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Could Woodland Meadows Become Bexley Athletic Fields
October 17th, 2007 categories: Bexley
I don’t see the city of Columbus giving away what could be tens of thousands of dollars in property taxes, income taxes and potential retail/light industrial/warehouse space. Also, I don’t know if the Bexley School System could absorb the kind of money it’d take to buy and develop this property strictly for athletics. Maybe a win-win partnership between the city of Bexley and the City of Columbus
from the Dispatch story . . .
Now that the Woodland Meadows apartment complex has been leveled, could a Bexley schools athletics complex be in its future
That’s an idea a Bexley sports booster is championing, although Woodland Meadows Partners LLC still owns the 52-acre East Side property, which is in foreclosure.
“There has been a lot of interest from the school administration,” said Paul Kolada, who pitched the idea to the school district. Kolada heads the athletic boosters and owns the industrial-design company Priority Designs.
Kolada said Bexley academics are highly rated, but the district of a little more than 2,000 students needs better athletic facilities to compete against other suburbs. The district’s athletes are scattered, with soccer players practicing at Wolfe Park in Columbus, the football team practicing at Maryland Avenue Elementary in north Bexley and the baseball team at Capital University in south Bexley.
Schools Superintendent Michael Johnson has met with Kolada but said the school board hasn’t discussed his ideas.
“There needs to be considerable public debate on it,” Johnson said. “It’s not going to be inexpensive.”
Leslie
January 30th, 2008
What article was this? I would like to know more about this .