Like Darren Moore, who contributed in the Jan. 18 Forum, I moved here (in my case, in the 1980s) thinking Toledo was on the cusp of some momentous economic turnaround. I wasn’t alone: Citing the city’s downtown rebuilding efforts, the prominent authors Neal Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom in 1983 gushed that we were “in transformation from down-at-the-heels to modern steel-and-glass renewal.” Regrettably, no meaningful capital investment followed, and we continue to languish at or near the bottom in almost every national economic and quality-of-life ranking.
