Courts and lots in North Olmsted.

North Olmsted's school district runs three primary schools and three intermediate schools besides its secondary schools, and each building brings its own pavement: parking, drop-off loops, playground blacktop and, here and there, a court. A cycle of crack filling and sealcoating across all of them is the kind of plan a business manager can put in a five-year budget, and the work we would rather do in one visit, in September and October, once the school year has settled.

North Olmsted is a Lorain Road city, with retail and office lots along the road and the church and apartment lots behind them. Fairview Park's Morton Park courts and Westlake's Tri-City Park are on the company's job list, so a visit here fits a day on the west side. The city is eighteen miles and about twenty-four minutes from the yard, out I-480 or I-90.