August 21, 200618 yr Hill-Byrne closed for reconstruction Toledo Blade, 8/2/06 Jason Marcinkowski had seen the detour signs posted along Hill Avenue at Westwood Avenue and had heard that reconstruction of Hill's intersection with Byrne Road was starting yesterday, but he kept driving west just the same. "I didn't think everything was closed - I thought I could get through," Mr. Marcinkowski said after discovering that he could not, in fact, get through. Hill and Byrne, used by about 47,000 vehicles on a normal day, will be available to zero vehicles until the middle of next week while Miller Brothers Construction, the Archbold-based contractor for the Byrne reconstruction, rebuilds the intersection. Jeremy Hurst, the project manager for Miller Brothers, said his firm persuaded the city that shutting the intersection down would allow the work to get done in eight days instead of between 30 and 40. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 21, 200618 yr BROKERAGE OFFICE UNDER WAY IN SYLVANIA TWP. Toledo Blade, 7/30/06 Roof trusses rise into place for the new offices of the metro Toledo branch of A.G. Edwards brokerage. The building, on Crossleigh Court in Sylvania Township, will have about 15,000 square feet and is expected to be ready by early 2007. It will house 30 people, who will move from A.G. Edwards’ longtime office in the Westgate area and from a recently acquired branch of another brokerage.
August 23, 200618 yr From the 8/22/06 Toledo Blade: Area dwelling-unit growth far behind nation's leaders Each Toledo area county had more homes, apartments, mobile homes, and other housing units last year than the year before, but none grew rapidly enough to be near the U.S. housing growth leader, Flagler County, Florida. The Sunshine State county had the highest rate of housing unit growth for the second year, with 15 percent more units on July 1, 2005, than it had a year earlier, according to figures released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau. No Ohio or Michigan counties were included in the top 25 housing-unit growth areas nationwide. Locally, most area counties had relatively small increases last year from 2004. But Monroe County, Michigan, had the sharpest increase, at almost 2 percent or 1,171 more units. New subdivisions in the city of Monroe, near Dundee, and just across the state line from Toledo in Bedford Township and Lambertville are the prime reasons for the county's housing growth, said Kim Sachs, president-elect of the county's Association of Realtors. "The county is getting new buyers from the [Detroit] downriver area, as well as Toledo," he said. "A lot of it has to do with the taxes. They are less than in Wayne County." Property taxes in Monroe County also are less than in much of the Toledo area. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060822/BUSINESS05/608220407/-1/BUSINESS
August 24, 200618 yr Sylvania fine tunes Monroe Street plan Toledo Blade, 8/10/06 Lighting improvements. New landscaping. Sign control. Fewer power lines. Incentives for new businesses. The list of possible elements to the Monroe Street beautification project goes on, and Sylvania officials are working to decide exactly what improvements will be made in the coming year. According to City Council President Barbara Sears, the project will improve the Monroe Street corridor from U.S. 23 to Main Street in Sylvania, with the heaviest emphasis on the Harroun Road area. The construction that began early this summer on the stretch is the first phase of the plan. Crews are rebuilding the road, burying five overhead power lines, and putting in sidewalks and new curbs, Mayor Craig Stough said.
August 24, 200618 yr 'Green House' project awaits green light to break ground Toledo Blade, 8/10/06 The idea isn't to alter the care given to the elderly in nursing homes, but rather to change the homes in which the care is administered. It's an offshoot of the renowned elderly care program known as the "Green House Project," and it's about to come to Perrysburg. Otterbein Retirement Living Communities essentially needs only a building permit from Wood County to break ground on special-use nursing homes near the Fort Meigs-Five Point Road intersection. The elderly- care specialists are awaiting approval from the Monclova Township zoning commission and board of trustees to construct similar facilities at 5083 Black Rd. Well-known for its traditional nursing homes in Ohio in Pemberville, Lakeside, Lebanon, Cridersville, and St. Mary's, Otterbein is following the "Green House" movement of taking residents out of a clinical setting and placing them in a homelike atmosphere. It plans to build five, 10-bed small houses at one address in both Perrysburg and Monclova and one on its Otterbein-North Shore campus in Lakeside. The Ohio Department of Health confirmed the Otterbein projects are the first of their kind in the state.
