Worthington real estate

A Columbus Dispatch article today says "Worthington Mall to be Sold"

The Dispatch article written by Marla Matzer Rose says there is a buyer for the local mall and it is a local person.  The Columbus Dispatch says:

"Local developer Tom Carter and Morris Capital Partners of Texas announced a plan yesterday to buy the mall."

It sounds like the mall originally built in 1974 is going to be opened up...  it was enclosed at some point.

Carter is quoted about the past...

"bad decisions by previous owners" contributed to the center's woes"

The slide show below was a few years ago... Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works were still at Worthington Mall at that point.  Godfry's left, went to Polaris, Acorn is gone.

Wilson Bridge Road Walking Tour Saturday


W. Wilson Bridge Road - Worthington history

Worthington City Schools are  "Excellent" according to the Ohio Department of Education

School report cards are out and Worthington City Schools earned an Excellent for the 2009 2010 school year. Worthington schools got a Excellent with Distinction for the 2008 2009 school year.  

Worthington City Schools are "Excellent" - report card 2009 - 2010 school year

"Number of State Indicators Met out of 26"  "26"

Is "Excellent" an A? and "Excellent with Distinction" an A+?  The six designations for schools in Ohio:

• Excellent with Distinction
• Excellent
• Effective
• Continuous Improvement
• Academic Watch
• Academic Emergency

Friday the State of Ohio published the actual report cards which gave a lot more information about the school districts.  Also you can  look at grades for individual school buildings.  You can see how Thomas Worthington did in comparison to Worthington Kilbourne, the two Worthington high schools.   You will be able to see how Bluffsview, Wilson Hill, Worthington Park or Evening Street Elementary School did in comparison to other Worthington elementary schools.

More about Worthington City Schools

Worthington City Schools  2008 - 2009  repoprt card

Bluffsview Elementary School  2009 - 2010 school year

Worthington Schools history

Open Sunday 1344 Snowmass Rd, Columbus OH 43235

Open House -   Sunday,  August 30, 2010,  2 to 4 at this Worthingview home.

1344 Snowmass Road Columbus Ohio 43235 

• 4 bedrooms
• 2 1/ 2 bath
• screened porch
• fenced yard
  
• Fireplace with gas logs
• basement
• 2 car garage

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale - a market report

Worthingview nieghborhood school information:

Elementary - Bluffsview

Middle -  McCord

High School -  Worthington Kilbourne

The Worthingview neighborhood and the home at 1344 Snowmass Rd. Columbus OH 43235 are in the Worthington City School District.  School report cards are out and Bluffsiew Elementary School got the highest grade possible, Excellent with Disctinction.  McCord Middle School received an "Excellent" grade. This home was in Perry Middle School attendence area during the 2009 -2010 school year, that school which is now closed receieved a grade of "Effective."  Worthington Kilbourne High School received a grade of Excellent for the 2009 - 2010 school year from the State of Ohio.

Congratulations to Worthington's Bluffsview Elementary School students and teachers:  

Bluffsview Elementary School 2009- 2010  report card

The 2009 - 2010 school year report cards from the state of Ohio are out and the Bluffsview Elementary School in the Worthington City School District got a grade of Excellent with Distinction!  The link is the .pdf  which gives detailed information for the elementary school. 

An A+ ?  It is the highest designation.

The six designations for schools in Ohio:

• Excellent with Distinction
• Excellent
• Effective
• Continuous Improvement
• Academic Watch
• Academic Emergency

Map  Bluffsview Elementary School  is located at 7111 Linworth Rd, Columbus, OH 43235.  The Worthington elementary school serves kindergarten through sixth grade students.

Neighborhoods that attend Bluffsview Elementary currently include Lakes of Worthington, Stilson Highlands, Stilson Village, The Bluffs,  Worthington Lakes and Worthingview.

School attendence area can change year to year based on population shifts within the school district.  The Worthington City School District website has a map that shows attendence areas as well as a list of attendence by street.  

The Worthington City School District as a whole got a grade of Excellent from the State of Ohio.

Bluffsview Elementary School neighborhoods

This post brought to you by 1344 Snowmass Rd, Columbus OH 43235, a listing in the Worthingview  neighborhood and  Worthington's Bluffsview Elementary School  attendance area.  The address link provides current information on that listing.

