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Article published July 23, 2007

 

North Baltimore depot spruced up for festival

By JENNIFER FEEHAN

BLADE STAFF WRITER

 

 

NORTH BALTIMORE - CSX Transportation Corp. is hoping some bright green paint and new windows will help buy a bit of goodwill in this southern Wood County town.

 

Just in time for this Saturday's North Baltimore Summer Fest, CSX has spruced up its long-neglected, wood-frame railroad depot, which sits along the CSX tracks in the heart of downtown North Baltimore...

 

Contact Jennifer Feehan

at [email protected]

or 419-353-5972.

 

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  • i checked in to see whats doing and it looks like bg city has a new senior center in the workson main st  -- with a facadectomy:   https://bgindependentmedia.org/bg-takes-next-step-on-plans-

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    Some Bowling Green updates: In sum, there isn't a lot of new residential or commercial construction in town, but significant investment in a rebuilt Wooster St/I-75 interchange - with roundabouts

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    BG officials have been in touch with folks in Oxford, but yeah, BG has a long way to go reconstructing the Wooster St corridor.    The roundabouts are finished now, and a new five-story hote

poured rain the whole time.  :-P

 

 

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instinct lead me straight down the gutter to 'weirds for a cold brew ha ha :drunk:

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amazingly....or not....it's exactly the same, smell and all

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standing under an awning getting rained on. great.  :-P

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presenting awfulhauer towers

you know really....if they put a fence around the college it would look like a prison campus  :|

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speaking of exactly the same (even tho i heard mr. myles has passed away)

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great collegiate 'za

i couldn't resist my old fav -- a small tomato & oregano -- for the road

the secret is they use two sauces -- still just as good too :clap:

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*** bye bye bye beegee ***

 

Thanks for the photos SenorNYC - I just moved up there yesterday (and came back for more) - and it must have been the hottest day of the year there. I'll try to get some photos of the non-penal side of BGSU one of these days.

*Insert Bowling Green bashing to irritate CDawg here*

 

No, honestly, nice shots.  Bowling Green always reminded me of Greenville (long street, Sullivant-esque buildings, flat, corn, etc) except BG obviously has the college and Greenville has, well, a beltway.

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

wow, second pic (mrnyc, see response in the kewpee thread)

^me and brauthaus never really got along

^ thats because the brathouse is eternally the frathouse. i keeps it old skool at howard's.

^ thats because the brathouse is eternally the frathouse. i keeps it old skool at howard's.

 

well that explains why i wanted to punch everyone....

Bowling Green has green power - 391 feet tall to the top of the arc and 1.8 megawatts each. The last time I was there, they had four of them. They appear so graceful and placid from a distance, but up close they're almost scary. I don't know how fast the tips of those rotors are moving, but they absolutely roar through the air as they pass the bottom of the arc. Each turbine is almost as powerful as a freight locomotive.

 

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Interesting that Wood County can get $3-Million in state aid from it's area lawmakers and Seneca County Commissioners can't.  Makes one wonder how hard the Seneca County Commissioners really tried.

 

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Article published August 10, 2007

 

Wood County's verdict: Save courthouse

Lawmakers used muscle to get nearly $3M in state aid

By JENNIFER FEEHAN

BLADE STAFF WRITER

 

BOWLING GREEN — As Seneca County commissioners move closer to razing the county’s long-neglected 1884 courthouse, they insist it would be too little and too late to seek Ohio funds to try to save it.  Historically, courthouses have not been frequent recipients of state funds for renovation, although one of the biggest benefactors sits just next door to Seneca County.

 

In neighboring Wood County, commissioners have gotten nearly $3 million in state capital dollars in recent years to put toward the county’s courthouse complex — $1.75 million to convert the old jail into a records center and law library and $1 million to build an atrium that provides a single, covered entrance and connector to the courthouse, old jail, and county office building.

 

MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070810/NEWS17/70810004/-1/NEWS

“Society really cannot afford to build grand structures like they built in the 1800s; therefore it’s incumbent upon us as the current stewards of these buildings to preserve them for future generations,”

 

Usually they can, it's just that they won't.

