The Arts Commission, on behalf of the City of Toledo's Art in Public Places Program, received a planning grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to assist in the funding of this program. This was utilized to have each listed gateway assessed and evaluated by both a professional public artist and a landscape architect and develop a strategic approach for project implementation. Gateway sites, proposed in part in the Toledo 20/20 Plan, are located at:

1. Adams and Ashland
2. Summit and Cherry
3. Cherry and Spielbusch
4. Washington and 11th
5. Anthony Wayne Trail/Erie/LaFayette
6. Summit and Clayton
7. Dorr, Washington and 17th
8. Monroe and Collingwood

Based upon this planning grant, we were able to obtain the consultancy of Mark Robbins, public artist, former Director of Design for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and current Dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture and Charles Waldheim, Dean of Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto, who’s work has focused on post industrial great lakes cities. Through a series of site visits, committee meetings and meetings with various city and community members the expertise of the consultancy was used to create the artNET report, a plan detailing the implementation approach for these sites and others in Toledo.

A website dedicated to this initiative is in the process of being completed. Please visit ArtNet for more information.