August 25, 200618 yr Federal grant moves goal a bit closer for senior center Toledo Blade, 8/10/06 Officials are slowly but surely seeing a diminishing gap between the funds they've been promised and the funds that are needed for a project that would connect a new senior center and food pantry to an elementary school in Jerusalem Township. The project got a healthy boost last week when U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) announced that $100,000 in federal funding has been allocated for the proposed Jerusalem Township Senior Center, which would be constructed alongside an addition to Jerusalem Elementary School, 535 South Yondota Rd., near Sacks Road. "This is one of the moments that makes public service worthwhile - when you can help achieve a really worthy objective," Miss Kaptur said after the announcement. "This really is very visionary what they're doing, and they're making progress, little by little." The funds, which were appropriated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, give the project more than half the funding it needs to become a reality. Toledo Blade: Funding is announced for senior center project (8/3/06)
August 28, 200618 yr From the 8/28/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: The Sunoco refinery along the Oregon-East Toledo border, which recently was retrofitted at a cost of $100 million so that it can meet U.S. EPA requirements for producing lower-sulfur gasoline, is to undergo another $100 million upgrade. The improvements stem from the company's 2005 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle Clean Air Act violations dating from 1998 at four refineries. ( THE BLADE ) Forum to address 2nd part of Sunoco refinery upgrade By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER Plans for another $100 million upgrade of Sunoco Inc.'s refinery along the Oregon-East Toledo border will be discussed at a public forum tomorrow night. A draft permit issued by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency contains the scope for more pollution controls and expansion work. It stems from an agreement Sunoco reached with the U.S. Department of Justice in June of 2005 to settle Clean Air Act violations dating to 1998 at the company's four refineries. The deal was part of a $700 million package involving 14 refineries in six states, one of the largest ever negotiated by Justice Department and U.S. EPA attorneys. Sunoco recently retrofitted its Toledo-area plant at a cost of $100 million so that it can meet U.S. EPA requirements for producing lower-sulfur gasoline. The company's next $100 million phase of work will be discussed at a 6:30 p.m. public hearing at Oregon City Council chambers. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060828/NEWS18/608280318/-1/NEWS
September 2, 200618 yr AUTO SERVICE CENTER UNDER WAY IN SYLVANIA TOWNSHIP Toledo Blade, 8/27/06 Masons construct a wall of the Tireman Auto Service Center under way on King Road north of Central Avenue in Sylvania Township. The store is expected to open in December, becoming the Toledo company's 14th in the area. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/BUSINESS05/608260369/-1/BUSINESS
September 7, 200618 yr District eyes bond issue to aid with student influx Toledo Blade, 8/17/06 The Anthony Wayne school district is not made of elastic. It only seems that way. The district has had an enrollment increase of between 150 and 200 students in each of the last five years. If the district reaches its projected net gain of 235 students this year, it will attain its highest jump in enrollment in at least 20 years. To cope with the steady influx of new students, Anthony Wayne has done everything from add to its school buildings to hire new staff. The district created nine new teaching positions for 2006-07 and has hired 25 additional teachers over the last three years. Anthony Wayne has continued to stretch itself to provide a quality education for its students, but the district doesn't believe it can reach much further in its current form. It is expecting an increase of 2,000 students by 2015 - up from a March estimate of 1,500 - to bring its estimated total to 6,500 students. The school system is counting on a May bond issue to pass, making possible the construction of a new high school and districtwide reconfiguration.
September 8, 200618 yr Development OK'd in Monclova Township Toledo Blade, 8/24/06 Residents near a planned single-family residential development near Jerome Road in Monclova Township are worried about increased traffic when 114 lots are developed. "We're not upset with them developing property," Deer Valley resident John Eggert said during yesterday's Lucas County Plan Commission meeting in Government Center. "There isn't a road there to handle [the traffic] right now, yet they still approved it. They've approved a subdivision without proper infrastructure." The commission voted unanimously to recommend the township approve preliminary drawings for the development, McCarthy Builders' Crystal Ridge II and III. Adjacent to it are Deer Valley and Crystal Ridge I. Several residents asked the commission to delay the development until more roads within the development are extended to outside roadways. Drawings presented at the meeting showed the only current access roads into Crystal Ridge run through Deer Valley and Crystal Ridge 1. The commission agreed to omit a pedestrian connection between the development that was a part of a previous development, and Brian McCarthy of McCarthy builders agreed to install streets to the north and east to provide connections to roads that will be constructed as parts of other development projects.
