Brownstones on Dorr Street project - August 2008 update

It's been two years to the day since Toledo politicians announced plans for the Brownstones on Dorr project; a cluster of townhouses and condos that were supposed to help revitalize an inner city neighborhood. Today, there's nothing on the site but a bunch of weeds.

Neighbors feel like they were lied to. Last year, Councilwoman Wilma Brown told us funding has been approved for the project. But that apparently wasn't the case. At least one qualified buyer has to agree to move into the Borwnstones before the banks will approve the loan. And, so far, that hasn't happened.

"I've built about 22-thousand residential units in 26-states in the last 40-years," developer Jackson McDaniel says. "I spent more time and energy on these six units than I have spent on any hundred unit project that I've ever done".

Brown refused to comment on camera. The mayor, meanwhile, was not available for comment. But despite the 270-thousand tax dollars allocated for the project, his spokeswoman insists, the Brownstones are "not our project."