Walking by a construction site on Water Street in Toledo’s historic Vistula District near downtown, it’s hard not to notice a colorful mural on the downtown-facing wall of a hangar-like building.
The 140-foot-long, 25-foot-tall art piece with a side view of the Maumee River is a harbinger of a soon-to-be-unveiled $4-million pickleball and entertainment center projected by the owners to bring in at least 400,000 visitors annually.
“The big thing was the energy,” Dean Davis, the Toledo artist who created the mural, said about the idea behind the art piece. “I wanted to show, like, this momentum of energy in it. But I also wanted to capture an element of the Vistula District in it.”…