 

Cheers to Wood County for having the intelligence to do what their neighbors wouldn't.

 

Awesome news.  Probably one of my favorite Ohio courthouses.

thats cool news, good for them.

 

tim brown lived on the dorm with me at bgsu. good guy, i am not surprized he helped to do that.

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Construction under way on Bass Pro in Rossford

BY GARY T. PAKULSKI

BLADE BUSINESS WRITER

Published: 8/30/2007

 

Nearly 15 years after a new transportation link created what has come to be known as the "golden triangle" in northern Wood County, developers and community officials hope to begin mining the mother lode.  The impetus is the start of work on a Bass Pro Shops outlet, a giant $50 million outdoor store that the owners predict will become a major local tourist draw.

 

The Springfield, Mo., sports retailer will hold a formal ground-breaking today at the site of the store that is to be completed in June.  With 150,000 square feet, it will be the size of 3 1/2 football fields, said spokesman Larry Whiteley.

 

MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/Economy/2007/08/30/Construction-under-way-on-Bass-Pro-in-Rossford.html

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Housing proposal sparks legal battle in Perrysburg

Homes planned next to Fort Meigs

Article published September 16, 2007

By CARL RYAN, BLADE STAFF WRITER

 

Perrysburg's Fort Meigs withstood two British sieges in 1813 and is considered a historical treasure.  Now a different battle - in court - is under way over a developer's wish to build housing on property next to Fort Meigs, along the river.  A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Sept. 27 with Wood County Common Pleas Judge Alan Mayberry.  Preservationists are up in arms, so to speak.

 

They describe Fort Meigs and its surroundings as Perrysburg's "front door" because of its visibility from the other side of the river. Indeed, they note, the bridge connecting Maumee and Perrysburg is officially named the Fort Meigs Memorial Bridge.  "We're against any development there and we're for using it as public land," explained Mary Meyer, a member of the board of Historic Perrysburg, a group that has weighed in against the plan. 

 

The developer, Larry LaPointe of Perrysburg, paid $200,000 for six acres of property next to the fort in 2002, intending to build multiple and single-family housing with an imposing view of the Maumee.  He's been stymied by the property's zoning classification, which bars building on his land consisting of two adjoining parcels, and Perrysburg's refusal to change it.  In his lawsuit, Mr. LaPointe accuses the city of denying him economic use of his land.  He wants the court to order Perrysburg to change the zoning or buy the property.

 

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070916/NEWS18/709160350/-1/NEWS

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Contractor prepares for store's handoff to Bass Pro owners

BY LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE

BLADE BUSINESS WRITER

Published: 5/9/2008

 

Dozens of construction workers yesterday buzzed around the new 150,000-square-foot Bass Pro Shops store under construction in Rossford, planting trees, hanging signs, and cleaning up what local officials hope soon will be a huge tourist draw for the Toledo area.  Inside a construction management trailer across the parking lot from Bass Pro's huge wood-frame and glass building, project managers with Rudolph-Libbe Inc. were busy coordinating the final touches on the $50 million project.

 

They planned to work through the weekend - as they have most previous weekends - to finish the multistory, outdoor-themed "retail destination" in time for a planned handoff to Bass Pro Wednesday morning, a Rudolph-Libbe official on site said.  But the continued toil of construction workers is just a part of the complicated ballet of coordinated tasks that must be completed before Bass Pro Shops opens to the public, now expected to take place right before the July 4 holiday.

 

MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2008/05/09/Contractor-prepares-for-store-s-handoff-to-Bass-Pro-owners.html

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Bass Pro Shops: Newest retailer in Rossford is reelin' 'em in

BY GARY T. PAKULSKI

BLADE BUSINESS WRITER

Published: 6/19/2008

 

Sandy Meinzer emerged from the newly opened Bass Pro Shop in Rossford yesterday after bagging her prey.  The Waterville resident was toting collapsible chairs that she and her husband, Bill, will use while watching their grandchildren s sporting events.  It was great, she said of the fishing, camping, and hunting heaven that lays claim to the crown of No. 1 outdoor retailer in America.

