The University of Toledo Gateway: Project animation

The University of Toledo Foundation is leading a team of private investors to secure tenants for a series of stores at the corner ofDorr Street and Secor Road in the space currently occupied by the former Taco Bell and PNC Bank. This is an artist's rendering of that project.

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[dgilles23]

this is obviously an attempt in making the area safer to attract more students. I think it is a fantastic idea. How else are we going to make it a safer neighborhood unless we clean up the area with some fresh new businesses which also provide more jobs.

[AghMotherland]

@tonyk212000 I don't see why it matters if someone at some time died there.

They need to increase parking if they build this, Rocket Hall is the only place on campus where you can get a parking place at least some of the time. Adding shops will increase the strain on UT's already horrible parking capacity. I don't see how adding Barnes & Noble (who are going bankrupt) as a third place on campus where I am charged outrageously for books and a "rooket subs" is going to make the campus any better

[runtol7]

I am soo excited for this :)

[runtol7]

@AghMotherland Barnes & Nobel is not going bankrupt. You are thinking of Borders.

[brettyalphaomega]

I like that they're trying to give our campus a clean feel. Sadly though, Barnes and Noble is a TERRIBLE idea. We already have 2 bookstores and Barnes and Noble is going bankrupt.

[IrishInColumbus]

@tonyk212000

False and equally ignorant. The more people that are present, the less of a chance that crime like that will happen.

[IrishInColumbus]

More on the parking: I think they should knock down those ugly-as-freak brick dorms on the northwest part of campus and build a parking garage there. Something like six stories, because the parking situation is horrendous until you get to the point of the semester where the kids stop going to class.

[IrishInColumbus]

As an urban planning student who left UT for OSU, I think this is awesome. It's a great way to build a definitive gateway for campus. What is there now is a joke, a Taco Bell (where I was once jumped by two of the locals on my 20th bday haha) and a bank? Whoopie. This will go a long way towards giving UT students something that actually feels like a college town.

I also get the parking situation--it does suck. But in my opinion that needs to happen in another spot of campus, not the gateway....

[ACCESSLab]

They need to use this space to build another parking garage. UT's campus isn't very big for the amount of students/buildings and I think they'll find this space could have been utilized much better than bringing another empty shopping plaza in. Did we not learn anything from Dorr St. development? It sat empty for years. Now, there are some shops in it, but nothing useful or exciting. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea, but the location is all wrong. It needs to be off campus - across the street

[asa31191]

@bigbennyt09 They're shooting for it to be done by 2012.. They can start as soon as they have 80% of the space filled by committed businesses.

[bradwilson45]

@AghMotherland

Actually these buildings won't take away from any parking whatsoever if you look at where they are located. People won't be taking up parking spots that wouldn't normally be...you still would need a parking pass to park on campus behind it. I agree that it is mostly to attract more students, as most universities of our size or larger have this kind of thing.