Worthington real estate

The Worthington Hills neighborhood does not want the Worthington Hills Country Club to put in a cell tower.... a video from NBC4 ....

In the woods at the 5th tee?

Camouflaged as a tree or not there is resistance in the community surrounding the Worthington Hills Country Club to a cell tower.

A map showing Worthington Hills Country Club:

Worthington Hills homes fore sale

Worthington Hills homes fore sale... sorry for the pun I could not resist.  Worthington Hills is a neighborhood of single family residential properties surrounding a private golf course.

You would have to view the larger map for the full effect.

Worthington Hills is a huge Central Ohio neighborhood north of 270 and just inside Franklin County.  Worthington Hills was the 1966 site of the "Parade of Homes." The first section of Worthington Hills was platted in 1963. 

Worthington Hills homes fore sale

Today there are 14 homes listed on the MLS (multiple listing service)  in Worthington Hills ranging in price from  $189,900 to $575,000,  there is at least one short sale in the bunch.

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According to the book 'Worthington Neighborhoods' by Jennie McCormick, Beechlake Drive was the location in the 1966 "Parade of Homes."  Reading what  McCormick says of the development of the Worthington Hills neighborhood  "to launch a new concept in central Ohio - a residential community surrounding a golf course"  and I scratch my head and say... what about Brookside Estates?  but perhaps that was different...there was a golf course there since the 20's, a neighborhood or neighborhoods were developed around the golf course?  I digress this is about Worthington Hills.      

Parts of Worthington Hills are in Perry and Sharon Townships.  The southern edge of the neighborhood is in the City of Columbus.  All of Worthington Hills is in the Worthington City School District. 

Worthington Hills schools

The current public schools for the Worthington Hills neighborhood are

• Worthington Hills Elementary
• McCord Middle School
• Worthington Kilbourne High School

Attendance areas within the Worthington City School District are subject to change.

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It is time to take the sweaters off the trees Columbus!   Winter is finally over, the daffodils are blooming, it is time to take tree sweaters off.  Arborists recommend tree sweaters be removed immediately as it is getting warm quickly in Central Ohio.

In an effort to make winter more comfortable some Columbus trees wore sweaters through the winter of  '2009 - 2010.' Pictured wearing a colorful sweater is a tree on Cherryfield Ave., Columbus Ohio 43235 in Worthington Hills. 

Nature Blogger Tom Arbour was instrumental in raising awareness to Columbus residents last fall that we were in for a hard winter and that  a sweater could make a difference for a Central Ohio tree. In a Tree Sweater test program trees in the  Worthington area in northern Franklin County wore sweaters, this past winter.  The trees wearing  sweater were primarily in the Worthington Hills area, west of the Olentangy River.  The wooded ravines in Worthington Hills  posed the largest challenge for tree sweatering. 

The future of tree sweaters in Columbus

Depending on what is in store for us next winter meteorologist Jym Ganahl plans to expand tree sweater awareness in 2010.  Ganahl will use Twitter and Facebook in addition to his televised weather segments  to get the word out to Central Ohioans that sweatering a tree is the responsible thing to do when a cold winter is in the forecast.

For now... Tree Sweaters

Winter is over.  The forsythia is in bloom and while we could have three more snows  Ganahl joins experts in  saying it is time to take those sweaters off Central Ohio trees and store them for later this year. Stay tuned to the Channel 4 website for details on the 2010 Tree Sweater program and it's future. 