 

Two thousand people streamed through the turnstiles of the $50 million store on opening day Tuesday.  By 10 a.m. yesterday, the parking lot was already beginning to fill. The two-story store, in an area called Crossroads of America, has the equivalent of 3 football fields of space.  The location is south of State Rt. 795 where I-75 crosses over the Ohio Turnpike.

 

MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/Retail/2008/06/19/Bass-Pro-Shops-Newest-retailer-in-Rossford-is-reelin-em-in.html

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what in the?.....my gawd that looks like hell.

 

i wish toledo would go back to not doing suburbs. just look at that, its no surprise, they're just not good at it. doesnt turn out well.

 

of course this is (or was?) the most admirable trait of toledo, the city/region respected the surrounding farmland.

 

Sprawl is still happening in Toledo, just look at western Sylvania, Monclova, and Perrysburg.  Western Sylvania does have a bizarre mixed use faux downtown, "Mayberry"  with a square that faces Centennial Rd.  There's an ice cream shop, some restaurants, a barber, etc, with apts on top.  Directly behind the square you face the sight of detached garages and asphalt.  Behind that are more typically suburban condos.  I only know about it from recently riding my bike in the area.  The sprawl heading west along Sylvania-Metamora Rd seems to be stalling, with unfinished streets and many finished (previously owned?) homes still for sale.

aww man thats too bad about the north/westside sprawl. i'll have to see that. glad to hear its limited. to me that was always my favorite part of the "just outside toledo" boundries.  :|

 

as for heading south to bg, there better not be anything but farms between bg and maumee!!!  :whip: well, ok ,except for a hopefully rotting out old shell of the former dixie electric company disco building halfway on rt25  :laugh:.

In other words, Sylvania is chock full of insanely hot exotic chicks (trumps every place I've been to in Ohio),

 

All the girls I know from Sylvania are...well...let's just say they are far from exotic or hot.

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

In other words, Sylvania is chock full of insanely hot exotic chicks (trumps every place I've been to in Ohio),

 

All the girls I know from Sylvania are...well...let's just say they are far from exotic or hot.

 

Personally, I'm more of a Napoleon girls kinda guy.

They do have hot Lebanese and Mexicans there.

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

Western Sylvania does have a bizarre mixed use faux downtown

 

Actually, Sylvania does have a real downtown in the northeastern section of the city. It's quite nice and there is an actual urban core in Sylvania that's classy, pedestrian-friendly, and functionally urban. It's in Sylvania CITY.

 

The "new urbanism" Mayberry area you are talking about is in Sylvania TOWNSHIP. They are quite different beasts. Sylvania City actually has some real urban development, while the township can make you vomit. Generally speaking, townships have far more uncontrolled sprawl than incorporated cities. A similar thing plays out in the Perrysburgs. Perrysburg City has a great downtown and some grand historic neighborhoods, while Perrysburg Township is more typical suburban trash.

 

Sure, Sylvania has a real downtown, and I'm aware of the difference between the township and city.  I would say that a lot of people are not.  Part of the reason is that Sylvania City is still a part of Sylvania Township.  Being in the same school district also tends to blur people's perception of place.  Mayberry is just south and west of the city limits.  The boundary line is pretty zigzaggy.  Riding around all I see are Welcome to the City of Sylvania signs.  Here's a map of the irregular city and township boundaries:

 

http://www.sylvaniatownship.com/PDF/Zoning%20Map%2003-2007.pdf

 

Just north of Mayberry, north of Erie St., that twisted tangle of cul-de-sacs is within the city limits.  The style of development between fringe city and township is virtually indistinguishable (I guess except for the fake water features in new twp developments).

 

 

All the girls I know from Sylvania are...well...let's just say they are far from exotic or hot.

 

You met Sylvania people at Ohio State. You should have gone to Michigan, or well, a Sylvania high school. :wink:

 

...I'm not recommending going after teenage suburban princesses, just that a high school would give you the best representation of the area. They look a lot like the Disney Channel, but even sluttier.