September 9, 200618 yr Tax-incentive plan divides city council Toledo Blade, 8/31/06 Sylvania City Council is facing some opposition as it considers a tax-incentive program to encourage economic development along a portion of the Monroe Street corridor. The city would lack discretion on what type of businesses could obtain tax abatements under the proposal, Councilman Doug Haynam said. Mr. Haynam as well as Sylvania Board of Education members are against the proposal because of financial and philosophical reasons. In 1987, the city established Community Reinvestment Area No. 1, but in 1996, council stopped accepting new applications for tax exemptions in that area. In recent months council has discussed possible CRA amendments; the finance committee recommended the city again accept applications for tax exemptions in the existing CRA No. 1. The Sylvania school board opposes the proposed resolution because it would take away funds the district otherwise would receive as a result of development in the community reinvestment area, according to board members. The first of three readings on the CRA resolution was last week, but some council members indicated that they expect revisions before legislation is adopted. Mr. Haynam said he would be loath to approve a tax abatement that would have a negative financial impact on Sylvania schools.
September 12, 200618 yr From the 9/7/06 Toledo Blade: Bono curve road work to close Rt. 2 west Weather delays final paving until spring By DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER The ongoing reconstruction of State Rt. 2 at the Bono curve in eastern Lucas County will require closing the road to westbound traffic for about a month, starting on or about Sept. 25, the Ohio Department of Transportation announced yesterday. The Bono curve is one of two 90-degree turns on what is otherwise an arrow-straight highway from Oregon to the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Ottawa County. The curve has been the scene of numerous crashes over the years, most involving motorists who failed to round it successfully and ran off the road or collided with oncoming traffic. During the $3.88 million improvement project, shoulders are being widened from four feet to 10 feet, the eastbound left-turn lane at Bono Road is being widened, and turn lanes are being added in both directions at Veler Road and eastbound at Main and Water streets. Full story at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060907/NEWS11/609070357/-1/NEWS
September 15, 200618 yr From the 9/8/06 Toledo Blade: Critical-care facility under way in Sylvania Regency Hospital, a 60-bed facility for long-term care of critically ill patients, is scheduled to open next July on Alexis Road in Sylvania. The hospital will be operated by the for-profit Regency Hospital Co. chain, of the Atlanta suburb Alpharetta, Ga., a spokesman said. The facility is eventually to have 200 to 250 employees. Construction is under way on nine acres at 5200-5430 Alexis, purchased in June for $750,000 from the Sylvania Church of God. The hospital will cover 40,000 square feet and cost $8 million to $10 million to construct. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060908/BUSINESS03/60908008/-1/BUSINESS
September 17, 200618 yr Planners OK waiver for LMHA housing Toledo Blade, 9/16/06 The Toledo Plan Commission yesterday approved projects aimed at benefiting college students and lower-income families, despite strong opposition to the plans from neighbors. One winner in the day's zoning battles was the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority, which sought a waiver on density restrictions at 6020 Kincora Drive so it can build three three-unit triplexes and a duplex for lower-income residents. Despite residents' contentions that so many housing units would overcrowd the property, the commissioners approved the project, 4-0, with Bernard Culp abstaining. Later, the commissioners weighed an application from Toledo Campus Ministry Fellowship for a special-use permit to expand its student Interfaith Center meditation chapel and add a coffeehouse and activity space. The vote in favor of the expansion was 3-2, with Chairman Stephen Serchuk and Vice Chairman David Gstalder dissenting. Both projects now go before City Council, which must have a three-fourths majority - nine votes - to overturn the commission's recommendations.
September 20, 200618 yr From the 9/19/06 Toledo Blade: Sylvania council supports tax incentive Sylvania City Council last night approved a tax-incentive program for a portion of the Monroe Street corridor that is designed to encourage economic development along the busy highway. Council's action means that applications will be accepted in the city's Community Reinvestment Area No. 1 that was set up in 1987. The city stopped accepting new applications from businesses for tax exemptions in that area in 1996, but council's finance committee recently recommended that Sylvania again accept such applications. The resolution approved last night was amended because of concerns about the financial impact of tax abatements on Sylvania schools. Full story at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060919/NEWS18/609190416/-1/NEWS
September 21, 200618 yr From the 9/21/06 Toledo Blade: Fall start is eyed for housing near Owens By ERIKA RAY BLADE STAFF WRITER Two new housing subdivisions are planned for Lake Township, and one plans to move forward with construction this fall. The other is moving backward - from being presented to the Lake Township trustees to once again going before the Lake Township Zoning Commission. The project that developers hope to break ground on this fall is the proposed Owens Lake Commons, to be built just south of Owens Community College. The development would be located on the east side of Tracy Road between Ayers and Walbridge roads and would have apartments and townhouses for students, though the development is not affiliated with the college, said William Imes, developer with IRI Development of Toledo. "That's what our purpose is," he said of the proposed student housing development. "We know there's a need there, and we're just trying to fill that need." Full story at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060921/NEIGHBORS02/609200301
