The Cuyahoga Land Bank partnered with the City of East Cleveland to demolish 27 apartment buildings and 31 homes that have long stood vacant and abandoned, in addition to deconstruction on five more such apartment buildings.  The project cost approximately… Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank partnered with the City of East Cleveland to demolish 27 apartment buildings and 31 homes that have long stood vacant and abandoned, in addition to deconstruction on five more such apartment buildings.  The project cost approximately… Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank partnered with the City of East Cleveland to demolish 27 apartment buildings and 31 homes that have long stood vacant and abandoned, in addition to deconstruction on five more such apartment buildings.  The project cost approximately… Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank partnered with the City of East Cleveland to demolish 27 apartment buildings and 31 homes that have long stood vacant and abandoned, in addition to deconstruction on five more such apartment buildings.  The project cost approximately… Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank partnered with the City of East Cleveland to demolish 27 apartment buildings and 31 homes that have long stood vacant and abandoned, in addition to deconstruction on five more such apartment buildings.  The project cost approximately… Read more ›

The issue: Foreclosure crisis Our view: Some Stark organization needs to lead exploration of possibilities Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are aggressively trying to halt the housing blight that the foreclosure crisis has accelerated. As The Rep explained in a story… Read more ›

Former Cuyahoga County Treasurer Jim Rokakis spoke to the Lake County Mayors and City Managers Association Monday about the possibility of creating a County Land Bank to help deal with foreclosed and abandoned properties. Rokakis is now director of the… Read more ›

Flint, Mich., was in steep decline when Dan Kildee was elected Genesee County treasurer 14 years ago. His hometown’s days as a thriving, broad-shouldered factory town were gone. Most plants were shuttered or running well below capacity. Some 60,000 General… Read more ›

CHEERS . . . to the hope being provided East Cleveland by a $900,000 federal demolition project, administered by the Cuyahoga County land bank, that will revitalize and reuse abandoned properties. The 32 apartment buildings and 31 single-family homes coming… Read more ›

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cuyahoga Land Bank will demolish 60 dwellings in East Cleveland beginning Wednesday, September 14. 24 vacant apartment buildings and 31 abandoned houses will be knocked down. Another five units will be deconstructed to clear way… Read more ›

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — The first tug at the dilapidated building by the trio of excavators  brought a “ooh” from the crowd of officials and neighbors. The first crash of bricks, wood and glass brought a cheer. The demolition of… Read more ›

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio – Just after 9 a.m. Wednesday, crews running cranes took over Hartshorn Road in East Cleveland. They tore down abandoned apartments and homes in an effort to stop crime and clean up what was once a very… Read more ›

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — Mayor Gary Norton Jr. seemed almost giddy Wednesday about the destruction in his city. And for good reason, he said. Dozens of decaying apartment buildings and homes – long abandoned and boarded-up – were about to… Read more ›

EAST CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The city of East Cleveland cleared the way for some new development by bulldozing some old eyesores. The city will demo 24 apartment buildings and 31 single family homes, which are vacant and abandoned in order to create… Read more ›

When the housing bubble popped in 2009, it left many American communities with foreclosed and vacant homes and businesses. The American Jobs Act would help restore thousands of these abandoned properties and put construction workers back to work in the… Read more ›

A large swath of vacant properties in economically depressed East Cleveland will be demolished and hopefully replaced with new development. Tomorrow  the Cuyahoga County Land Bank will begin tearing down a cluster of 24 apartment buildings and 31 houses.  Land… Read more ›

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — Apartments in East Cleveland are the opening salvo in a push to blur lines between the region’s poorest city and the humming employment hub next door. The Finch Group and University Circle Inc. are planning a… Read more ›

It has been a long time since a private developer has taken a serious look at East Cleveland. But thanks to a happy confluence of events, incentives and personalities, that is about to change. The Finch Group — a Florida-based… Read more ›

The housing crisis has meant millions of prospective homebuyers have been shut out of their dreams of owning a home. None were more disappointed than those 150 to 200 families participating in the nationally recognized Lease Purchase program, sponsored by… Read more ›

Sometimes, a family’s search for their dream home brings them to another family’s dream, from another time. For Derek and Jennifer Clayton, the fantasy started nearly two centuries ago, in 1836. That was the year Asa Upson and his wife,… Read more ›

The Cuyahoga Land Bank has recently been featured in the national press for our work capturing foreclosed, vacant properties and quickly turning that land back to productive use. This summer, we established partnerships with Wells Fargo and Bank of America,… Read more ›