I am not sure if to laugh at some of the comments or be insulted. I don't know much about the Rosina, but if I were in the market I would be more concerned about the quality of the construction than the grey building across the street. I actually lived next door to the Rosina for 10 years! In all that time I can count on one hand the incidents I witnessed on this such "horrible and dangerous" block. Both times they involved people who didn't live on the block. I lived there as a single woman who often came home at the wee hours of morning and never, ever had anything happened to me. I actually liked living there because C columbus always had people walking from the PATH as well as traffic. I would have been more afraid walking by myself on the quiet side streets. We moved out a year ago once I got married and needed more room. As much as I like my apartment in the "nicer" area closer to Van Vorst park...I miss the convenience of a 3 minute walk to the PATH. Also in the year we have lived in our new place, I have witnessed a mugging and our building has been vandalized 3 times driving us to the point of installing security cameras and getting an alarm system.
Funny how I never needed that with those "creepy" guys hanging out in front of my old place. Yes, they like to look at women and yes they make the ocassional comment. I will take that over being mugged or having my place vandalized any time. And by the way...in 10 years I was never harrassed by any of those guys....I had to walk to Grove St for that.
Had the Rosina been completed when we were looking, we would have considered buying there....after a careful inspection of the quality of the construction.

As far as the buildings, yes Del Forno owns the grey building as well as the yellow building on the corner of C Columbus and Barrow. They also own the plans to the development that has been approved on that site which includes restoring those two buildings and building a 7 story building where the parking lot is now. The plans have been approved for years.