BEREA — The community is invited to help build a community garden Saturday. Volunteers are needed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the new garden that will be located on vacant property at 422 Runn Street. The land is… Read more ›
CLEVELAND – Eleanor French first moved to the Sylvia apartment building at 6010 Franklin Blvd., on Cleveland’s near-west side, in 1945. NewsChannel5 went with her as she recently toured her newly renovated, lifelong home. According to the Detroit Shoreway Community… Read more ›
After rehabbing five long-vacant homes as part of the City’s Green Neighborhood Initiative, South Euclid just might be the greenest place in Greater Cleveland. Four of the homes have been sold; the fifth, on Wilmington Road, has been vacant for… Read more ›
DOWNTOWN AKRON — Summit County is on its way to creating a land bank that will serve as a way to clean up abandoned and vacant properties. In its meeting May 21, County Council’s Planning and Economic Development Committee recommended… Read more ›
Land banks, agencies set up to acquire vacant and foreclosed homes and make them community assets once again, work in Michigan, Ohio and New York and the idea should get a tryout here, said Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer. She’s… Read more ›
Recently, Cuyahoga Land Bank President Gus Frangos joined US Representatives Steve LaTourette and Marcia Fudge at a press conference held to announce the introduction of the Property Value Restoration Act of 2012 in Congress. The bipartisan bill would create funds… Read more ›
Payback is a beautiful thing — especially when those bankrolling neighborhood revitalization in Greater Cleveland are the carpetbaggers who fueled the foreclosure crisis. On May 4, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that Cuyahoga County was eligible for just shy… Read more ›
In an unprecedented showing of collaboration and mutual support, WEWS News Channel 5, Cleveland’s local ABC-TV affiliate, sponsored an hour-long town hall forum as part of their “Building Better Neighborhoods” series on March 1st. Gus Frangos, President of the Cuyahoga… Read more ›
Lake County commissioners took another step Thursday toward getting a county land bank up and running to help deal with foreclosed and abandoned properties. Commissioners passed a resolution formally designating the Lake County Land Reutilization Corp., referred to as the… Read more ›
Columbus’ newly formed Vacant and Abandoned Properties team has identified the first batch of houses it wants to demolish by the end of the year. As the team — made up of members of the city attorney’s office, code-enforcement and… Read more ›
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County is poised to receive nearly $12 million from a nationwide settlement with mortgage lenders to demolish thousands of buildings left vacant and blighted in the aftermath of the foreclosure epidemic. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine… Read more ›
YOUNGSTOWN Mahoning County is eligible to receive $1,531,680 from a state attorney general program for the demolition of blighted structures. “That’s all?” said Youngstown Mayor Charles Sammarone when told of the county’s amount Friday by The Vindicator. The mayor’s biggest… Read more ›
LAKEWOOD, Ohio — A pilot program operated by two nonprofit groups to place refugees in vacant, foreclosed homes has settled its first family into a renovated house in Lakewood. Bhutanese natives Ruk and Leela Rai, along with their 3-year-old… Read more ›
CANTON — Stark County is eligible to receive $2.3 million to help demolish abandoned and blighted homes. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine on Friday announced each county’s share of the $75 million the state received from the national mortgage settlement… Read more ›
ELYRIA — Opposition to a Lorain County land bank is growing among the schools districts and municipalities which would lose money from their already tight budget to fund the land bank The land bank, which was approved Wednesday by Lorain… Read more ›
In mid-February, Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that he is committing $75 million of the money awarded to Ohio as part of the 49 state settlement agreement with the nation’s five largest mortgage lenders to demolition of vacant and blighted… Read more ›
ELYRIA — The Lorain County commissioners approved forming a land bank in the county, with more than half the funding coming from money that now goes to school districts. The land bank will be paid from a portion of fees… Read more ›