September 24, 200618 yr Well, this is kind of related. From the 9/14/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: The Fraker Mill Bridge on the Wabash Cannonball Trail. ( THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH ) WABASH CANNONBALL TRAIL Fraker Mill Bridge dedication set By JANE SCHMUCKER BLADE STAFF WRITER DELTA - Sunday afternoon's planned dedication of the Fraker Mill Bridge on the Wabash Cannonball Trail - a former railroad turned into a walking, running, biking, and horseriding trail - has been a long time coming. Its name goes back to 1834 when Thomas Fraker bought land near Delta's southern limits and built a log home. Jump ahead 167 years to the summer of 2001, when about a dozen members of the Northwestern Ohio Rails-to-Trails Association Inc. spent nine straight days erecting a timber-framed, covered bridge over Bad Creek near the Swancreek-York township line. "We wanted to have a showpiece for our trail," said Bonnie Markley of the 40-mile trail that runs from Williams County to the Maumee area. "And that seemed the perfect site for one." MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060914/NEIGHBORS05/609130344
September 24, 200618 yr From the 9/24/06 Toledo Blade: SWANTON Shuttered township school may be torn down in October By DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER The old Swanton Township School is likely to succumb to a wrecker's ball next month after the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority failed to find a tenant for the 67-year-old building. The port authority's airport committee voted on Friday to accept a $73,000 bid from D&R Demolition, of Archbold, Ohio, to tear down the school building that the agency bought for $500,000 two years ago after officials determined it could not be properly insulated against noise from airplanes at Toledo Express Airport next door. More at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060924/NEWS18/609250338/-1/RSS09
September 24, 200618 yr From the 9/22/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: The new electronic billboards have been inspired by the Veterans' Glass City Skyway that's still under construction. ( THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH ) New span over Maumee becomes sign by design Firm's billboards replacing older ones By DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER Images of the Veterans' Glass City Skyway have been greeting Toledo visitors on signs even before the towering new I-280 bridge's construction began four years ago. Now another interpretation of the cable-stayed structure stands before motorists entering downtown at the critical west gateway where the Anthony Wayne Trail, the northbound exit ramp of I-75, Erie Street, and Lafayette street merge. This one is in the form of a billboard tower. Along with supporting two electronic billboards - one already in place facing where the Trail and I-75 exit ramp empty onto Erie Street and another to be erected facing Lafayette - the tower has cables angling down in a fashion resembling the cable stays being put on the I-280 skyway. Full story at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060922/NEWS16/609220384/-1/RSS10
September 26, 200618 yr From the 9/24/06 Toledo Blade: Couple give $3M to finish sport complex Expansion into residential area worries neighborhood groups By JANET ROMAKER BLADE STAFF WRITER Central Catholic High School's Fighting Irish football team will be playing on its home turf again starting next fall, thanks to a $3 million gift from two graduates. The donation from Charles P. Gallagher and his wife, Diane, announced yesterday, will be used to complete the Gallagher Athletic Complex that opened eight years ago at the diocesan, co-ed school on Cherry Street. The additional money will pay for an expansion of the school property into a residential area across Walnut Street. More at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060924/NEWS04/609240348/-1/NEWS
September 27, 200618 yr State grants $40,000 for work in Maumee Toledo Blade, 9/27/06 The Maumee Planning Organization has received a state grant to help with improvements for a planned corporate operations center for First Federal Bank of the Midwest. The State Controlling Board has approved a $40,000 business development grant for construction of water and sewer lines for the project, which is expected to create 33 jobs and retain 85.
September 28, 200618 yr From the 9/27/06 Toledo Blade: County OKs water accord with Toledo Townships limit growth, share benefits under plan By ERICA BLAKE BLADE STAFF WRITER Approval of a water agreement between Lucas County and the City of Toledo would open the city's spigot to townships in the western part of the county, but only for those willing to live by the rules. County commissioners voted 2-1 yesterday to approve a deal allowing Toledo to sell water to rural western townships if they adopt policies that restrict growth and agree to share any resulting tax benefits with the city. The agreement would provide water to all townships in western Lucas County not already receiving city water, including parts of Providence, Richfield, Spencer, Swanton, and Harding townships. The agreement would allow Toledo to sell water to residents in the townships, but any expansion of water use, such as for new housing or commercial developments, would have to be approved by city council. More at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060927/NEWS16/609270378/-1/RSS10
September 28, 200618 yr ADDED RETAIL IN TOLEDO'S POINT PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD Toledo Blade, 9/28/06 Framing for a decorative crown goes into place at an 18,000-square-foot shopping center under construction on Suder Avenue in Point Place next to the new Kroger store. The center is scheduled to be completed by late November.
