Our history
Brownstone Village sits on the east side of Levis Commons, the master-planned community that Larry Dillin and the Dillin Corporation began developing on roughly 393 acres in Perrysburg in 1999. Formally named J. Preston Levis Commons, it became Northwest Ohio's first lifestyle center. The Town Center opened in the mid-2000s and was followed by apartments, rowhomes, offices, hotels and the Owens-Illinois headquarters that sits behind the retail blocks.
Dillin Homes turned to the residential edge of that plan next. The brownstones on Bostwick Road were built in the Perrysburg tradition the company described at the time as sophisticated comfort and convenience: attached single-family townhomes, several of them four stories, designed to look like the older streets they were named after. In March 2007 The Blade featured one of them as its Home of the Week.
The association itself begins in February 2006, when Dillin Homes, LLC and the first three lot owners made the Declaration of Covenants, Easements, Restrictions and Assessment Lien for Brownstone Village at Levis Commons, Plat I. It was recorded with the Wood County Recorder at Official Record 2633, page 63, then re-recorded at Official Record 2644, page 56 on March 3, 2006 to complete the execution. Articles of incorporation for Brownstone Village at Levis Commons Homeowners' Association, Inc., an Ohio nonprofit corporation, were filed with the Ohio Secretary of State on May 11, 2006.
The plat laid out eighteen lots plus Lot A, the interior drive lane that serves the garages. Lot A is the only roadway the association owns and maintains. Bostwick Road itself, the street the homes face, is a public street and not part of the association's property. Ten of the eighteen homes are paired, sharing a party wall and a common roof with the unit next door, which is why so much of the association's work, from insurance to the roof plan, is written around neighbors who share a structure.
The community bylaws were amended in 2023 to set a one-year minimum lease on any homes in the Brownstone Village.
Twenty years in, the association is doing what twenty-year-old communities do: repainting, planning a collective roof replacement, and starting a ten-year capital plan for irrigation, concrete, curbs and pavement.
How we got here
- 1999
Dillin Corporation begins the Levis Commons master plan on roughly 393 acres in Perrysburg.
- 2006
Dillin Homes records the Declaration for Brownstone Village at Levis Commons, Plat I. The association is incorporated in May.
- 2007
The Blade features a Dillin Homes brownstone on Bostwick Road as its Home of the Week.
- 2023
Owners record an amendment: one-year minimum leases, a $100 per day leasing violation assessment, and no more mandatory arbitration.
- 2025
Owners approve a roof plan funded by three annual assessments.
- 2026
Association records are consolidated into one shared Google Drive and opened to owners through this site.
What the association does
The association maintains the common facilities: the interior drive lane (Lot A), the entry landscaping and signage, the sprinklers, lawn care and snow removal. Bostwick Road is a public street and is not one of them. It carries insurance on the common property, collects one equal assessment from each of the eighteen lots, and enforces the Declaration. Everything else, including each home's exterior and roof, belongs to the owner, subject to architectural approval.
Three directors serve staggered three-year terms, with one seat elected at each annual meeting. The directors appoint the officers. Two standing committees do most of the hands-on work: Architectural, and Landscape and Snow.