Time is running out for south campus properties that have not reached an agreement with Campus Partners.Campus Partners, a non-profit redevelopment organization, needs to acquire only a few more properties needed for the Gateway project, the community revitalization project for south campus. The organization has already acquired about 85 percent of the property needed. Formed in 1994, Campus Partners is a joint organization between Ohio State and the city of Columbus created to revitalize and maintain the university district.Later this fall, the organization plans to go to City Hall for permission to use eminent domain to obtain the remaining properties. Eminent domain is when the government takes private property for public use while compensating the owners.”We’ll go to city council with a comprehensive plan that will include a relocation plan for businesses in the area, ask Columbus City Council to recognize that the project will have important public benefits and ask that they approve the city using eminent domain to acquire the rest of the property,” Steve Sterrett, director of community relations for Campus Partners, said.Some public benefits, according to Sterrett, will be the vast improvement in safety of the area, and the creation of 350 to 700 new jobs with the development of the Gateway Center, the finished version of the south campus area.Businesses leaving the area for the University Gateway Center have the option of relocating.”Any business in the Gateway (project) will be entitled to 100 percent compensation of their moving costs to go from one point to another,” Bill Courson, community development director for Campus Partners, said.According to Sterrett, compensation might also include money for advertising to establish these businesses in their new locations.Panini’s is one of the businesses on south campus that is still negotiating with Campus Partners. “Panini’s would like to maintain a presence on south campus,” said Matt Lehman, general manager of Panini’s on 15th Avenue.