$1.3 WILL GET YOU
In the 1970s, John Denver let us have it with “Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio.” Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio, is like being nowhere at all All through the day how the hours rush by You sit in the park and you watch the grass die Ah, but after the sunset, the dusk and the twilight When shadows of night start to fall They roll back the sidewalks precisely at 10 And people who live there are not seen again It wasn’t true – John Denver failed to check the bowling alleys. But, happily, 40 years later, we’re looking for a new song. The lyrics will have to rhyme with home run and health care. That’s where the magic is happening downtown today. As with so many cities of our size, over the past four decades our central business district went from bustling mini-metropolis to a wasteland with the diaspora of offices and amenities. But the problem wasn’t just a geographical shift in economics. Politics also played a part. When a meteor strikes, the massive impact turns the rock projectile into a tsunami of hot gases that obliterates everything from the inside outwards. Toledo had a slow meteor strike of city government in the 1970s, which created a storm of heated gases with a similar effect on downtown. Then in the ‘80s, benighted city planners joined incompetent politicos in forgetting the best thing about Toledo... A river runs through it, and an almost unbroken and impenetrable line of buildings was erected along the riverfront.
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Toledo, OH ASKING PRICE :
$134,900 3 beds, 3 baths, 2,316 sqft, 0.39 acres lot size
Cupertino, CA ASKING PRICE $1,399,999 3 beds, 2 baths, 1,454 sqft, .13 acres lot size
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36 June 2018
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