 

By contrast, if you want ugly, just head a little south of Sylvania down to Anthony Wayne. It's standard issue rich Ohio cornbread suburban trash with some Neapolis meth and pot-smoking hippies from the sand dunes in the west.

 

Nah, I'm thinking the girls at UM and their high school are still equally as...well...not hot.

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

aww man thats too bad about the north/westside sprawl. i'll have to see that. glad to hear its limited. to me that was always my favorite part of the "just outside toledo" boundries.

 

Yeah, from 1990-2005, that area sprawled bad, and it's McMansions out the ass. It was fast, and it was destructive. All of Ohio sprawled horribly during that time period. Luckily, it appears to be over in Toledo.

 

as for heading south to bg, there better not be anything but farms between bg and maumee!!!

 

Don't you mean Perrysburg?

 

no, i mean maumee. if you blink your eyes between maumee/front st when you go over the river to rt 25 south you miss anything else. that cemetary? please. it's all b-f cornfields after that.

 

oh btw i was in toledo last summer. luckily, there is pretty much still no sprawl in toledo vs the other bigger ohio cities. at least due south.

 

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Half-Finished Amphitheater in Rossford Being Demolished

Toledo Blade, November 6, 2008

 

Crews from Commercial & Industrial Dismantling Inc. of Mount Clemens, Mich., raze the half-built amphitheater in Rossford.

 

The now-defunct Rossford Arena and Amphitheater Authority planned to build an outdoor concert venue and an adjacent hockey arena on the site as the centerpiece of a development dubbed Crossroads of America, but the authority ran out of money to finish the project.

 

The Ohio Carpenters Pension Fund bought the 87.7-acre parcel where the half-built amphitheater sits at a sheriff’s sale in 2006 and wants an attractive, ready-to-sell piece of property.

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From Toledo Blade 7/6/09

 

National magazine lists Perrysburg in Top 10

 

For a city that seemingly has stood in Toledo's shadow for years, Perrysburg is carving its own identity again.

 

Last fall, Ohio Magazine named Perrysburg one of the state's top five hometowns.  Now, the city has received accolades on the national level.  The August, 2009, edition of Family Circle that hits newsstands Tuesday lists Perrysburg as one of America's 10 best towns to raise a family - pretty good exposure for what some outsiders view as a homogenous bedroom community.

 

MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2009/07/06/National-magazine-lists-Perrysburg-in-Top-10.html

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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090815/NEWS16/908159997

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Article published August 15, 2009

 

$175 million rail project gets under way in Wood County

Terminal boosts area jobs outlook

 

By DAVID PATCH

BLADE STAFF WRITER

 

NORTH BALTIMORE, Ohio — Michael Shelton estimates that half his family lost their jobs in recent months as auto-industry suppliers in the region have closed factories or reduced production.

 

Full story at the link above:

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Wood County poised for recovery

BY JANET ROMAKER, BLADE STAFF WRITER

Published: 3/31/2010

 

BOWLING GREEN - For the next several years, Wood County likely will face challenges as the economy slowly does a turnaround, commissioners predict in the county's 2009 annual report.  Commissioners, who presented the sixth annual State of the County Address last week in the courthouse complex atrium, have tightened the belt and trimmed the budget as a result of the recession.

 

Commissioner Tim Brown told the audience that last September Wood County commissioners were the first in Ohio to designate an entire county as a recovery zone for the purpose of issuing recovery zone economic development bonds and economic recovery facility bonds, authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  Despite one of the worst recessions to hit the country, there were some economic development high points last year, Mr. Brown pointed out.

 

The $135 million expansion of First Solar in Perrysburg Township will add 130 employees to its existing 700, and the investment of $175 million by CSX Transportation to build a state-of-the-art intermodal rail terminal in Henry Township, near North Baltimore, will bring in 200 new jobs.  The Wood County Hospital has finished a $42 million renovation and expansion project.  And last summer FedEx Ground opened its $90 million package-distribution hub in Perrysburg Township.

 

MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/South/2010/03/31/Wood-County-poised-for-recovery.html

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zoinks -- could this be the end of the 'ol woodville mall?

