Yesterday I parked over at the new Ball Park and walked around it. I love it. I am baseball fan and an Indians fan and the idea that this new Park is about 2 miles from my house makes very excited. I have tickets to the second game in the new stadium, a Sunday Afternoon game for our whole family.
But will it increase the value of surrounding homes in the Arena District, the Short North, Downtown and near Downtown neighborhoods? I believe it will help homes in the immediate vicinity retain their already solid value and become a calling card for homes like mine that can tout a “twelve minute bike ride to Huntington Park”. They aren’t making any more land near the Arena District, as they saying goes, so homes within a couple miles, ie walking distance for the not-too-lazy, should see at least a continued extra added value that may sway a home buyer to their home.
If you live at Buggyworks or the North Bank or Burnham Square, life outside your front door just got a lot more active – and congestion filled 365 days of the year with Hockey and Baseball schedules. Of course you walk to most of what you need and the lots aroud Nationwide Arena tend to empty out relatively smoothly.