October 2, 200618 yr Hold OK'd on sale of Sylvania 'park' land Toledo Blade, 9/28/06 Sylvania City Council has agreed to a moratorium on the sale of city property that is considered park land - while officials draw up a definition of what is a park. Meanwhile, residents have learned that Highland Meadows Golf Club no longer has an immediate interest in an adjacent park for a chipping green, but there remains some possible future interest. Bud Fisher, a Sylvania resident who has campaigned to prevent the sale of David E. Richards Park to Highland Meadows, last week asked council to vote yes or no whether the city would preserve Richards Park as a park, but council declined to take action because of questions and concerns over city park property.
October 3, 200618 yr Chapel opponents not deterred Toledo Blade, 9/16/06 Neighbors opposed to a special-use permit that would allow the Toledo Campus Ministry Fellowship to expand its Interfaith Center chapel and add a coffee house and activity space say they plan to take their fight to City Council. "We will oppose this at council and by any legal means," said Jim Sworden, a resident of the adjacent Indian Hills neighborhood. The Toledo Plan Commission approved the request Thursday for the chapel, which is in a converted two-car garage at 2080 Brookdale Rd. The location almost straddles the boundary between the University of Toledo and the leafy Indian Hills neighborhood, which is zoned strictly for single-family homes. A petition opposing the project has 39 names, said Mr. Sworden, one of a handful who spoke out at the plan commission meeting. "We see this influx of people into our neighborhood as lowering our property values and quality of life," he said. Neighbors also claimed the expanded building would attract noisy students, generate foot and vehicle traffic, negatively alter neighborhood aesthetics, and possibly trigger future high-density student housing.
October 5, 200618 yr LOL...Norwalk really is out in nowhere land as far as proximity to metros. I usually put the small Norwalk stuff in this thread since the Toledo Blade is the only major Ohio paper that ever mentions Norwalk. They were moved from the Norwalk Commons thread because they were not related. Well, if you count Sandusky or Mansfield as metro areas........LOL It's all good.......I was just kidding.............heck northwest or northeast........it really doesn't matter :) But I will behave myself now and post in the Toledo/Northwest thread :-D
October 6, 200618 yr Shows how much time I have! LOL :-D Actually, I probably should have been doing homework!
October 7, 200618 yr From the 10/3/06 Toledo Blade: Sunoco gets OK for $200 million project Sunoco Inc. received state environmental permits yesterday that allow $200 million worth of work at its refinery along the East Toledo-Oregon border. Olivia Summons, Sunoco spokesman, said the Philadelphia-based company was pleased by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's decision to issue a permit for installing more pollution controls and expanding the refinery. The tighter controls stem from an agreement Sunoco reached with the U.S. Department of Justice in June, 2005, to settle Clean Air Act violations dating to 1998 at the company's four refineries. The others are in Philadelphia, Marcus Hook, Pa., and Tulsa, Okla. An Ohio EPA spokesman said there were no changes from a preliminary version of the permit that was discussed at an Aug. 29 hearing in Oregon. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061003/NEWS16/610030347/-1/RSS10
October 7, 200618 yr From the 10/4/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: The $6.2 million building will blend into the Spanish Mission style of the rest of campus. Lourdes plans 1st addition to campus in 42 years New building to house 8 classrooms Lourdes College will break ground today on a $6.2 million, 38,000-square-foot classroom building, the first addition to its Sylvania campus in 42 years. Each of the eight new classrooms will be limited to 40 students, despite enrollment growth after Lourdes slashed tuition for full-time students by 41 percent in 2004. Total enrollment has jumped by 56 percent, to 2,035, in the last three years. With its terra cotta color and rows of arches, the unnamed building will blend into the campus' Spanish Mission style. Its 28-foot-wide central hallway will double as a student lounge area. And a glass atrium sheathed beneath a V-shaped roof will house a computer study center. The V-shaped roof will funnel rainwater into a cistern used to irrigate the landscaping. Geothermal wells extending 300 feet into the ground will handle the building's heating and cooling needs. Full story at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061004/NEWS21/610040373/-1/RSS
October 8, 200618 yr Building projects moving forward Toledo Blade, 8/24/06 Plans to convert the former fire station into the police department in Holland are moving forward, one of two building projects on tap there. The other project focuses on construction of a rustic lodge in Holland's Strawberry Acres Park near McCord Road and Clarion Avenue. Outside funds are being sought for both projects. Holland will seek $300,000 in grants to help pay to retrofit the former fire station, said Harry Barlos, village administrator. Estimated cost for the project is between $500,000 and $700,000. Most of the fire station is open-air space; two bays could be retained as space for police cruisers to park while dropping off prisoners, he said. Design work is to get under way shortly. The fire station was vacated after Holland joined Springfield Township for fire protection in October, 2005. The station, located at the rear of the municipal complex, is about five years old, Mayor Mike Yunker said.