Worthington history a presidential visit....

Yes it was newsworthy when President Obama visited a home on the northside of Columbus last Tuesday... The Columbus Dispatch called E. Kanawha  Clintonville.  The Toledo Blade called the neighborhood south of present day Worthington  Sharon Heights...

On August 25, 1817 President James Monroe visited the Village Green in Worthington.  Worthington was founded in 1803.

Worthington history

The Timeline on the Worthington Memory says August 25, 1817, President James Monroe visited the Worthington  Village Green.  The fifth US President, Monroe was the President from 1817 to 1825.   The original Village of Worthington is now the Old Worthington neighborhood.  The Village Green at the center is still there today.    Worthington Timeline

More about Worthington history

Worthington a New England village in Central Ohio

Happy Birthday St. John Epsicopal Church 

Worthington a part of the plan

Village of Forest Ridge - Open Sunday,  August 22, 2010 and price reduced - 184 Cameron Ridge Dr. Columbus Ohio 43235

Price reduced to $149,900.  $149,000!!!!!  ooops edit 8-23-2010

Click the address link above for details on 184 Cameron Ridge Dr.  Columbus Ohio 43235 including:

• Status
• Photos
• Map
• More...
  

Sunday August 22, 2010 open house hosted by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER Worthington;

Village of Forest Ridge is a condominium community in the Worthington City School District, and the City of Columbus.  The Village of Forest Ridge is off Flint Rd. north of 270.  

Worthington condos for sale  - the condo market

Worthington area - Flint 

Worthington Heights is a community of free standing condominiums in the Far North area of the City of Columbus and the Worthington City School District.  Worthington Heights was built by Qualstan,  a company that no longer builds in Columbus.  I still see a listing in Google... someone else using the Qualstan name?  Or just a Google ghost?

Worthington Heights (map) is at Sancus Blvd and Modoc Rd  north of 270 and just south of the Polaris area.

Qualstan closed shortly after the owner, Don Ettore passed away quite a few years ago now.  Qualstan built affordable single family homes and condos in many Central Ohio communities for a number of years.... 40 years according to a 2002 Business First Columbus article.

I believe Worthington Heights is the only free standing condo community that Qualstan built.  Are you aware of other free standing condos built by Qualstan?  Village Homes, Dominion Homes and others got into to the free standing condo business much later.

Worthington condos for sale - SEARCH

The floor plans in Worthington Heights are the same or very similar to floor plans in two single family Qualstan neighborhoods in Hilliard.   The floor plans in Worthington Heights are the same as a couple in Crosscreek and Sweetwater Estates.  Most of the condominum homes in Worthington Heights are two story but there are some bilevels and one story floor plans as well.

There are some differences in owning a free standing condo than in a typical attached condominium.

Worthington condos for sale  a recent market report shows condos have sold in Worthington Heights

Far North Columbus Identity Crisis

Worthington area condominiums a puzzle

If you use the Worthington condos for sale link, the SEARCH link above you will search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on the Real Living HER site. If you sign in you will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You can know the true status of the properties you are interested in.

Worthington condos for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER

This graph shows Worthington condominiums for sale for the past 15 months.  The condos are all those in the Worthington City School District.  There is a 17.6 month supply based on the current rate of sales, that is up 71% from July of 2009. Sales of condominiums were down 36.4% from a year ago.

If you are looking to get into a Worthington condo from a single family this may be a great time to do so, it's definitely a buyers market.

Worthington condos for sale a market report for July 2010

• 123 condos for sale
• 7  condos sold
• 17.6 months of inventory

• Average active price $143,000
• Average sale price $89,000
• Median sale price $95,000

Worthington condos for sale - neighborhoods

The seven condos which sold (closed) in July 2010 were all in the City of Columbus condominium communities in the Worthington school district, none were in the City of Worthington or the Village of Riverlea.  All but one of the condos sold was in the Sancus Road area.   The condo that was not in the Sancus Rd. area  was in Western Hills subdivision (north of Hard Rd, east of Smokey Row Rd.) The condominiums in the Sancus Road area that sold in July 2010 were the in Worthington Heights, Worthington Park and Worthington Woods.

