Occupying a former gas station on the southeast corner of Monroe Street and Rosedale Avenue, the property backs up to Bluff Street Village.
Opening Fall 2022
Toledo Tool Library
Lending area residents the tools needed for maintaining or improving their homes, gardens, or yards.

Bluff Street Village organizers are busy turning a nearby vacant building into a local tool lending library.
On track for completion this autumn, the building’s renovation will add to the neighborhood’s redevelopment efforts.
Empowering residents to reshape their communities.
Toledo Tool Library joins the growing network of “libraries of things” around the country. Tool libraries provide area residents access to equipment and training while helping to reduce unnecessary consumption.

Empowering residents to reshape their communities.
Toledo Tool Library joins the growing network of “libraries of things” around the country. Tool libraries provide low-income residents access to equipment and training while helping to reduce unnecessary consumption.
100 Hometowns
Bluff Street Organizers used funds from a $200,000 grant awarded by Lowe’s to purchase and renovate the vacant building. Bluff Street Village is one of 100 community impact projects that are the cornerstone of the 100 Hometowns initiative that Lowe’s created.
Learn MoreYou Can Help
We gratefully accept donations of new or gently used tools—everything from screwdrivers and hammers to wheelbarrows and electric drills.