October 9, 200618 yr From the 10/5/06 Toledo Blade: SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP Developer renews bid for plan approval By JANET ROMAKER BLADE STAFF WRITER A developer is seeking approval for revised plans for a housing development in Springfield Township, where residents in May rejected a zoning change for a subdivision at the same location. Charles Grass of Kountryside Land Development Co. Inc. in Whitehouse, has asked for a zoning change that would permit him to develop 49 lots for villa and single-family detached dwellings at 6901 Garden Rd. The zoning change would be from agricultural to suburban residential with a planned unit development. Full story at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061005/NEIGHBORS05/610040360
October 9, 200618 yr From the 10/5/06 Toledo Blade: Sylvania corridor plan gets underway By JANET ROMAKER BLADE STAFF WRITER As the city of Sylvania opens the gate leading toward a Monroe Street corridor project, a steering committee is being formed and a public workshop is being planned. Names of possible members of the project steering committee are being gathered, Councilman Read Backus, chairman of council's streets committee, said earlier this week. About eight to 12 members likely will be named to the steering, or stakeholders, committee, said Cheryl Zuellig, landscape architect with JJR, LLC, in Ann Arbor, the firm hired to provide planning and landscape architectural services to develop streetscape design guidelines for the Monroe and Main streets corridors. The city will pay up to $58,000 to the firm for the services. More at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061005/NEIGHBORS05/610040331
October 10, 200618 yr From the 10/6/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: The Andersons' specialty food market, shown in an artist's concept, is expected to open next year. Andersons to open specialty store Small food market planned for Sylvania Township location By JON CHAVEZ BLADE BUSINESS WRITER In a departure from its familiar hardware-and-groceries general store, The Andersons Inc. today is to begin building a small, specialty food market in Sylvania Township. It will be the Maumee firm's first retail operation that far west in Lucas County and is viewed by some as a gamble, perhaps akin to its focus starting last year on ethanol fuel-producing factories. The market is to be 30,000 square feet, anchoring a retail center on the north side of Sylvania Avenue just west of King Road and directly across from a Kroger store. Its general stores have about 140,000 square feet. Expected to open in the first half of 2007, the market is to have produce, deli and bakery items, fresh meats, specialty and conventional dry goods, and wine and beer, The Andersons said in a statement yesterday, declining to provide more details until today. More at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061006/BUSINESS10/610060373/-1/BUSINESS
October 12, 200618 yr Sylvania Historical Village seeks funds for train projects Toledo Blade, 10/12/06 Sylvania Historical Village is seeking financial support as it makes tracks toward two key projects: construction of a $325,000 building to house two train cars and restoration of an electric locomotive. Sylvania city officials are considering the funding requests, but they have made no decisions. Plans call for the historical society's locomotive to be moved from Sylvania to Maumee, where it would be restored. Boyd Montgomery, chairman of the Sylvania Historical Village, requested that the city allocate up to $25,000 from the Historical Village trust fund to cover expenses involved in moving the engine from Sylvania to the Andersons' train repair building, and then moving it back to the village property. According to Mr. Montgomery, the Andersons has agreed to restore the metal on the engine, paint the locomotive its original black, and stencil lettering onto the engine.
October 16, 200618 yr Oregon OKs 1 project but rejects plans for another Toledo Blade, 10/12/06 One senior citizen housing project on Wheeling Street in Oregon is moving forward while another on Seaman Road has been denied. The Oregon Planning Commission recently granted Lutheran Housing Services, 2411 Seaman Rd., a conditional-use application for an independent senior housing facility. The facility will be on about 18 acres at 175 South Wheeling St. in an R-3 multiple-family residentially zoned area, Oregon Zoning Inspector Mike Rudey said. The facility will be similar to the nearby Luther Hills and Luther Grove independent living apartment complexes, John Henry of Lutheran Housing Services said.
October 18, 200618 yr PHYSICIANS BUILDING TAKES SHAPE Toledo Blade, 10/15/06 A 10,000 square foot office building takes shape at 3934 North McCord Rd., just south of Sylvania Avenue in Sylvania Township. It will house physicians and other professionals. The building, which is scheduled to be completed in the spring, is one of two planned for the site by Buckeye Real Estate Group, Toledo.
