Article: Owens-Illinois leaving Toledo for Perrysburg.

Byline: Homer Brickey

May 6--Its name has been part of Toledo for more than a century, but its leader for a year has decided to move Owens-Illinois Inc. to the suburbs.

O-I, Toledo's second-largest company and the world's largest glass-container manufacturer, said yesterday it would give up its high-rise home for the last 24 years to move next year to a campus-style site it owns in Levis Development Park in Perrysburg.

The move, a sharp psychological blow to downtown Toledo, was attributed, among other factors, to a desire to have a bigger cluster of O-I employees, to have a campus atmosphere rather than an office tower, and to shed what the ...

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