Toledo

At 1301 Reynolds Rd; in Reynolds Shopping Center (Dorr & Reynolds, actually)

Thursday, October 23 – noon to 6 p.m. (FOL members only)
6-8 p.m. (public sale)
Friday, October 24 – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (public sale)
Saturday, October 25 – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (public sale)

Franklin Park Land Use Plan

Participate in the Toledo 20/20 Land Use Plan for the Franklin Park Neighborhood. Neighborhood input is needed to help in updating the Land Use Plan for the City of Toledo. The Franklin Park Neighborhood is bounded by the Michigan state line, Secor Road, Central Avenue, and Sylvania Township.

Wednesday October 15, 2008

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

A group of neighbors in Toledo's Vistula Historic District are seeking to vote their precinct "dry" - a move aimed at two carryouts they say are magnets for crime and problems.

"We're tired of this," said Lonnie Homan, leader of the area Block Watch, gesturing to one of the carryouts in question.

Sam Phillips remembers the flood of 1973, when a few inches of rocks protected his Point Place house from the crashing waves of Lake Erie.

The water threatened, but it never entered his Lakeside Avenue house. Others in Point Place, though, weren't as lucky.

In case you have not already seen it, Michael Miller attempts to create a scorecard on the alliance and provides some history on what is going on with the city. A good read.

http://www.toledofreepress.com/2008/10/03/blockbeiner-stacks-the-deck/

In addition to ordering three layoffs and shuffling seven employees into new positions yesterday, the Finkbeiner administration said it wants to use unspent 2008 capital improvement money to help balance the potential $7 million sinkhole in Toledo's general operating budget.

CINCINNATI - Officials want to see more green roofs on building tops in Cincinnati.

The City Council on Wednesday became the first in Ohio with a plan to channel grants and loans to residents and businesses to replace tar and shingles with vegetation.

Owners of the Southwyck Shopping Center in South Toledo and Finkbeiner administration officials are proceeding with plans to raze the vacant mall, but Perrysburg developer Larry Dillin will no longer be the go-between for the parties, after many months in that role.

In an attempt to bolster the controversial new entertainment venue created with taxpayer money at the city-owned Erie Street Market near downtown Toledo, the Finkbeiner administration unsuccessfully sought to attract promoters to book shows at the building.

Lamar Advertising Co. will move its regional sales and marketing office back to downtown Toledo after eight years on Matzinger Road, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner announced yesterday.

The company plans to move 21 employees to 116 South Erie St. and it will spend slightly more than $2 million to purchase and renovate the vacant building.

At a press conference today, Mayor Carty Finkbeiner spoke about the submission of an incentive package to City Council, aimed to keep HCR ManorCare in Toledo. For the last year-and-a-half, the City of Toledo's Department of Development and the Ohio Department of Development, have been working with Lt.

The Columbus Dispatch has a nice article on the presidential vote in the Toledo/Northwest Ohio area.

Article titled: Toledo-area presidential vote closely tied to jobs

Something of note:

TOLEDO (WTOL) - A building collapse in downtown Toledo has a 11th St. closed.

Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, one building was being torn down on 11th near Avondale and Moorish and fell into another building.

Is the new marina district and Southwyk in trouble given the banking environment? We will probably know in 6 months. What do you think?

Toledo-area consumers have paid some of the highest electricity rates in Ohio for long enough and consumers should demand a break, a Toledo City councilman and two Lucas County commissioners said yesterday.

The mountain-climbing, desert-traversing Jeep Wrangler could be headed on a new adventure: to an electric outlet.

Manufacturer Chrysler LLC yesterday unveiled an electric-drive prototype of the Toledo-built model intended to go 400 miles — about the distance between northwest Ohio and Knoxville, Tenn.— on eight gallons of gas.

Sports Illustrated's Keith Olberman has an article on Fred Merkle and how his mistake brought him shame and changed baseball. The article is titled "The Goof That Changed the Game" and is about baseball Yes, Fred was from Toledo. Read the great article at:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/09/23/merkle/

A teaser:

A downtown building which for years beginning in the 1930s was home to a pair of popular drug stores is reverting to use as a store.

Businessman Jacques "Jack" Eid and his wife, Rania, have spent nearly $300,000 to rehabilitate a 111-year-old building at Madison Avenue and North Michigan Avenue into space for a store and adjoining restaurant.

The United Way of Greater Toledo is moving forward with its project to build a new, smaller home on its downtown site.

The agency submitted its site plans yesterday to the city's plan commission.

Likely Toledo mayoral candidate Keith Wilkowski yesterday proposed putting a $5 million solar panel field atop the Dura Avenue Landfill that could generate electricity for the city while further energizing northwest Ohio's burgeoning solar energy industry.

A new species will soon be joining the Walleye in the fish tank.

The formation of a new arenafootball2 franchise that will begin play at the new downtown sports arena in April, 2010, is expected to be announced today at an 11 a.m. news conference.

Boelter considered moving Custom Deco and its 200 jobs from its location at 1343 Miami St. to Wisconsin, Mr. Finkbeiner said. The city's department of development assisted Custom Deco in packaging $1.75 million in acquisition financing, the mayor said.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080917/NEWS16/809179...

News from Councilman Tom Waniewski - Sept. 2008
Douglas Road Overpass Meeting

TOLEDO (WTOL) - The financial spreadsheet remains in the red for the city of Toledo and the mayor says he'll soon roll out his plan on how to balance the city's books.

"We know about increased costs, where the increased costs have come have come... fuel consumption, overtime and things like that," Finkbeiner says.

That can be the only explanation for his incredibly arrogant behavior last Friday when taking a tour of the United Way building downtown. The tour which has been taken by numerous politicians has always been open to media also. The mayor however under the guise of having an "honest discussion" about the building with the architect had his spokesperson ask the press to not go on the tour.