Toledo, Ohio retail and economic collapse continues in 2011 with no end in sight.

[bweiserkob]

i remember going to Jagels to dance when i was in jr high waaaaaaaay back when

[njs300800]

I live right down the street from that plaza, the ugly green building used to be a farmer jack and then turned into a food basic. Now its a cedar creek church which just opened up last Saturday.

[loutswings]

well let's start by this. the idiots that live in toledo keep electing the same idiots into office. (the skeldons, kapturs, and carty) you wonder why it's a complete shit hole!!! i love the fact i moved out of that hell hole and my family is doing the same! Toledo all american shit hole!!!

[AirCargoHeavy]

This is the legacy of modern-day liberalism, economic ignorance and big government.

I used to love to sit near the Maumee River and watch the ship traffic. There's probably very little traffic anymore. I haven't been back to Toledo in five years. I miss it terribly.

Small cities are dying.

[Aquamelli]

The Grandma's Country Cookin restaurant is going to be re-opened as "Scrubs Pub+Grub"... its going to be ran by a not so trust worthy person. He was the owner of Rain and Plush night clubs

[Kousaburo]

Christ, what a miserable place.

[goldgrif]

@EndTimesNow2012 so true

[goldgrif]

In 1980 we had a president thatstarted busting unions, then we had his buddy greennspan that said free the banks and created junk, now we have a country that has been failing. when other rich countries did the american banking experiment they got into trouble as well. Banks and the economy need to be controlled, now we have the libertardians and other conservs screaming how great the companies are, companies too big to fail and how we need pure free enterprise, look how great it has been

[toledoh7]

This guy must have an ax to grind as he drove around Toledo Ohio and only recorded the areas that have struggled. Check out the toledoh7 channel to check some of the great places to live, work and play. How come we don't see any video of Maumee, Sylvania, Old Orchard, Ottawa Hills, River Road, Perrysburg, Rossford, etc?

[rjky1986]

Also I apologise about my earlier comment about asking if you guys had Kroger; I had not watched up through the latter part of the video before then, so my bad. But anyways, excellent video, and I agree; the economy is definitely not rebounding. It wasn't in January, and its not now in August.

[rjky1986]

Frisch's is also pretty common in the northern half of Kentucky [which is more midwestern than many people realize, lol], and especially in the Kentucky side of Metro Cincinnati and in Louisville, but its bad to see it going under in one of its staple territories [Ohio]. By the way, do you guys have Kroger up there? Just wondering because the former grocery store sort of had the design of one.

[goldgrif]

@rjky1986 I grew up in toledo, left in2001 now live in louisville

[CHUBsHERO]

u people have no faith in toledo at all wat about mike bell selling off the marina district u guyz do nothin procrastinate u guys dont do anything in the community 2 help at all but u guys wont to run ur mouth on how bad the city is its not the city its the people douche bags

[bodizone1]

the american dream is over because of way too much military spending, too much easy consumer and government credit, but most importatnly the outsourcing of manufacturing to india and china. The land of opportunity has seen its best days behind it

[EconCat88]

@bodizone1

You are correct. Unions and excessive gov't regulation also helped chase away employers.

[bodizone1]

@EconCat88 I agree 100%. I live in windsor, canada right across from detroit, and it has the highest unemployment in canada., the tool and die shops for the auto industry have bled tens of thousands of jobs in privately owned mold making plants, all outsourced to asia india and brazil. The top three employers used to be Chrysler, Ford, and GM, but both ford and gm have closed 4 plants here.

[SSNilsson]

@bodizone1 To much Military spending ? What planet are you on? Don't you realize that WW2 got us out of the Great Depression. Military spending is first on your list and that is the reason I'm attacking your post. I can agree on you saying the next few reasons, but not military spending.

[SSNilsson]

Its the same out here in Redlands Southern California Econcat88... you guys aren't the only ones. Our Strip malls look exactly the same right now.

[liljgoneman]

p.s. thanks econ, people NEED to see whats happening to middle class america. personally, i think these vids and especially the ones you have from detroit should be required viewing in 8th grade social studies classes nationwide. along with at least a semester on the bill of rights and the constitution!

[no1cp]

Econ, I don't know if you're still going to post anymore vids, but I'm fairly certain youtube lax'd their video size maximum limit and you can now post vids that are much longer than the previous 10 minute limit.

[TheWarbirdPhoenix]

It hasn't been relatively too long before the collapse of the shopping mall,already the shopping plaza is collapsing? This is some scary stuff.