2010 - 2011 Central Ohio Tree Sweater neighborhoods include:

• Asheville Commons
• Bluffsview
• Brookside Estates
• Brookside Village
• Brookside Woods
• Cambridge Place
• Clayton Place
• Colonial Hills
• Davis Estate
• Deer Creek
• Dupre Heights
• Elmwood
• Forest Ridge
• Hathaway Estates
• Hickory Grove
• Kilbourne Village
• Lakes of Worthington
• Lazelle Woods
• Lindsey Woods
• McAllister Crossing
• Medick Estates
• Morris
• Mount Air
• North Woods
• Northbridge
• Northbrook
• Old Worthington
• Olde Sawmill
• Oldstone Crossing
• Olentangy Highbluffs
• Olentangy Highlands
• Olentangy Hills
• Oxford Place
• Park Highlands
• Park Place
• Pinecliff
• Plesenton Place
• Potters Creek
• Ravens Glen
• Ravines at Deercreek
• Ravines at Worthington
• Ravines of Worthingridge
• Rush Creek
• School Side Village
• Seven Oaks
• Shaker Square
• Smoky Mill Estates
• Smoky Ridge Estates
• Smoky Ridge Village
• Smoky Row Manor
• Squirrel Hill
• Stilson Bluffs
• Stilson Highlands
• Stilson Village
• Stonegate
• Summerwood
• The Bluffs
• The Sanctuary
• The Village at Worthington
• Walden View
• Westbrook Place
• Western Hills
• Westworth Village
• Wilson Hill
• Wimberly Village
• Woodbridge Green
• Woods at Josephinum
• Woods of Worthington Hills
• Worthingridge
• Worthingrow
• Worthington Acres
• Worthington Crossing
• Worthington Estates
• Worthington Green
• Worthington Highlands
• Worthington Trace
• Worthington Village
• Worthington Woods
• Worthingview
• Worthingway
• Worthingwood

The Tree Sweater program may expand for the  2010 -2011 winter, is your neighborhood on that list?  This list is Worthington area neighborhoods.  Other Central Ohio neighborhoods are welcome to participate and sweater their trees as well. Your tree will stay warmer with a sweater.

More about Worthington trees

Worthington Ohio - Tree City USA

80 degrees and Sunny Arbor Day 2009 in Worthington Ohio

Worthington Hills is a popular neighborhood in northern Franklin County. The homes built around the Worthington Hills golf course and the Worthington Hills County Club are sometimes dated.  Other homes have been updated a time or two.... you just never know until you look at a home...

A buyer inquiring about a home used the phrase "Time Warp" on a call.  The agent in my office shared the story telling us about the property...

Time warp from Wikipedia:

"sometimes refer to Einstein's theory that time and space form a continuum which bends, folds or warps from the observer's point of view, relative to such factors as movement or gravitation, but are also used in reference to more fantastic notions of discontinuities or other irregularities in spacetime not based on real-world science."

I have never been a science fiction fan... personally. It amazes me I could follow the TV show 'LOST'  but I have kept up, admirably for the most part... last season Sawyer and Juliette were in the 1970's... one of these could be the bathroom in their home couldn't it? 

The colorful bathrooms here can see bigger in the original post: Suffering from a Colorful Past remember these bathroom photos from Margaret Oscilia of Creative Concepts and Contracting, Salem Oregon are NOT in Worthington Hills.  These colorful room are out in Portland Oregon.

But they could be in almost any 1970's Central Ohio neighborhood, couldn't they? 

I have a certain nolstalgia for the 1960's and 1970's so it is hard for me to condemn flocked wallpaper, shag carpet that has been there since the home was built but vacuumed religiously, blue counter tops, metalic wallpaper, olive green bathroom fixtures.. kitchen cabinets with hinges hanging out for all to see...

Again no homes in Worthington Hills were harmed for this post.  Those bathrooms are in Portland Oregon.  The photos are the property of Margaret Oscilia and have been used with permission.  I understand Margaret will be posting "after" photos on her staging blog of how the baths turn out when they are less colorful. 

Staging a home to sell it, sometimes you have to remove color or replace perfectly good but dated appliances.

In a separate report at a Tuesday sales meeting a harvest gold range was reported in the Worthington Woods area (City of Columbus, Worthington School Disctrict, much lower price range) buyers should use caution when approaching but be aware the  seller has been apprised of the dangers of oudated applianes and is willing to replace the range with something that their buyer deems more acceptable....

Stay tuned a black hole may have developed in northeast Columbus.  Someone please remind me again what a black hole is?

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington