Local coverage
Project conversations across Summit County and the Akron metro.
How far coverage actually extends around Akron depends entirely on which independent providers currently have room on their schedule. Every community listed below gets its own page of housing and site context worth knowing before a project starts.
Cuyahoga Falls
Cuyahoga Falls takes its name from the series of falls and rapids the Cuyahoga River cuts through the city, a natural feature that powered early grist mills and later fed the paper and rubber-adjacent industry that grew alongside Akron through the early twentieth century.
Local planning notes →Barberton
Barberton was founded in 1891 by industrialist O.C. Barber, the 'Match King' who moved his Diamond Match Company's manufacturing from Akron to the new planned town in 1894, and the city grew so quickly around its factories and immigrant workforce that it earned the nickname 'the Magic City.'
Local planning notes →Tallmadge
Tallmadge was founded in 1807 by the Reverend David Bacon, who laid out the distinctive Tallmadge Circle -- a New England-style town square with eight roads radiating out at 45-degree angles -- as one of the best-preserved examples of Connecticut Western Reserve town planning in Ohio.
Local planning notes →Stow
Stow takes its name from Joshua Stow, an early Connecticut Western Reserve land agent, and stayed a mostly agricultural township for well over a century before postwar growth turned it into one of Akron's larger bedroom suburbs.
Local planning notes →Norton
Norton spent most of its history as a rural Summit County township before transitioning into a lower-density residential suburb and eventually incorporating as its own city.
Local planning notes →Green
Green was known as Green Township for most of its history before incorporating as its own city in the 2000s, making it one of Summit County's newest and fastest-growing planned residential communities.
Local planning notes →Wadsworth
Wadsworth was named for General Elijah Wadsworth, an early Connecticut Western Reserve landholder, and its historic downtown square reflects the same New England-influenced township planning found across much of Summit and Medina County.
Local planning notes →Munroe Falls
Munroe Falls grew up around grist and woolen mills powered by the Cuyahoga River, and that same river corridor, now preserved in part as Munroe Falls Metro Park, still runs through the middle of one of Summit County's smallest cities.
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