houston Astros Organization on Minute Maid Park improvement projects focused on enhancing the fan experience. Marcel Braithwaite provided the unpresuming leadership necessary to complete these projects within compressed schedules and complicated work environments. Marcel’s knowledge and drive to excellence provides the leadership necessary to produce the best from his team. He is an extraordinary leader that has been and will continue to be an example to all of us at MSA!


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Marcel Braithwaite Has Home Field Advantage - American Builders Quarterly Marcel Braithwaite brings passion, motivation, and innovation to the Houston Astros as its SVP of business operations

Newly completed Walter Hodges Stadium, home of the Granville Blue Aces, is a premier multi-sport venue for this High-Performing School District, east of Columbus and adjacent to the Denison University Campus.

Design team led by MSA Sport.

The newly designed Boone County Bourbon Press Club for the Cincinnati Reds found a home in the space once occupied by the writing press in Great American Ballpark. Ticket holders enter the space through a bourbon barrel tunnel that transports the guests into a club which harkens back to the past. The new club reaches back into history to draw on the influences of Art Deco / Mid Century design in the Cincinnati area, as well as the rich history of both the writing press and the regions bourbon makers. Brass tones, walnut wood, leather, terrazzo tile, and handcrafted chevron tile fill this space with a sense of nostalgia and subtle sophistication.

The Miami Marlins Park Renovation includes removal of the existing home run feature in Center Field, and construction of a multi-level two-tiered group area with additional bar capacity for the premium group areas.
The results of the renovation included the expansion of the Concourse area in front of the Budweiser bar to ease congestion and improve flow, as well as the Diamond Club receiving updates with high-end finishes and amenities, to provide better access from the club to the seating bowl with a new tunnel for fans and staff. The design of the new centerfield area and Diamond Club takes areas of the ballpark that were underutilized and capitalizes on the spaces in fan efficiencies and experience. These projects also allowed new Ownership to demonstrate their dedication to the team and commitment to the fans.

MSA Sport, a division of MSA Design has been working with the Galion Port Authority as Criteria Architect and Sports Design Consultant for the new Freese Center for Sports and Recreation, to be located near the US 30 & Ohio State Route 598 interchange in the City of Galion, Ohio. This new state-of-the-art Sports Venue will be a regional Midwestern destination in North Central Ohio for competition, recreation, and community events.

We are pleased to announce that the Galion Port Authority is releasing a Request for Qualifications/Proposals from interested Design/Build teams for the project. To receive a copy of the RFQ/RFP, Design Criteria, and Geotechnical Report for the Freese Center contact Eric Kent – President, Galion Port Authority via email at [email protected]

The Center for Sport Sciences is a new comprehensive indoor athletic training facility on the campus of Wilmington College.

The center is constructed just east of the exiting football and track stadium, directly adjacent to a natural turf field and acts as an extension of and compliment to the existing campus athletic amenities. The facility serves as the primary home for the Wilmington College Athletic Training program offering a hydro training area, recruitment room, classroom space, administrative offices and a 15,000SF indoor synthetic turf field. In addition, the center offers professional services including physical therapy, orthopedic, and imaging.

MSA Sport worked with Marysville City Schools on a dual-campus athletic master plan to upgrade both their High School and Middle School outdoor venues, which includes the creation of Impact Stadium at Marysville High School.

The new Monarch Stadium on the campus of Marysville High School features a capacity of 5,000 and has a unique “Northern Wall” grandstand hosting the student section and marching band. Enlarged circulation concourses, new northwest gateway, memorial plaza, expanded video board, kids play area, and expanded restrooms and concessions provide a first-class stadium experience for fans and visitors. The reconfiguration of the Track to become a separate, adjacent venue allows for the main stadium seating to be “compressed” onto the edge of the synthetic turf field for an intimidating “home field advantage” for the Monarchs. The Track & Field Stadium is designed to efficiently manage meet operations and to serve as a regional center for Track & Field competition.

The design of the FC Cincinnati Mercy Health Training Center is inspired by the mission and values of FC Cincinnati and reflects a progressive, environmentally sustainable, modern aesthetic reflective of the rise of the sport of soccer in America.

In the planning process the design team benchmarked training grounds across the world, including the best in Europe, South America and Asia. The goal of the design and the Club is to develop one of the premier and most progressive team facilities in Major League Soccer and North America.

MSA Sport worked with Marysville City Schools on a dual-campus athletic master plan to upgrade both their High School and Middle School outdoor venues, which includes the creation of Drive Stadium at Bunsold Middle School.

This large, growing school district outside of Columbus, Ohio was looking to develop a true multi-use outdoor community venue to host a variety of activities including football, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, track & field, physical education, and marching band competitions.

Introducing our next guest on the Building Ideas Podcast, April Berg, Co-Founder of The Aruna Project . She was a collegiate athlete and passionate about running and fitness. April walked away from a career as a nurse in internal medicine to serve communities in China and India. Her time serving women in the brothels of India instilled a passion to relieve injustice for oppressed women in the world. This passion and her love of fitness served as catalyst to the creation of Aruna, an Athleisure lifestyle brand creating functional luxury bags and accessories handcrafted by women freed, empowered, and employed.

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Grandview Heights is a thriving, walkable community adjacent to downtown Columbus. MSA Sport worked with the Parks and Recreation Department to gather input from the community and to create a new aquatic facility including an updated and accessible leisure pool and improved space for competitive swimming. The project also includes modernized support spaces for concessions, restroom and shower facilities, and maintainable filtration and sanitization systems.

Sound and Major League Baseball are inseparable.

Enjoy these coloring pages inspired by our work!

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Dear Sports, We miss you.
View our latest blog: https://www.msaarch.com/design-thinking/dear-sports

Essential Personnel Childcare Available at the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati.
Children will participate in a variety of activities including homework help, physical fitness and enrichment so you are able to assist our community at this critical time with peace of mind.
Available from 6am-6pm.

For more information visit: https://myy.org/essential-personnel-child-care/

To make a donation: https://cincinnatiymca.networkforgood.com/projects/95500-ymca-covid-19-childcare-response-fund

Opening Day may have been postponed, but that hasn’t changed our love for the game.
The MSA Family invites you to join us in celebrating

Follow the link down below to watch the 2019 opener!



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Walter Hodges Stadium, home of the Granville Blue Aces, is set to be a premier multi-sport venue for this High-Performing School District, east of Columbus and adjacent to the Denison University Campus

Completion for Fall 2020.

Design team led by MSA Sport