[Jveigel7]

You have no idea what you are talking about! Stop posting these videos. Be proud of your city! Downtown Rocks as well as the University Area!

[EconCat88]

@Jveigel7

You are an idiot. Toledo is a dead town like it or not. I've lived here nearly 40 years. If the truth bothers you don't watch.

[liljgoneman]

@Jveigel7 video doesn't lie. the shithole you're so proud of is a disgrace. Literally 1 abandoned shack away from being detroit. deal with it, abandon it, repair it or pretend it isn't happening. i know a 3rd world city when i see one.

[jjiggydoc]

@Jveigel7 Downtown...really? If you like all the abandoned buildings sure lol. Or the over priced entertainment and living downtown. Or the fact our mayor is now selling our city assets to china lol. Get real, our city sucks, has sucked for a long time. Why people are moving out.

[iceXiceXindica]

@Jveigel7 he said nothing bad about toledo. I'm a native toledoan and love it very much, even though everyone talks badly about it. its an awesome place but we're having some BAD financial issues man

[IrishInColumbus]

It's the suburbs. This is happening everywhere across the world because suburban development is not economically sustainable. The way to succeed is a strong urban core (i.e. a downtown). Toledo's downtown is slowly but surely moving along--contrary to your other video.

[LibertarianBiker]

EconCat88, Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I'm from Austin, TX but lived in Toledo for a few years in the mid 90s. I lived at 3303 Heatherdowns and know this area well, my wife worked at MCO and I at LOF. When our division moved out of Toledo in '98, I got homesick and moved back to Austin. That Maumee river basin soil in Toledo is the best! I think all those empty buildings will soon be gone and the farms will come back. BTW the store at 8:49 used to be a clothing store.

[dcau1]

Those empty stores at 9:36 look like they're owned by the Australian retail property group Centro from the signs on the shop front? Very interesting video.

[TheSlorg]

I used to live in Toledo, now I'm in Sydney Australia. Had you kept walking past those shops in the back at the end of the video you would have seen my old apartment building. You're correct in that there used to be a Sears Hardware - I worked there in the paint department. I'm not sure what's still there as I've been gone for six years, but there used to be a McDonald's and Wendy's there as well.

[xxsircarlosxx]

Looks about the same way as the Mericle Mile..

[ntxjetta]

Born and raised in Toledo. When I was growing up Toledo was a lot different. Sad to see a city destroy itself. I saw the writing on the wall then and left after high school about 30 years ago.

[jmarsh5895]

Grew up in South Toledo. It is really sad looking now!! I moved in 1998 and my mother still lives up there but she is moving down by me IF she can sell her house in that hell hole of a city. No offense Toledo but it is sad there now!!

[no1cp]

p.s. Its crazy that the Kroger in Southland is still open. Theres another Kroger a mile east down the road (a new one, too) on the corner of Detroit/Glendale, and then a mile west theres another one, in the same plaza as the South End Grille (Glendale/Reynolds).

[no1cp]

Whats pathetic is I live about 5 miles (off of Heatherdowns) west of there and totally had no idea Big Boy's had been closed. Yikes. I know Peeler Music closed its music store, that kept me from even bothering to go to that area of town.

[thechevyscrounger]

my grandparents were born in toledo ,and lived there most of there life .i lived with them years ago ,i remember going to a mall called the woodville mall

[thaone10]

I am not sure what the poster is trying to convey in this video. Yes, Toledo has empty retail space, name ONE city that doesn't. Maybe he should drive by the Westfield Shopping Center and whip out the camera, not many empty spaces that way.

[EconCat88]

@Ilovemy2daughters

Did I say Wallmart was struggling on Glendale?

Facts? What facts have you posted here. You posted a GUESS about Dave & Busters. Even if D&B opened stores in Toledo, it would not be located in the area this video was recorded.

The Byrne/Glendale/Heatherdowns/Re­ynolds area has been steadily declining for 15-20 years. Get over it.

[atlantasbest]

Immigration is the answer to the economic crisis. Inject 12 million tax payers into our economic system and you will see a change in our Federal, State and local economic system. There are only two ways out of the crisis. Immigration or the North American Union. Baby boomers will destroy our economy in the next 30 to 40 years and that means we need more Tax payers on the system that baby boomers will leave begin when they retire. Swallow your pride people, divide and conquer. Do as the Romans!!