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Judge rules empty Woodville Mall must be demolished by May 2, 2014

BY ROSA NGUYEN, BLADE STAFF WRITER

Published: 8/10/2013

 

BOWLING GREEN — A Wood County Common Pleas Court judge on Thursday ordered Ohio Plaza Shopping Center LLC and Woodville Mall Realty Management LLC to demolish the former Woodville Mall at 3725 Williston Road.  Attorneys for the current and former owners agreed in court that the property’s violations required abatement by demolishing the building.

(. . .)

Judge Reeve Kelsey ruled that the defendants must construct a fence around the former mall by Sept. 2.  In addition, the former and current owners of the building must submit a plan of abatement to the city engineer for final approval on or before Sept. 30.  All unused structures must be removed on or before May 2, 2014, and all asphalt and cement slabs must be stripped from the premises by July 31, 2014.

 

If the defendants fail to comply with the assigned dates, the city may enter the premises and abate or foreclose the property, according to the court agreement.

 

MORE: http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/2013/08/09/Judge-rules-empty-Woodville-Mall-must-be-demolished-by-May-2-2014.html

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The City of Bowling Green is planning to reshape the East Wooster Street corridor, which forms the southern boundary of BGSU, to include a median and roundabouts at main intersections, between downtown and I-75. The street itself is still in excellent shape, but i agree that the route needs to be friendlier for pedestrians.

 

Some local coverage:

http://www.sent-trib.com/news/evolution-of-east-wooster/article_b90f9f98-8e02-11e5-84dd-3f1338be3723.html

 

http://www.13abc.com/home/headlines/Bowling-Green-business-students-weigh-in-on-E-Wooster-St-project-361516781.html

 

Details of the plan:

 

http://media.graytvinc.com/documents/Bowling+Green+City+Council+11_14_15.pdf

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Workers have put down insulation and attached the roof of a 7,000-square foot building in Bowling Green that will be classrooms and a lab for Penta Career Center.

 

The $1.3 million project, on a 2-acre parcel in the Bellard Business Center near Newton and Brim roads on the northern edge of Bowling Green, will house high school intervention and adult education programs. The Delventhal Co. of Millbury is overseeing construction that began in July. It is to be finished by December so Penta can hold classes in January. Penta spent $52,000 on the land and budgeted $950,000 for design, construction, and equipment. But price hikes for steel because of tariffs and codes that require part of the building to be tornado-proof added $300,000 to the cost.

 

TRANSITION

■ Cameo Pizza will hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Tuesday at 145 N. Main St., Bowling Green.

 

https://www.toledoblade.com/business/real-estate/2018/10/21/business-notebook-northwest-ohio-under-construction/stories/20181021161

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that is great to hear --- i always though penta could be expanded on what they do -- nice to see its growing.

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Some Bowling Green updates:

In sum, there isn't a lot of new residential or commercial construction in town, but significant investment in a rebuilt Wooster St/I-75 interchange - with roundabouts, and the start of a master plan for developing Wooster Street and making the city more pedestrian and bike friendly. 

 

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Pedestrian crosswalks to get beacons on East Wooster

POSTED BY: JAN LARSON MCLAUGHLIN SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 BG Independent News

BGSU students crossing East Wooster Street will soon have the benefit of lights warning motorists to give pedestrians the right-of-way.

Four pedestrian crosswalks were installed last year on East Wooster Street – one by the Stroh Center, and three between the traffic lights at Manville and South College avenues....

 

 

BG’s front door on East Wooster Street needs serious facelift

City officials listen to presentation about East Wooster Street development possibilities.

POSTED BY: JAN LARSON MCLAUGHLIN DECEMBER 11, 2018 BG Independent News

Bowling Green’s front door is not exactly creating a great first impression for those entering the city.

Knowing this, the city and BGSU hired Development Strategies to examine the 1.8 miles of East Wooster from Interstate 75 to the downtown. The firm has spent six months interviewing officials and residents, examining housing data, looking at construction costs, studying the zoning code, and more.

 

Five houses being demolished for East Wooster facelift

One of five homes being demolished along East Wooster Street.

