Retail bubbling in Sylvania area

Published: Thursday, 8/7/2014 - Updated: 3 hours ago

NATALIE TRUSSO CAFARELLO BLADE STAFF WRITER

Small retail plazas are or soon will be popping up on major roads in Sylvania and Sylvania Township.

Next year, a new mini-plaza is planned at Timberstone Center on Sylvania Avenue at King Road in the city. The center has a Kroger as an anchor tenant.

Joe Swolsky, a broker for Essex Realty in Perrysburg, said a 10,000-square-foot building will be built by a partnership of several private investors. The mini-plaza would be built near Kroger gas station and close to the Sylvania Avenue. It would house retail stores, such as a hair or nail salon.

We put up a sign to see who was interested and weve had an unbelievable amount of tenants interested in that space, he said.

He said the mini-plaza at 7545 Sylvania Ave. would accommodate four small businesses, but said no tenants have been signed.

Soon, residents on the western edge of the township will have a new small grocery.

At 8675 W. Central Ave., near Shetland Road, owners have displayed the sign that the Sylvania Market is coming soon. Township officials received a liquor permit request for the space that was submitted by Hisham Zrien, owner of Table Forty-4 in downtown Toledo. Township Administrator John Zeitler said the space once housed a consignment shop and motorcycle shop.

The empty building is on about 3 acres zoned as commercial and is mainly undeveloped. On the site, next to the building is a sign by Justin Lorenzen, of Toledos Lorenzen Realty, which says his client wants to develop the land for retail use.

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Retail bubbling in Sylvania area