Worthington condos for sale - search

Condominium communities in the City of Worthington with properties for sale in July and now include Bainbridge, Residences of Worthington, Strathaven of Worthington, Ville Charmante, Worthington Inn Condominium, Worthinglen and Worthingville.

There is a big difference in price between the majority of the condos in Worthington schools in Columbus and those that are in the City of Worthington.

Condominium communities in the City of Columbus and the Worthington school district for sale in July and now include properties in Orchard Knoll, Ravines at Flint Park, Traditions at Highbluff, Village at Deer Creek, Village at Forest Ridge, Worthington Glen, Worthington Heights Worthington Woods and more.

There is one property on the market at Riverlea Condominiums, in the Village of Riverlea.

Published August 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of July  2010.   Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors.  According to Trendgraphix neither  CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."   No guarantee from me either!

If you use the Worthington condos for sale link you will search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on the Real Living HER site.  You will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You can know the true status of those properties you are interested in.

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER Worthington

The graph shows the inventory of single family homes for sale for the past 15 months in the 43235 ZIP code.   There area 115.8%  more (single family) homes for sale in the Columbus Ohio 43235 ZIP code than there were a year ago.   There were 46.7% less homes sold in July 2010 than in July 2009.  The average sold price was up 4.6% from July 2009 but the average list price is down 18.2% from a year ago.

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale - a market report for July 2010

• 168 homes for sale
• 16 homes sold in July 2010 
• 10.5  months of inventory

• Average active price $270,000
• Average sale price $250,000   
• Median sale price $270,000

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale neighborhoods

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale - Search

The Columbus Ohio 43235 ZIP code is the West Worthington Post Office.  It is hard for me not to think of this area as Worthington even though some of it is in Columbus schools and other neighborhoods in the ZIP code are in Dublin schools. Much of the 43235 ZIP code is City of  Columbus neighborhoods but there are homes in the Columbus Ohio 43235 ZIP code in unincorporated areas of Perry and Sharon Townships too.

Homes in the Columbus City School District in neighborhoods including Linworth Village (not to be confused with Linworth which was a Village and is in Worthington schools and the 43085 ZIP code), Indian Hills, Sycamore Hills, The Gables and other neighborhoods.

Homes in Dublin schools in neighborhoods including Brookside Colony, Old Sawmill (some Old Sawmill homes are in Worthington schools too)  and  many other neighborhoods.

Homes in Worthington schools in neighborhoods including Brookside Estates (some Brookside Woods homes are in Dublin schools), Brookside Woods, Stilson Highlands, Summerwood, The Bluffs, The Sanctuary,  Worthington Highlands, Worthington Highlands,   Worthingview and many more.

Published August 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of July  2010.   Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors.  According to Trendgraphix neither  CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."   There is no guarantee from me either.

If you use the Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale link you will search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on the Real Living HER site.  You will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You can know the true status of those properties you are interested in.

More about Columbus Ohio 43235 real estate and neighborhoods:

Columbus Ohio 43235 - demographics

Worthington homes for sale. Is it a buyer's market?  - July 2010, compare to the Worthington City School District, there is some overlap

Columbus Ohio 43235 home sale  - A market report for May 2010 home sales were up 42.3%

Columbus Ohio 43235 home prices  -  June 2010 a market report focusing on home prices.   Average sale prices of homes were down.

August 10, 1803 the Scioto Company voted to name the town in Ohio "Worthington" after Thomas Worthington, one of Ohio's two first senators.

The Timeline on the Worthington Memory site tells me so.   Timeline of Worthington History

"1803 August 10" also according to the timeline the Scioto Company voted to fund the first library in Worthington on that date as well!  I have a note that says August 11 (but I do not know the year) Orange Johnson came to Worthington.  Not sure if that is on the Timeline of Worthington History too and I am just not seeing it now... the Village of Worthington sign shown here is the sign at North St.  and High St,  The sign across the street from the  Orange Johnson house.

Thomas Worthington - Ohio's first senator

Hmmmm wonder what the other senator's name was?  What if they had honored the other senator from Ohio?  I suppose I can find that info someplace.

More about Worthington history

Worthington and Parts Adjacent

Worthington A Part of the Plan

Worthington Ohio on this day in history