If Columbus residents ever forget Michael B. Coleman's accomplishments, a Downtown edifice will at least remind them that he once was their mayor. The eight-story, 196,000-square-foot office building going up at 111 N. Front St. will be called the Michael B. Coleman Governmental Center, the city announced Tuesday.

If Columbus residents ever forget Michael B. Coleman's accomplishments, a Downtown edifice will at least remind them that he once was their mayor.

The eight-story, 196,000-square-foot office building going up at 111 N. Front St. will be called the Michael B. Coleman Governmental Center, the city announced Tuesday. The building is scheduled for completion in December 2017 and a neighboring seven-story parking garage will be finished in January 2018.

�Mayor Coleman�s contributions to the city cannot be quantified. The city was transformed during his 16 years of service,� Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said. Ginther succeeded Coleman who left office in January after 16 years.

Previous Columbus mayors have been memorialized as well, to varying degrees.

The Gregory S. Lashutka Event Center was a crumbling, 200-year-old dam keeper's house and stone amphitheater at Griggs Reservoir on the Scioto River before it was transformed into a setting for weddings, concerts and other events. Lashutka was mayor from 1992 to 2000.

The Dana G. "Buck" Rinehart Public Utilities Complex on Dublin Road west of Downtown is distinguished by the big blue water tank and treatment plant. Rinehart served from 1984 to 1992.

Tom Moody, mayor from 1972 to 1983, shared honors with Bill Hall, former Ohio State University vice president of student affairs, when their names were associated with the Neighborhood Policing Center at 248 E. 11th Ave. near the university.

Moody edged out the incumbent, Maynard E. "Jack" Sensenbrenner, who had been mayor for 12 years, from 1954 to 1959 and from 1964 to 1971.

Sensenbrenner has a park in his name at N. High Street and Nationwide Boulevard. No building was named for the mayor who spearheaded the annexation-for-water police that saved Columbus from encirclement by suburbs.

Then there's the 51-acre Rhodes Park on W. Broad Street at I-70, a city park named for James A. Rhodes when he was mayor of Columbus from 1944 to 1952. The Rhodes Tower, the tallest building in Columbus, honors Rhodes' years as governor.

The Coleman center will house offices for the public service, development and utilities departments.