[liljgoneman]

@atlantasbest thats the dumbest idea i've ever heard. these 12 million new taxpayers you mention, where in the FUCK are they gonna find work in an economy with a real unemployment rate of nearly 20%? we need JOBS dumbass not more people fighting over non-existent ones.

[atlantasbest]

@liljgoneman People are taxpayers and consumers. Consumers consume goods and services. When consumers are out there spending money on services and paying taxes it creates revenue and JOBS!!!! Our manufacturing JOBS were outsourced to China thanks to greedy corporate America profiting from cheaper labor. Go and thank corporate scumbags for offshoring and outsourcing our work overseas. 12 million new consumers and taxpayers will increase our demand on services and create JOBS DUMB ASS IDIOT!!

[NowThePeople]

You should do a segment on Broadway street area and the Amtrak train station, tons of closed business on Broadway street:) That internet cafe you showed is closed now I think:( Also I can't believe the Lair Lounge is closed!

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[taznruby]

My daughter recently drove through Ohio, what you have shown is exactly what she saw. Thanks for uploading this. Keep us updated.

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[victorwasright]

when you're from NYC, seeing storefronts without steel gates is hard to believe.

[mb4553]

I so agree with everything that you are saying echo. I'm a local business owner that was closed by the city this past Dec due to a permit issue. The problem isnt just the ecomomy, because people are always going to spnd money. The question is where and with who... The 2 things that Toledoens lack is vision and ambition. Not everone of course, but we are a very lazy city.lol. I love your sight and i'm glad that there are more people like myself out there in the city. KEEP WATHING THIS MAN"S VIDEO

[jvolstad]

People don't need food in Toledo?

[puck30]

I just started working back in New Jersey and I was surprised by all the 'Privatley' owned Restaurants that have gone under, so you are so right about if they don't have the money they don't go out. Well good luck hope things get better with John Kasich

[mja2035]

Time to lower the rents so that people can try to get a business going.

3000 views, way to go EconCat88 !

[freemarket11]

Good video, I'm up north of you in Southeast suburbs of Michigan, and yeah what you filmed looks like everywhere around here too. Funny I haven't heard anything about Toledo in a couple years at least. The collapse is on-going and is becoming so noticeable, that I think even the sheep know it, but don't know what to do.

To me all this resembles a nation that is moving out of a house! It really looks like a ghost town now.

[TheTime4solutions]

Americans once were fiercely independent and would never consider running to the government to solve their problems. Today we are a sad lot of whinny cry babies looking for someone to hand out free pacifiers. Either we work for the government sucking directly off the teat or we work for a corporation who is paid by the government again sucking the government teat. A new government system called Kleptocracy

[LibertarianBiker]

@TheTime4solutions thank you for speaking the truth!

[TheTime4solutions]

@LibertarianBiker When the money is created, er digitized at no cost NOT by the government but by a Rothschild owned and controlled so called Bank, corporation. (Hide ownership and responsibility with corps) then this debt issue fiat money is lent at usury to the very government that could have created it without no compounding debt. THE NATIONAL DEBT IS A FALSE DEBT. Then they shift the false debt to a subsidiary China Rothschild central bank corp. Giving the illusion that USA owes china

[LibertarianBiker]

@TheTime4solutions I wish more people could or would see this. As for me, I'm done with it. I don't think it can be repaired. I'm ready for the Republic of Texas part II before Texas turns into another Detroit or Toledo. We should never have joined the union in the first place.

[TheTime4solutions]

@LibertarianBiker Texas is the front line of these evil sold out whore bastards. They desire a TTC trans Texas corridor, or as i call it RAPE ROADS, like they did in Germany the auto ban is a rape road used to steal the natural resources out of a country and transport them to a new location. Governor RIck Perry has attended the Bilderberg and is considered a traitor by many Texans he is a transplant shill. Texas is a brown state stolen er annexed by USA after the Texans defeated Mexico.

[dills2403]

ahhh its ok there gonna use all those empty stores as fema headquaters ...

[SidneyBou]

Thanks It would be nice if you made another like this about every 6 months maybe 3 months almost the same name like -2 or - 3 . Shows what politis is doing to the country News and TV doesn't do this they have local and national. Thanks again

And it would be nice if you date it year and month

[SidneyBou]

Thanks It would be nice if you made another like this about every 6 months maybe 3 months almost the same name like -2 or - 3 . Shows what politis is doing to the country News and TV doesn't do this they have local and national. Thanks again

[Vox863]

Maybe all those "Americans" out there that refuse to support American businesses in any way WOULD support filling these storefronts with Communists and Illegals? This would create diversity and show the Communists and Illegals that "we're" not haters? Communism enjoys a vast support network in America now.

