04/12/2009

The quote in the shape of a cross on the sign on the Worthington Green is from George MacLeod (I had to Google him): "I simply argue that the cross be raised again at the centre of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church." The Village Green in Worthington remains a crossroad of Central Ohio with the intersection of State Route 161 (Dublin Granville Road)  and State Route 23 (High Street) dividing the Village Green. Yearly Central Ohio Christians of many faiths meet at noon on Good Friday at this crossroads.       Details of the 2009 Worthington Community Good Friday Service according to a brochure from the Worthington United Methodist Church: "Good Friday, April 10:  Community Worship Service, at 12:00 Noon - This service begins at  Worthington Presbyterian Church, trav... 04/09/2009

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New Listings Last week there were four new City of Worthington residential listings ranging from $252,900 to $579.900.  Where?  Worthington Estates East, Colonial Hills (that house should be a back on market not a new listing), a house off Worthington Galena Road and a new listing just north of Riverlea. In addition there is a Worthington home that went back on the market, the listing had expired. It was relisted by the same agent...a  condo off Proprieters Road. Contingent and Under Contract Two properties in contract contingent (contingent on finace and inspection) those homes are a Riverlea* home and  a house in Wilson Hill.  Looking for good signs? One of the two new residential listings had been on the market less than a week. One Worthington home went under contract (no contingenc... 04/05/2009

04/04/2009

Worthington History Worthington has more history than most Columbus suburbs or celebrates that history more than other Cental Ohio communities.  The history in the area goes back further than 1803 when settlers from Massachusetts and Connecticut settled the land east of the Olentangy River and named the village "Worthington." Ancient History The City of Worthington's website calls the Jeffers Mound west of the river,  "Worthington's Oldest Manmade Structure." The ancient Indian Earthworks are from the Hopewell culture. The mound was part of larger ancient earthworks.  According to the City of Worthington website: "The earthworks are believed to have been built by the Hopewell people between 100 BC and AD 400, although archeologists have found signs of human habitation at this site dati... 04/02/2009

    The Colonial Hills neighborhood is on the south end of Worthington, east of High Street.  The east end of the neighborhood is bound by the rail road tracks. It's a short walk, bike ride or drive to shop in downtown Worthington or the Graceland Shopping Center.   Worthington Parks in the area include Park Boulevard Park, Indianola Park and Selby Park, right in the Colonial Hills neighborhood.   Indianola Park - 5500 Indianola Avenue  3.2 Acres Selby Park - 358 Selby Boulevard South 4.1 Acres Park Blvd (formerly known as Devil's Hill Park) - 125 Park Boulevard  6.1 Acres    Schools Public and Private Colonial Hills Elementary School - 5800 Greenwich Street St. Michael's Catholic Elementary School - 5800 Greenwich Street   Home Sales   YTD 2009 sold price range  $139,900  to $220,000 2... 04/01/2009

There is a W.O.O.F. meeting at the Old Library today....March 30, 2009 at 7 to 8:30 PM*. W.O.O.F. is Worthington Organized Off-Leash Friends... this is W.O.O.F's first meeting about the status of an off-leash park project in Worthington. W.O.O.F. has more info on the Sustainable Worthington website. This morning I was looking for something I wrote about Walkable Worthington on one of my blogs a year or so ago...  sadly sometimes it is faster for me to leave the blogs and search the whole web to find my stuff... and I found W.O.O.F.  and the whole Sustainable Worthington Website... The Sustainable Worthington site is interesting. Walking, biking, buses,  gardening, rain, the Olde Worthington Farmers Market.... and more. The dog (mine) is used for illustration only. He's not off-leash ma... 03/30/2009

The News. Now. I sorta wanted to do something like: This Week in Worthington  Doesn't that sound catchy?  ...of course that is the name of the newspaper... isn't it?  What's Happening in Real Estate in Worthington? No, that sounds too 1970's... The News about Worthington real estate? How about Last Week in Worthington? Looking in the rear view mirror at the week in real estate or the data that was reported... anyway. Worthington This is about homes in the City of Worthington (and the Village of Riverlea because Riverlea is lumped into the MLS area (the Columbus Board of Realtors multiple listing service.) Residential properties, single family homes and condominiums. Sold There was a "Sold" in  Colonial Hills... another sold  home shows up as sold in the Columbus Board of Realtor's  Mult... 03/30/2009

03/24/2009

  The Ohio Historical Marker for St. John's Church in Worthington just east of the Village Green describes the historic church as "Saint John's Church of  Worthington and Parts Adjacent."   Of course in 1803  "Parts Adjacent"  to the Village of Worthington would have been even closer in than the "Parts Adjacent"  to the City of Worthington now.    I may start referring to the Worthington area as "Parts Adjacent." The Village of Worthington streched from Morning to Evening Streets and from North Street to South Street. What areas are Worthington area or "parts adjacent" today? Neighborhoods in the City of Columbus which are in the Worthington School District, their mailing address may or may not be the 43085 ZIP code.  Neighborhoods in Sharon Township that are in the Worthington School D... 03/23/2009

