Drive east on SR-161 past New Albany right now and you’ll see it before you see anything else: noise walls going up, graders reshaping the shoulder, and a steady line of pickup trucks with toolboxes and lunch coolers turning off toward Smith’s Mill Road....
Walk through Uptown Westerville right now and you’ll feel a specific kind of urgency in the air. It’s not the frantic energy of early spring bidding wars. It’s quieter than that — and in some ways, more powerful. It’s the sound of families...