New Albany, Ohio

Some pics I took last week from an outing to New Albany. I went to look for a house on 161 that was abandonned. It's been at least 6 months since I drove that route last and in the time since then a huge chunk of land with tons of houses on it has been bought up for development. I took a ton of pictures which I will put into a slide show for another post, but for now, there are the ones I like best. They all reveal that sad transistional space between old and new. I wish I knew what the people who sold their land and houses think about all the changes in that area. For all I know they could be overjoyed at the increase in value of their land...none of the boarded up houses was particularly nice. Anyway, here goes: