OH: TARTA Moves Forward with Plans to Convert Former Goodwill Building

April 6, 2018
The Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority plans to take architects through the former Goodwill building at Huron and Cherry streets next week after closing on the building’s purchase last week.

The Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority plans to take architects through the former Goodwill building at Huron and Cherry streets next week after closing on the building’s purchase last week.

TARTA plans to convert the 66,000-square-foot building at 612 N. Huron to a downtown bus hub. The $1.5 million purchase price is based on an appraisal TARTA obtained after Goodwill shut down its thrift store there and moved its downtown offices late last year to the former Brooks Insurance building on Madison Avenue.

James Gee, the transit authority’s general manager, told the agency’s board of trustees Thursday morning he has retained Stough & Stough, a Sylvania-based architecture firm, to develop plans for remodeling the building.

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