Glass City Metropark opens second part of Toledo riverfront transformation project

  • Grosbeak play tower reaches a height of 41 feet.
    Grosbeak play tower reaches a height of 41 feet.
  • Metroparks Toledo board President, Scott Savage, invites children to join the park board commissioners in flipping a switch and “turning on” the new park.
    Metroparks Toledo board President, Scott Savage, invites children to join the park board commissioners in flipping a switch and “turning on” the new park.
  • The Garden restaurant inside Market Hall.
    The Garden restaurant inside Market Hall.
The opening of Glass City Metropark’s second phase achieved a longstanding goal of the community– to transform a riverfront brownfield between Front Street and the Maumee River into a premier waterfront park. On June 9, Metroparks Toledo celebrated the completion of this phase and the first section of Glass City Riverwalk, which will eventually extend five miles on both sides of the river. “I…

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