October 18, 200618 yr From the 10/12/06 Toledo Blade: Four big dairies end attempt to conceal manure sites COLUMBUS - Four large dairies seeking permits to build in northwest Ohio yesterday gave up their fight to conceal maps of where they plan to spread manure from their potential megafarms. Naomi and Green dairies in Wood County as well as Hillbex and New Ijsselstein dairies in Sandusky County had filed a lawsuit in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to block the release of information that, in the past, had been provided as a matter of public record. The suit, which included three unidentified crop farmers, claimed the release of such information would violate trade secrets. The Ohio Department of Agriculture, which originally sided with the plaintiffs, reversed its position June 21. With the lawsuit withdrawn, the state agency can now release the information. All four dairies are clients of Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development. The Wauseon-based company has been consulting dairy farmers from the Netherlands who have built or are planning to develop livestock facilities in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana that are large enough to be regulated as concentrated animal feeding operations. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061012/NEWS06/610120376/-1/NEWS
October 22, 200618 yr Council OKs $90,000 for Anthony Wayne Bridge lights Toledo Blade, 10/18/06 Toledo City Council voted last night to spend $90,000 to restore lights on the Anthony Wayne Bridge in expectation of visitors in town next year to see the new I-280 bridge two miles downstream. The money is aimed at restoring lights at the sidewalk level and on the towers that sit on piers in the river. Not affected are the lights along the suspension cables and at the tops of the towers of the so-called High Level Bridge. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 24, 200618 yr From the 10/15/06 Toledo Blade: PHOTO: A worker nails roof beams on a new Monclova Township home. Developers are planning eight new plats and 242 homes there. ( THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY ) ATTACHED FILES New single-family developements in the Toledo area (PDF) Sleepy Monclova awaken by loud development boom By MARY-BETH McLAUGHLIN BLADE BUSINESS WRITER Developer Duane Ankney can still remember his first impression of Monclova Township more than a decade ago. "It was bean fields," said the former president of Cavalear Corp., which bought up those fields to develop The Quarry, the first major-sized subdivision in the once sleepy, suburban Toledo township. Today, Mr. Ankney, now president of Watermark Ltd., is one of at least half a dozen developers who are building in the western Lucas County community, whose population has climbed 25 percent in five years, to 8,500 last year. There were 2,200 permits for houses pulled from 1999 through last year, and another 129 have been pulled so far this year. From the start of the year through September, developers have filed plans for eight plats in new or expanded subdivisions that will add another 242 homes. "The growth was predictable because this was the part of the Toledo area that had the most land available for developments," Mr. Ankney said. Full story at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061015/BUSINESS05/610140337/-1/BUSINESS
October 24, 200618 yr PART OF TOLEDO’S AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY FALLING Toledo Blade, 10/20/06 Nearly four months after the nation’s long-running automotive manufacturing plant was closed, demolition has begun at the original Toledo Jeep factory at Central Avenue and North Cove Boulevard. The factory made mostly Jeep Wranglers, cranking out about 11 million vehicles in its 96 years. DaimlerChrysler AG, which moved operations to a new factory a few miles away last summer, has said the entire structure and smokestacks that date back the heyday of Willys-Overland Motor Co. will be torn down. The automaker is expected to sell the site but has not announced a time frame.
October 26, 200618 yr Anthony Wayne superintendent advises against new construction levy Toledo Blade, 10/19/06 Before the Anthony Wayne School District asks its residents for support to construct a new high school, it should make sure it can pay for the buildings it already has. That was the advice new Superintendent John Granger offered to the Board of Education after learning this week the district is heading for a budget deficit in fiscal 2008. According to Interim Treasurer Joe Klein's five-year forecast, Anthony Wayne Schools will have a deficit of $278,295 in June of 2008, and will be $1,741,459 in the red the following year. Faced with these grim numbers, Mr. Granger, who took over for retired Superintendent Randy Hardy on Sept. 1, said the board should avoid placing a bond issue on the ballot in May that would pay for the construction of a new, $56 million high school and improvements to existing buildings. "I do not want to put our community in a situation where we ask them to build a new school we can't afford to operate," Mr. Granger said.
