Online dashboard puts Toledo development opportunities a click away
Posted By: Toledo Blade on July 30, 2026. For more information, please click here to read the source article.
These days, you can shop online for just about anything, but local leaders asked: What if you could shop online for developable land?
The city of Toledo and Lucas County hope their new Public Land Opportunities Dashboard will make that possible.
“Everyone in this world is very used to online shopping,” said David Mann, the president and CEO of the Lucas County Land Bank. “This is probably a little bit more complex than that, but it was clear that if we had a map that people could use at their own pace … it would show them where those opportunities existed, that they would have a better start to actually work with us to see that happen.”
When users visit the dashboard, they are greeted with a map of the city of Toledo, dotted with yellow boxes. Each of those boxes represents a plot of public land owned by the city or the land bank.
Clicking on a yellow box brings up the site’s address, parcel number, zoning information, and acreage. It also includes a link to the property’s AREIS summary, which is an online database of public real estate information kept by the Lucas County Auditor’s Office.
“Citizens can visualize on a map where available parcels are located and easily view the official county real estate record for that parcel,” said Katie Moline, the Lucas County auditor.
Lucas County Treasurer Lindsay Webb, who is also chairman of the land bank’s board, said the map reflects the work the county and city are doing to use technology to reduce barriers to redevelopment, teasing that even more resources could be rolled out in the future.
“The goal is to make it easier to understand, to make it easier to use, and hopefully, by extension, easier for the people specifically in our community to identify opportunities for investment,” Ms. Webb said.
The zoning of available properties ranges from residential to industrial, and the map highlights just under 2,000 individual parcels. It is updated every night.
Mr. Mann said the map helps local residents better understand what opportunities are available to them.
“I think more often than not, what we were going to see with this is folks who are reaching out because they do want to think about urban farming, or they do want to think about that side lot, or they do have some goal of building a new house,” he said.
The land bank president said the map can be utilized by out-of-town investors as well, but the land bank will work with them to ensure the project is beneficial to the neighborhood.
Ms. Webb said there are many different avenues out-of-town investors use to buy properties in Toledo, but her office tracks those sales to see who is buying them up.
Mr. Mann emphasized that just because a prospective buyer identifies a parcel on the map and comes to the land bank, it won’t be sold to the buyer immediately.
“You have to demonstrate that you are current on your taxes, that you are compliant with the building and property maintenance code, that you have a sustainable plan for the property,” he said.
Although the redevelopment opportunities are endless, Mr. Mann said he hopes the market will take advantage of the transparent information and create projects that benefit the community.
To view the dashboard visit lucascountylandbank.org and click on public land opportunities.
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