Courts and lots in Solon.

Solon rebuilt Community Park in phases, and the latest piece was a pickleball complex with a covered pavilion, lights, fences and windscreens. The park keeps its eight lighted and four unlit tennis courts. The new courts cost the park some trees, and the debate over that was in the high school paper the week they opened: the part of a pickleball project that never shows in the bid documents, where the courts go, how close they sit to the houses and what fence and windscreen stand between.

A city purchasing summary lists Industrial Surface Sealer among its vendors, though it does not say what the invoice was for, so Solon knows the name. Solon City Schools, the office and industrial parks and the retail lots are the rest of the work, fourteen miles and about twenty minutes from the yard by I-480.