A vacant lot at the corner of Central Avenue and National Road that used to house a Kroger supermarket has been sold to an Indianapolis-based company that plans to convert the grocery store building into a self storage facility.
On March 2, Tiptonia Partners LLC, located at 6440 Westfield Blvd. in Indianapolis, purchased the property for $3.6 million, nearly five months after the Columbus Board of Zoning Appeals approved the use of the property for a self storage facility, according to city and county records.
In a conditional use application filed with the Columbus Planning Department on Sept. 22, Tiptonia Partners requested permission to “allow the existing structure formerly used as a ‘Kroger’ to be converted to a fully enclosed and self-contained self storage facility.”
Renderings of the proposed storage facility attached to the application show a two-story ExtraSpace Storage facility with a drive-thru entrance on what appears to be on the east side of the former grocery store along Central Avenue.
The application also includes plans to divide the parking lot on the north side of the site into two additional lots that could end up being sold off.
