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R O A R Renascence Ottawa Area Residences The Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking Ceremonies and formal announcement of the ROAR Project were held August 21, 2000 at 3159 Glenwood Avenue, a vacant parcel which will be the future site of at least two, and perhaps three, of the ROAR Project's fifty homes. The first of the homes should be completed before the end of the year with all of the homes projected to be completed by next summer.


     Among those taking part in the groundbreaking were, standing, from l. to r., Kathleen Kovacs, Executive Director of Neighborhoods In Partnership, Hugh Grefe, Senior Program Director of Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Lee Dunn, President of Charter Bank, George Limbert, President of Partnership Equities, Inc., and, Ben Tallerico, Executive Director of Ottawa Community Development Corporation.
      Seated, from l. to r. are Charlene Mockensturm, Housing Administrator for the City of Toledo Department of Neighborhoods, 1st District Councilman Wilma Brown, and 4th District Councilman Edna Brown.






     Jim Carswell, Vice-Chairman and CEO of The Wallick Companies.



     Lee Dunn, President of Charter One Bank.



     Edna Brown, Fourth District Councilman.





     Carter Johnson, President of NIP's Board of Directors, on the far left, and Amanda Coplan of the National Equity Fund, second from right, join in the groundbreaking. The Wallick Companies, who are also partners in the project and will be doing construction as well as property management for the ROAR project, provided the gold shovels and hard hats.

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