A visit August 27, 2007 to the building lots of the Woda Group of Columbus reveals the continuing steady march of new homes for Newark's east side. None of the homes I saw was occupied, though many appeared to be completed, and they also appear to be well-built, yet for the most part not yet landscaped. To me the whole thing is still a mystery, as it was on May 17, 2007, when I wrote about what I perceived then - and now -
as knee-jerk government at work.
Here is an excerpt from that observation:
There has been no public discussion that I know of about who is going to manage this potential brand-new slum turf or to what standards that management will be held. There was no report, to my recollection, about whose idea this was, how it got as far as it did without public discussion, and exactly who are the local profiteers. Neither has there been any public dialog about how long the developer, The Woda Group, is going to be in business around here, or anywhere, and what's going to happen to these places if present developers abandon them after they're built. In fact, there was no public discussion of any kind. It just went through government gatekeepers and developers and here it is.
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