Dover Mayor: Developers showing ‘tremendous interest in the city’
DOVER – As a developer is expected to build more than 100 new homes in Dover over the next couple of years, the city’s mayor is anticipating significant commercial growth, too.
Lawver Homes has started building houses in the 30-home Crimson Cove subdivision and has proposed building about 80 more in another development on the city’s north side.
Mayor Shane Gunnoe says that might not be the end of new housing construction in the city as other developers have expressed interest.
Not far away, at least three properties are drawing interest from commercial developers.
The city’s planning commission has already approved a lot split near the corner of North Wooster and Ohio avenues where ALDI wants to build a new grocery store.
Gunnoe says commercial developers have also shown interest in the land across the street next to Starbucks and catty-corner on the other side of Wooster Avenue next to Drug Mart.
Gunnoe says ALDI officials are working on a purchase agreement to buy land from Zimmer and waiting for land owned by the Ohio National Guard to be up for sale.