October 26, 200618 yr From the 10/17/06 Toledo Blade: IRA APARTMENTS Apartment owners get deadline for demolition By TOM TROY BLADE STAFF WRITER A Toledo housing court judge has given the owners of the Ira Apartments until Oct. 27 to come up with a credible development plan, or face demolition of the distinctive central city structure. The boarded-up building at Parkside Boulevard and Dorr Street has been vacant almost 15 years. Municipal Housing Court Judge C. Allen McConnell issued an order Friday giving the city permission to raze the Ira, but not before Oct. 27. "If the owners present any viable information regarding rehabilitation or contractors who are prepared to refurbish the building, I'd be willing to look at it," the judge said yesterday. "It's been pending since 2001, and the court felt it was pretty much at the end of the line in terms of trying to get this done." City Law Director John Madigan said owner representative Lewis Ellis has said he has a developer interested in the project, but the city has seen no concrete proof of the developer's interest or expertise in such a project. "They gave us three or four addresses of housing projects he built in Chicago, but we haven't been able to verify any of them," Mr. Madigan said. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061017/NEWS16/610170352/-1/NEWS
October 26, 200618 yr From the 10/25/06 Toledo Blade: Cherry-Central shutdown put off until spring By DAVID PATCH BLADE STAFF WRITER While a reconstruction project that began early this month on Cherry Street will continue for as long as weather permits this fall, city officials have postponed a planned shutdown of Cherry's intersection with Central Avenue until spring because of dicey conditions. It's all part of a $5.2-million reconstruction project on Cherry upon which the Shelly Co., of Findlay, began working early this month. When finished, it will provide a completely rebuilt street between Central Avenue and a point just north of Greenbelt Parkway. The project's first phase has been from just south of Central to Bronson Place, with phases closer to downtown Toledo scheduled for construction next year. More at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061025/NEWS11/610250359/-1/NEWS
October 27, 200618 yr Article published October 27, 2006 Port board OKs study of wind turbine possibilities 2 consultants to survey sites along Maumee Bay The practicality and ecological consequences of erecting a wind turbine on the Maumee Bay shore will be the subject of a study for which the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors yesterday approved hiring two consultants. The port board also took a procedural step that will allow a local preservation group to assume ownership of the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse. Full story at http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061027/NEWS33/610270340/-1/NEWS
October 28, 200618 yr Toledo City Council voted last night to spend $90,000 to restore lights on the Anthony Wayne Bridge in expectation of visitors in town next year to see the new I-280 bridge two miles downstream. Boy, if there was ever a perfect example of money best spent elsewere that was it.
November 7, 200618 yr Delta seeking ways to cut cost of replacing bridge Toledo Blade, 10/26/06 Replacing a simple footbridge - used by dozens of people from two northeast Delta subdivisions - to make it compliant with floodway and disabilities regulations would cost $90,000, according to an engineering firm's estimate. But a newly appointed committee of village council members and subdivision residents hopes to find a way to reduce that cost and keep in place the bridge that children and adults use to walk to the village park and schools, bypassing a busy street that does not have sidewalks. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061026/NEIGHBORS05/610250335 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
November 7, 200618 yr Agency fixing north-end structure to aid homeless women Toledo Blade, 10/25/06 Construction workers and volunteers are giving a face-lift to a former carriage house in North Toledo with the aim of helping women and their families associated with the Aurora Project renew their lives. Yesterday, volunteers from Owens Corning helped Jasmin Thompson, an Aurora Project resident, move closer to completing a new residence for her and her family. About 50 volunteers from the company painted walls, stained wood, and dealt with debris in the two-story brick house off North Superior Street that is being converted into two apartments to help the nonprofit organization in its mission to serve homeless women. The Aurora Project purchased houses at 1025 and 1017 North Superior over a year ago with the long-term goal of turning the area into a safe haven for the women it serves and their families, said Denise F. Fox, the organization's executive director. MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061025/NEWS16/610250385/-1/NEWS
November 15, 200618 yr Possible new senior center to be shaped by survey Toledo Blade, 11/16/06 Oregon authorities are out to determine the needs and wishes of the city's senior population before they move forward on a possible plan for a new senior center. Does the city offer enough programming for seniors? Is the James "Wes" Hancock Senior Citizens Center adequate, or does it need to be expanded? Would seniors support a more centrally located center? Officials are hoping to find the answers to these questions and more with a phone survey this week, said Bob Benton, board president of the senior center. "We were trying to find out an orderly way of finding the needs of the senior citizens out here in Oregon, based upon what we're already offering them," he said. "Hopefully we'll gain a little further insight into what the seniors truly want." Oregon Mayor Marge Brown said the idea for the survey arose when she and city Administrator Ken Filipiak were at a meeting with officials from the Area Office on Aging of Northwest Ohio.
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