Portside Festival Marketplace

From the authors' mapverbatim, Dunham-Jones and Williamson, 2021

OH, Toledo: Portside Festival Marketplace/The Imagination Station, 1997
• Reinhabitation: science museum

Nowderived from authors' map (retrofit year present)

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
What is there now	Reinhabitation: science museumauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	1997authors' map reported

Links out22 links from ids on this record

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Official records (5)

government and regulatory records for this site, built from ids on the record

• Census tract 39095002800 profile (data.census.gov)from data.census.gov
• Census tract 39095002800 on Census Reporterfrom censusreporter.org
• Lucas County (39095) profile (data.census.gov)from data.census.gov
• FEMA flood map (NFHL) at this point (search)from msc.fema.gov
• EPA ECHO facilities within 1 milefrom echo.epa.gov

Reference (3)

encyclopedic and research references

• Wikimedia Commons photos within 500 mfrom commons.wikimedia.org
• Retrofitting Suburbia (book site)from retrofittingsuburbia.com
• Toledo, Ohio on Wikipediafrom en.wikipedia.org

Place (8)

map and street views by coordinates

• Google Mapsfrom google.com
• Street Viewfrom google.com
• Bing Mapsfrom bing.com
• Apple Mapsfrom maps.apple.com
• OpenStreetMapfrom openstreetmap.org
• Walk Score at this pointfrom walkscore.com
• Transitland mapfrom transit.land
• USGS National Mapfrom apps.nationalmap.gov

Market (3)

listings and owner pages; commercial, so search engines are told not to follow

• LoopNet: for sale in Toledo, OH (search)from city search
• The site's own websitefrom imaginationstationtoledo.org
• DeadMalls.com · Portside Festival Marketplacefrom deadmalls.com

News (3)

news searches and archived pages

• Google News: “Portside Festival Marketplace” (search)from name search
• Bing News: “Portside Festival Marketplace” (search)from name search
• Wayback Machine · www.imaginationstationtoledo.org (2009–2026)from web.archive.org

History and original factsauthors' map

Now called / also known as	The Imagination Station
County	Lucas County
Census division	3 · East North Central

Not yet recorded: acres, GLA, year opened, original developer. Know it? Tell us.

Planningresearch and extraction

No zoning change, subsidy or policy tool recorded for this site.

Site contextpublic APIs, see origins; tract and county figures sit at different geographies and are not directly comparable

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	17: ALEXANDER & CO; CORPORATE FLEET; FIRST ENERGY TOLEDO EDISON CO; HANSEN-MUELLER TOLEDO ELEVATOR; OHIO BUILDING AUTHORITYEPA FRS
Census tract 39095002800	1,422 people, 3,003 per sq mi; median gross rent $850; 98% renters; 14.3% vacant units; 0.6% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 18.2 of 20; 137 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 134 m; land-use mix 0.69; 55,984 jobs within 45 min by car, 5,635 by transit; 50% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	5 of 6 daily needs: 1 grocers, 2 schools, 40 parks or playgrounds, 0 health, 9 civic, 44 food and drink; 88 cycleway segments, 184 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	yes, tract 39095002800 (rural)HUD
National Register places within 500 m	8: Spitzer Building; Trinity Episcopal Church; Secor Hotel; Brand, R., and CompanyNPS
Housing permits, Lucas County (OH), 2024	122 units in 5+ unit buildings, 4 in 2–4, 287 single-family; 2023: 336 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.57; socioeconomic 0.74; housing and transport 0.78; 52% below 150% of poverty; 44% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	2 within 10 km, 3 within 25 km: Woodville Mall (7.9 km); North Towne Square (8.2 km)computed
Overture Maps	place Imagination Station (science_museum, confidence 0.99, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 5,425 m², 13.479510307312012 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.imaginationstationtoledo.org (alive); archived 2009–2026 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Tract change 2013–2023	population +18% (1,208 → 1,422); median income n/a; renters 100% → 98%; median home value n/aCensus ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively low overall (score 29.7); expected annual loss $956,971; community resilience very highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	11 LIHTC properties, 1,233 units: Greenbelt Apts (176 units); Madonna Homes (171 units); Commodore Perry Apts (156 units)HUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	20,692 jobs in 1,350 establishments; average annual pay $37,546; employment location quotient 1.07; employment -1.6% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	13,486 jobs; 48 in retail trade, 464 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 39095002800)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 36th income percentile as adults; 5.1% incarcerated at the 2010 count (88 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; poverty rate 52.8%; median family income $25,583; 409 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Toledo City School District (PK-12); 11 public schools within 1 mile: Toledo School For The Arts; Glass City Academy; Maritime Academy of Toledo The; L. Hollingworth School for Talented and GiftedNCES EDGE
Elevation	587 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	119 county-logged events: 85 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado; $15,976,000 property damage reported; 1 direct deaths; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 43604, 2026-09	median list price $96,175 (+28.5% on the year); 11 active listings; median 36 days on market; 7% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	1,333 establishments (-8%); 22,356 jobs (-3%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $176,069 (+5% 1 yr, +32% 5 yr); typical rent $1,198/mo (+6% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	16,001 vehicles a day on CHERRY ST (principal arterial, 2 lanes); 36 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Elsewhere on the websearch links

Retail history: Portside Festival Marketplace on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

Search images: Google · Bing · Commons · references: ULI case studies · Google Scholar

Multifamily screen0 points · research only

• retrofit already built

Inputs: record fields (size, status) and county Census ACS 2018–2023 figures (growth, rent). How the points work. Not a recommendation.

Timelinesources below

1. 1997 Retrofit: reinhabit

Sources1 sources

• Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20