POSTED BY: JAN LARSON MCLAUGHLIN DECEMBER 31, 2018   BG Independent News

Brick by brick and board by board, bulldozers are changing the landscape along East Wooster Street in Bowling Green.

The demolition of the old houses is seen by some as a blessing for the future – while others view it as a loss of the city’s past

The city of Bowling Green received five demolition permit requests at the end of last month for houses across from Bowling Green State University. Those houses – at 926, 930, 1010, 1024 and 1030 East Wooster Street – are now at various stages of demolition.

 

Westbound Wooster to be closed for a month over I-75

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Construction for roundabouts at I-75

POSTED BY: JAN LARSON MCLAUGHLIN MARCH 23, 2019

Westbound East Wooster Street over Interstate 75 will close for one month starting April 15, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation.

This closure is required for the roundabout construction on East Wooster Street at Interstate 75. The ODOT detour will be Mercer Road, Poe Road and Dunbridge Road.

 

 

Report on East Wooster Street doesn’t pull any punches

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Closed business at corner of East Wooster Street and Manville Avenue.

POSTED BY: JAN LARSON MCLAUGHLIN MARCH 24, 2019   BG Independent News

Bowling Green took a jab to the gut last week in the release of a study on the East Wooster Street entrance to the community.

The “strategy for redevelopment,” conducted by Development Strategies of St. Louis, pulled no punches as it pointed out where the city has gone wrong, and where it needs to change course to avoid a downward spiral.

The university and historic downtown are definite draws for the community, the study stated. But East Wooster Street – the front porch of the community – is littered with “haphazard development and poor quality buildings.”

 

BG may buy land downtown; build restrooms by Wooster Green

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Downtown property shaded in yellow and purple that city is considering buying.

POSTED BY: JAN LARSON MCLAUGHLIN MARCH 30, 2019 BG Independent News

Bowling Green officials are taking steps to purchase land for public restrooms by Wooster Green, parking areas on South Church Street and the home of the Four Corner Center on South Main Street.

On Monday evening, City Council will hear the first reading of an ordinance for the issuance of $890,000 in bonds for buying four parcels of land on South Church and South Main streets.

One parcel is at 119 S. Church St., located just south of the police station. The former Huntington Bank Branch location has been closed for several years, but has drive-up ATM units. The city is interested in building bathrooms there that will serve those using Wooster Green as well as visitors to the downtown area.

In addition, the location has been eyed by the city for years as property that could be used to expand the police station. While there are no immediate plans for an expansion, the addition of an improved safety dispatch center is one of the city’s long-term capital plans.

 

 

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wooster street east of main has always been a hideous, ugly mess.

 

i am glad the city and college were called out on it.

 

what to do about it instead of making it worse as they always do is another story.

 

hopefully the old sbx/myles pizza block comes down for a modern apts over retail development someday. and the same for across the street. i would bet the demand is there.

9 minutes ago, mrnyc said:

wooster street east of main has always been a hideous, ugly mess.

 

i am glad the city and college were called out on it.

 

what to do about it instead of making it worse as they always do is another story.

 

hopefully the old sbx/myles pizza block comes down for a modern apts over retail development someday. and the same for across the street. i would bet the demand is there.

Might be time for a visit by city officials to their sister city of Kent, Ohio and see what they are doing right. 

On 10/17/2019 at 10:40 AM, Htsguy said:

Might be time for a visit by city officials to their sister city of Kent, Ohio and see what they are doing right. 

BG officials have been in touch with folks in Oxford, but yeah, BG has a long way to go reconstructing the Wooster St corridor. 

 

The roundabouts are finished now, and a new five-story hotel is under construction on East Wooster where the Victory Inn used to be; Panera is also open on E Wooster -- a new building where the Big Boy used to be, a new lighted BGSU sign is up at Wooster and Mercer, where Harshman used to be, and a few other houses across from the University are coming down.

 

On campus, the new Business building/Hayes Hall is the major construction project, and downtown, reconstruction of Main Street seems to be taking forever, but is almost complete.

 

Last bit: a medical marijuana dispensary is also open in BG, on North Main in the old Glass City Federal Credit Union building. 

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