Business View Magazine May 2023

124 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 5 “It was definitely a huge challenge, but they stepped up to the plate,” he says. “They worked very hard and made sure their staff was ready to go when the material was ready. The partnership on the whole project was really pretty awesome.” The newly renovated center opened its doors for the first time in September and has had a steady stream of events coming through and booking into the future. The events range from association gatherings to corporate events. The Ohio Library Association held the first event since the reopening, and the center will soon host a boat supply group event called Land and Sea in November. Botswick-Braun Hardware, SoFo Foods, and the Jehovah’s Witnesses are also booked in for upcoming events. “There’s just a lot of great things happening,” Miller says. “We’re also doing a lot of local business, with fundraisers and different events that people haven’t been able to utilize at our facility in the past.” So far, clients have been impressed. The facility has already seen a strong contingent of groups that are planning to come back and have booked for the future. “We’ve had some very strong responses and some very pleased clients that have come into the facility,” Miller says. “So whether they are booked every year, every two years, every three years, or every four years, our goal is to get on that rotation. “Toledo has not typically been on a lot of rotations around the state of Ohio. They typically rotate between Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, sometimes Dayton, sometimes Sandusky, and Toledo was kind of left out a little bit and frankly, it was because some of our facilities were not as up-to-date as they probably should have been. But now we are getting into those rotations.” Being on that rotation will have a big impact on the City of Toledo and the Lucas County area in general. The uptick in events will bring more dollars to the city, which has also been undergoing a resurgence of its own recently, Miller says.