TOLEDO, Ohio — It's a project meant to revitalize the downtown Toledo riverfront and it's moving along with major progress.
The Glass City Riverwalk project will run five miles on both sides of the river from the Veterans Glass City Skyway Bridge to the High Level Bridge.
Construction crews are working in a space across from the former International Park and the International Cove area.
"It is a five-mile on both sides of the river bridge to bridge project," Jennifer Van Horn, chief planning and construction officer with Metroparks Toledo said. "So you go all the way from the Anthony Wayne Bridge to the Martin Luther King Bridge to the Craig Street Bridge, both sides connecting six neighborhoods here in Toledo."
Van Horn said there will be $250 million invested into the entire project. The funding comes from various sources including the public, grants and the levy that passed in 2020 which accounts for $120 million of it.
"We want to have places that people want to visit, they want to come, they want to live down here," Van Horn said. "And that's really our focus is that being an economic driver for all of Toledo."
Dave Zenk, the executive director for Metroparks Toledo said the hope for this project is to improve the overall vibe and infrastructure of the downtown riverfront.
"We're really excited. We think this is one of the most exciting projects going on in northwest Ohio today," Zenk said. "And it's really about, at the end of the day, at the end of this project, fundamentally changing the regional identity of northwest Ohio by activating and improving a region's most significant asset, which is our downtown riverfront."
Zenk said that over 300 acres of renovated, activated green space will be occupied for this project.
"When this is all said and done, our aspiration is to have this truly be the number one destination in northwest Ohio and ultimately become the country's best riverwalk," Zenk said.
This project is expected to be completed in the spring of 2026.