Our Work
The Plank Law Firm is highly regarded as the firm of choice for the protection and preservation of your constitutional property rights.
Arrowleaf Apartments
Multi-Family Housing / Affordable Housing
We represented Arrowleaf Apartments L.P. relative to obtaining final development plan approval and area variances for the construction of a small, 28-unit multi-family workforce housing development in the City of Grove City.
Beulah Park Development
Residential
This firm was responsible for obtaining the re-zoning and land use entitlements for the planned community of Beulah Park (former Beulah horse race track property in Grove City, Ohio) as a large scale mixed-use planned community involving residential uses (multi-family, single family, condominium), parkland, institutional (school and assisted living), and commercial (office and retail), representing Falco, Smith & Kelley, LTD, and Donald W. Kelley Associates, Inc.
Cactus Hollow
Inverse Condemnation
Plank Law Firm brought a mandamus complaint against the City of Delaware, Ohio on behalf of the firm’s clients asking the Delaware County Common Pleas Court to order the City of Delaware to commence appropriation proceedings to compensate the clients for damage caused by methane gas that had migrated onto their property from a City landfill located on City property. Plank Law Firm’s clients prevailed in the mandamus action and the Court ordered the City of Delaware to file a petition for the appropriation of property in accordance with Ohio Revised Code Sections 163.01 et seq. By the judgment of the Court in the appropriation case, the firm’s clients were awarded compensation for the damage to their property and attorneys’ fees.
Concord Fabricators, Inc.
Industrial
This firm obtained the land use approvals (development plan and variances for building expansion and/or storage lot expansion and/or warehouse development) for Concord Fabricators, Inc., a steel fabricator, in Grove City.
Farm at Indian Run
Residential, Single Family Development
This firm obtained the re-zoning and preliminary development plan approvals for a luxury, estate 40-lot single family planned residential district (subdivision) in Jerome Township.
Golden Bear at Riverside
Mixed Use
Our firm is working on the redevelopment of the Golden Bear Shopping Center in Upper Arlington involving a mixed use development consisting of one five-story building containing 22,379 square feet of ground floor commercial space (office, retail, and restaurant uses), and four floors containing 102 luxury condominiums. The redevelopment will also include 90 surface parking spaces and structured parking with 176 parking spaces. The estimated value of the redevelopment upon completion is over $72,000,000.
Grove City Indus Hotels
Hotel
This firm represented the developer in connection with obtaining land use approvals for a new hotel and signage in the City of Grove City, Ohio.
Homestead Village Senior Living
Multi-Family Housing / Affordable Housing
This firm represented the developer of a senior, independent living apartment facility at the intersection of Hoover Road and Orders Road in the City of Grove City. The market rate, active senior, apartment development consists of 130 residential dwelling units (one- and two-bedroom units) contained in a single, three-story, building with elevator service and a well- appointed community town square.
Kenmore — Commercial Point Industrial Park
Land
This firm represents Kenmore Construction Co. Inc./K-Nova LLC in obtaining all land use entitlements and development plan approvals for over 1,200 acres in Commercial Point, Pickaway County, Ohio, for warehouse/industrial uses.
Kirk Williams Company
Industrial
This firm obtained the land use approvals (development plan, special use permit, and variances for storage lot expansion) for the Kirk Williams Co., a sheet metal, piping, and plumbing fabricator and mechanical contractor in Grove City.
Lehmann Farms - VanTrust
Industrial
This firm negotiated the terms of a pre-annexation agreement for the annexation of 1,200 acres to the Village of Commercial Point; annexed the property into the Village of Commercial Point; obtained tax abatements for the property; and re-zoned the property for use as warehouse development for the end user, VanTrust, an industrial warehouse developer.
Nationwide Arena
Eminent Domain
In addition to representing property owners, the Plank Law Firm represents condemning authorities. As an example, Don Plank represented the Franklin County Convention Authority in the acquisition of land for the Nationwide Arena.
Pinnacle Golf Club
Residential
This firm was responsible for obtaining the re-zoning and land use entitlements for the planned community of Pinnacle Golf Club golf-course and residential community in Grove City, representing the developer, Joseph Ciminello.
Polaris Parkway Re-zoning
Land
This firm assisted in the annexation of over 1,100 acres of Polaris area properties from Orange Township, Delaware County, into the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, and was responsible for obtaining the re-zoning approvals (in Orange Township) and the re-zoning approvals and all land use entitlements (in the City of Columbus), to allow for the development of the premier Polaris Fashion Place shopping mall, retail shopping centers, and other office, retail, hotel, and residential mixed-use development along the northern corridor of Columbus at the I-270/I-71/Polaris Parkway and Gemini Place interchanges, representing N.P. Limited Partnership, The Robert Weiler Company, Falco, Smith & Kelley, LTD, and Donald W. Kelley Associates, Inc.
Tompkins Studios
Mixed Use
This firm represented a developer to secure the land use entitlements in the University District along High Street relative to a large scale, multi-story mixed-use project for retail, office, and multi-family residential uses.
United Dairy Farmers
Retail
This firm represents United Dairy Farmers, Inc., and has for over thirty (30) years, in obtaining re-zonings, conditional uses, variances, and development plan approvals for new United Dairy Farmers convenience stores with gasoline sales throughout central Ohio and Delaware County. This firm also represents United Dairy Farmers, Inc.’s on any condemnation matters brought by, or threatened by, governmental entities using the power of eminent domain throughout Ohio.
