{"id":19601,"date":"2026-06-04T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=19601"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:04:00","slug":"collingwood-green-living-opens-phase-iv-of-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/collingwood-green-living-opens-phase-iv-of-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Collingwood Green Living Opens \u2013 Phase IV of the Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rosalyn Clemens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/em><\/p>\n

Toledo area elected officials, financial institution representatives and Lucas Metropolitan Housing staff celebrated the grand opening of a transformative $29 million Collingwood Green Living housing development on Thursday, May 28.<\/p>\n

The new housing development will provide senior citizens with 75 affordable housing units and complete LMH\u2019s multiphase Collingwood Green community begun in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cOlder adults can live in dignity with freedom and safety,\u201d said Alisha Gant, chair of the LMH board as she opened the dedication.<\/p>\n

The drive to add Collingwood Green Living to Toledo\u2019s housing stock is part of an effort to increase affordable housing for all Americans, but most particularly for seniors who are especially challenged by the lack of such housing.<\/p>\n

According to Rosalyn Clemens, director of the Toledo Department of Housing and Neighborhood Sustainability, Toledo has a shortage of about 10,000 affordable housing units. The city held a Fundraising and Housing Strategy meeting in 2021 to create plans to address the shortage and committed to directing funds to build 500 such units. With the completion of Colingwood Green Living, the city is about 60 percent towards accomplishing that goal, she said.<\/p>\n

The city has relied thus far on American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to invest in the housing market \u2013 funds that must be spent by December 2026.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThis is a historic day,\u201d said Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken who noted that more than half of the seniors in Lucas County spend upwards of 50 percent of their income on housing \u2013 the goal for s typical household is no more than 30 percent. Now, added Lisa Sobecki, chair of the Board of Lucas County Commissioner, seniors will be able \u201cto live, play and retire with a high quality of living at an affordable price.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collingwood Green Living is part of Phase IV of the overall Collingwood Green project which has now completed nearly 300 units of housing. Phase I is a 65-unit midrise building which opened at Division Street and Belmont Avenue for senior 55 years and older in 2013. Phase II added 68 colorful town house units for families in 2015. Phase III, completed in 2020, added another 55 modern townhomes.<\/p>\n

The neighborhood is designed to be sustainable, LEED-certified and features a green space (a central 20 acre site which includes a 7.5 acre park with community gardens and a gazebo); a community resource center and near the Collingwood Arts Center.<\/p>\n

In addition to the city and county ARPA funds, Collingwood Green Living also received a $5.9 Section 202 Capital Advance award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n

Other contributions came from the National Church Residences and tax credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Truth Staff Toledo area elected officials, financial institution representatives and Lucas Metropolitan Housing staff celebrated the grand opening of a transformative $29 million Collingwood Green Living housing development on Thursday, May 28. The new housing development will provide senior citizens with 75 affordable housing units and complete LMH\u2019s multiphase Collingwood Green community begun in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,252,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[350],"class_list":["post-19601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-politics","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19606,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601\/revisions\/19606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19601"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}