Gone are tracts of barren land, piles of broken asphalt, and noisy bulldozers and dump trucks.

Dozens of residents came out Friday to celebrate the end of the Broadway Street reconstruction.

“People of this community are amazing, and they deserve to have this beautiful road with the beautiful sculptures,” Sarah Bennett, a Toledo teacher, said as she took a minute from volunteering at a face-painting station for a South Toledo block party celebrating the project’s completion.

The reconstructed Broadway Street corridor now features a new road, a crosswalk, and painted sculptures. The three 12-foot sculptures include motifs of the monarch butterfly, a metaphor for migration.

“The project is a testament to the community,” Ms. Bennett said. “And I’m so glad that the buildings and the compan

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