Channel 12: Last house at Rookwood being razed this morning

According to Channel 12, demolition crews started working at 9:00 a.m. to tear down the last house standing at the vacant 11-acre lot across from Rookwood Commons, site of the long-delayed proposed Rookwood Exchange development. Following a protracted court case challenging Norwood’s use of eminent domain that the Ohio Supreme Court decided in his favor, Joe Horney sold the two-family house for $1.25 million to the developer Jeffrey Anderson a year ago.

Channel 12 says, “Originally the Rookwood Exchange was planned as a $200 million complex including office space, retail, condos and a hotel. Now the developer Jeffrey Anderson Real Estate says its not clear what form the development will take because of the poor economy.”

Click here to view the Channel 12 video.

(h/t to Jeanette)

11:15 AM UPDATE: Click here for the Enquirer’s version of today’s big event and Joe Horney’s quote: “I guess it’s just goodbye to a monument to Norwood’s stupidity. They can tear down the bricks and mortar, but they can’t destroy what we accomplished in the law books.”