A recent Brookings Institution study found less “job sprawl” in Toledo than in many other major metro areas.
Eight of 10 jobs in the metropolitan area are within 10 miles of downtown, the study found, as reported in The Blade.
Toledo’s doing better than many other areas. Consider:
-In metro Detroit, 77 percent of jobs are more than 10 miles from downtown.

- In metro Chicago, the figure is 69 percent.
- And it is better than any of the Ohio cities studied, The Blade reported.
In Cleveland, just 16 percent of jobs were three miles …

Toledo’s Warehouse District is small – but growing.
Check out the story and multimedia slideshow from The Blade about this beautiful 1887 building that was transformed into a home:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090329/ART16/903270254
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By Angie Schmitt
Part of the impetus for Toledo Choose Local came from a University of Toledo study on the economic impact of locally owned bookstore verses a national chain.
Researchers found that money spent at the mom-and-pop bookseller would snowball as it traveled through the local economy, generating an overall economic return of about $5 million for the city. Meanwhile, the chain —with its distant headquarters and suppliers – would add only about $1 million to Toledo’s economic pie.
Twenty-three-year-old Stacy Jurich, a recent graduate of Ohio State University and a native of …

This site is intended to consolidate and develop news and information about post-industrial Great Lakes cities. It was developed by two former newspaper reporters with ties to Cleveland, Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio and Erie and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We’ve noted that there is a lot of good information about Rust Belt issues coming from blogs and the mainstream media. We hope to sort out the good stuff and summarize it for problem solvers and concerned citizens from Buffalo to St. Louis.
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