When Dawn in Hudson Ohio (NE Ohio) wrote of her "Urgent! Your Input Needed!":  "I have a lovely family that needs to move into a larger home.They would like a property where they can raise chickens!   I thought the problem was the chickens. I remember seeing chickens on a street corner on the west side of Columbus a couple of years ago. I have chickens on the brain. There was a chicken incident in a Worthington Ohio neighborhood recently.   I am just barely aware of the chicken incident.  A Worthington resident has pet chickens?  A neighbor's dog attacked a pet chicken?  There is a sentence in a recent article in the Worthington version of ThisWeek Worthington, it is at the end of an important article about the rezoning of the Kilbourne Building on the Village Green in Worthington. The ... 03/22/2009

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Green like lush green... Not like green like ecological.  The warm summer weather in the next eight to ten weeks will change the brown grass we have now into lush green grass... and the trees will sprout leaves... magically. The 2007 Worthington Memorial Day Parade.  This slideshow is actually in Riverlea on High Street not in Worthington... or is the street still Worthington? Thinking about it we were on the front lawn in Riverlea and the parade was in Worthington?   Music alert. Turn the music down on the far right button on the bottom of the slideshow if necessary. It is hard to believe how green it will be in a few months. Someone was looking at this video today... and I am recycling it.     The 2009 Worthington Memorial Day Parade will be on Memorial Day. I can't wait.     More ab... 03/20/2009

The Worthington City Council approved new zoning for the Kilbourne Building. The Kilbourne Building is the building facing the northeast quadrant of the Village Green.  The Kilbourne Building  is the building with the star.  The image is from the Franklin County Auditors site. According to the article in the ThisWeek Community Newspapers Worthington edition the building is also known as the 752 Building.  I think of it as the old administrative office for the Worthington City Schools.  I had a client who worked there years ago pre email?  Pre everything being online anyway, so I used to drop things off there to her. The This Week Worthington article by staff writer Candy Brooks says the building has been vacant for 7 years.  I was thinking the administrative offices had moved to E. Wils... 03/20/2009

This is one of the best foreclosure deals I've seen all year.  This house is for sale in one of the most popular areas in Worthington(downtown).  There will be at least 10 bids on this House.  The bids end at the end of the week. Contact me for more information about this foreclosure house or to see the home in worthington.   Marc A. Van Steyn RE/MAX Premier Choie 614-410-0901 03/10/2009

    By wee folk I am not talking children. It's beginning to look a lot like St. Patrick's Day in Central Ohio. Some communities more than others.  The Dublin Ohio St. Patrick's Day celebrations are on Saturday March 14,2009. If Irish is an attitude, Dublin does it well Columbus - downtown  Celebrating St. Patrick's Day in Central Ohio  The traditional Columbus celebrations including the St. Patrick's Day Parade and the Irish Family Reunion are on St. Patrick's Day, Tuesday March 17, 2009, of course. Worthington Wee Folk have their own door in Old Worthington. The Leprechaun Entrance shown here is right next to the door for the rest of us at  PK O'Ryans Irish Pub in Worthington    The Leprechaun entrance is at the Irish Pub in Worthington year round.   Compliments of Maureen McCabe - Re... 03/09/2009

The Crosswoods area in Columbus is just north of 270 in the Worthington area.  Last Sunday I tweeted (texted from my phone to Twitter): The Quizno's at Crosswoods is gone.. Closed.. 4:23 PM Mar 1st from mobile web Two people from Columbus responded: OHTom@MoInColumbusOH Lots of empty restaurants at Crosswoods these days!4:57 PM Mar 1st from web in reply to MoInColumbusOH  solesearching@MoInColumbusOH I'm surprised that Quiznos lasted as long as it did. That whole area is dying a slow painful death... 5:51 PM Mar 1st from Tweetie in reply to MoInColumbusOH Is Crosswoods dying?  hmmm  I know restaurants open and close there with great regularity... but that's been going on or years.  Who knows maybe the Quiznos has been gone since last summer... I drive by sometimes...  but not always.  I... 03/05/2009

Coming soon Or coming back? Chutnys, an Indian restautant in the Crosswoods area of Columbus opened and closed very quickly. I think.   I swear I read in one of the papers that Chutnys opened.  As I recall it said the restaurant was able to come right in because the previous Indian Restaurant in that location, the equipment was still there.   I can not find the article though.  Searching I just find a lot of recipes for different chutnys. The Crosswoods area in Columbus is north of the city of Worthington and south of Polaris.   It's just north of 270... Crosswoods is all hotels and restaurants and a movie theater..  and a lot of  empty space... kind of a tough area to compete, it seems. A sign in the window says Chutnys is coming soon and will have new management.    The signs at the ... 03/05/2009

Would you paint your brick fireplace?  Rachel Backus a  home stager in Hudson Ohio recommended painting oak cabinets from the 1970's, 1980's  speaking to the real estate community and other stagers Rachael asked WOOD you tell a homeowner to paint the cabinets? "WOOD you tell a homeowner  to paint brick?"  or  "Wood you tell a homeowner to paint the fireplace?   just doesn't have the same ring to it as Rachel's title, does it? Have you ever painted brick?  Were you happy with the results? This is painted brick... Too bad I don't have a before photo.  This is the brick on fireplace in a Bob Webb patio home at the Sanctuary in the Worthington area. The patio homes are from the late 1980's so it is not like they are ancient.  Or that Bobb Webb built houses with ugly fireplaces. This particu... 02/23/2009