[rushin2]

All these "commercial" properties should be utilized for homeless shelters...

[smasila]

The next leg down is very close. Just look at the lackluster performance of the stock markets and the value of the USD vs other currencies. Silver/gold is holding up well.

[TheTime4solutions]

@smasila the performance of the market is manipulated and controled, google the executive branch plung protection team. Not to mention that the counsel on forign markets within the federal reserve private corporation, they create the money out of thin air digitized and not accountable to anyone so to think they do not control the market would be niave. We see everything in a planned destruction except the market. Where they have complete corporate ownership.

[voidows]

The immenate collapse is a fact. Don't spend time on proving this. Better start making plans for your own survival.

The EXP (exponential factor) is unavoidable.

have a plan for the wurst case scenario. What harm does it do if you prepare yourself for disasters and in the end they don't come. No wurries then. But what if a disaster comes and you don't have yourself prepared???

[TheTime4solutions]

follow the money to find the truth. A private corporation creates the money digitized at no cost out of thin air. They loan the money at a compounded interest rate to their installed puppet government, thus creating a false debt, a creditor debtor relationship with the creditor the master and the debtor as the slave. Using this fictious debt as justification they then apply an extorted theft called tax a debt slave control vehicle. A debt slave population of immoral cowardly submitters.

[Aquamelli]

Once upon a time... this plaza was booming! this plaza began to go down as soon as convergence left for India. This is a shame really considering this part of Toledo is probably the better part of Toledo with the highest household income. Southwyck, Southland, the plaza on Heatherdowns and Reynolds, and many more establishments on Reynolds are all... dead

[goldgrif]

@Aquamelli yeah when reagan and his rich buddies realized that they could make more profit shipping jobs overseas

[TruthMovement330]

Hah, nail salons. My girlfriend could be deep in debt, broke as hell, and would still find a way to get her nails done for an exorbitant price.

[GRUMPY656799]

collapse....its everywhere if you are awake and looking!

[MrStrman]

This is what every city in America looks like. It is called a man made depression brought to you by a criminal Federal Reserve. This is what happens when less than 1% of the population gets to counterfeit money at the expense of all the rest of us. These banksters are a parasite on society.

[TheTime4solutions]

@MrStrman since the federal reserve bank corporation is a corporation, a non human entity, I submit to blame this entity is futile. I suggest that the responsible parties are the owner hence controler. We see a corp being owned by other corps the member banks creating an additional non human layer, But when we examine the owners of the member banks we see several families, then when we look at the families we see all trails lead to only one family name responsible for humanities enslavement.

[TheTime4solutions]

@MrStrman The FED began with approximately 300 people or banks that became owners (stockholders purchasing stock at $100 per share - the stock is not publicly traded) The FED banking system collects billions of dollars (Reference 8, 17) in interest annually and distributes the profits to

[TheTime4solutions]

@MrStrman its shareholders Rothschild Bank of London Warburg Bank of Hamburg Rothschild Bank of Berlin Lehman Brothers of New York Lazard Brothers of Paris Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy Goldman, Sachs of New York Warburg Bank of Amsterdam Chase Manhattan Bank of New York and the reality is all of these are owned by the same one family.

[johnu78]

300+ views, great job!!!

[EconCat88]

@johnu78

I don't know who linked it at another blog or site, but thanks whoever did that and I appreciate it. Nearly 1k views overnight.

[johnu78]

@EconCat88

I posted your video on whatreallyhappened com. That's where a good portion of the views came from. Keep up the good work and take care. -John

[woody188]

My mother and sister live in Toledo. Last summer we watched while the sheriff threw her neighbors out of their home up the block. I tell people it's like an election year where there are so many signs in the yards, except these signs are for sale and foreclosure signs instead of signs of candidates for office. Keep up the citizen reporting. It's the only way to get the truth of what is happening.

[EconCat88]

@woody188

Thanks woody. The city wants to spend millions building retail space while vacancies continue expanding across the city.

[gunyocir]

Nice Vid, I actually thought I might get pulled over for blowing all those stops!:D Not likely in that ghost town.

[johnu78]

The last 90 seconds is the best!

[johnu78]

Lots of grocery stores are shutting down, it's getting crazy!