CLEVELAND — Crews began demolishing the two houses on either side of Ariel Castro’s former residence on Seymour Avenue around 7:30 a.m. Monday. The demolitions, which drew multiple onlookers armed with cameras, took approximately three hours. Reports have called for… Read more ›
Ohio has been approved for $60 million to expand demolition of vacant houses. The U.S. Treasury Department gave the nod to the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to use part of the state’s $375 million “Hardest Hit Funds” to tear down… Read more ›
The Cuyahoga Land Bank is featured on the Neighborhood Stabilization (NSP) Resource Exchange Center website. The NSP Resource Exchange provides helpful information needed by all NSP grantees, subrecipients and developers to purchase, rehabilitate, and resell foreclosed properties. This property was… Read more ›
The Cuyahoga Land Bank owns vacant lots throughout Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, often the result of recent demolitions. After demolition, vacant lots are transferred to municipal land banks or non profit organizations. However, lots may also be made available to… Read more ›
We’ve seen neighborhoods transformed by demolitions in the past four years, with hundreds of properties “born again” as community gardens, green space, expanded yards, daycare centers, youth program centers and even a practice site for the local bomb squad. And… Read more ›
When a disabled U.S. Army veteran wants to return to Cleveland to live near his family, there aren’t a lot of options for affordable, accessible housing—but Stan Barrow, moving here from Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, was determined. “I went… Read more ›
NHS of Greater Cleveland recently hosted a press conference at a home the Cuyahoga Land Bank deeded over to Kamm’s Corners Development Corporation to announce the availability of $3.7 million of down payment assistance available exclusively in the City of… Read more ›
Vacant lots and properties around the city of Cleveland aren’t a new problem, but a new solution is gaining some traction among homeowners. Through a joint effort with the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga land banks, homeowners living next to… Read more ›
CLEVELAND — The nonprofit responsible for the scheduled Wednesday demolition of the Cleveland house where three women were imprisoned and raped for a decade plans to take additional precautions to ensure that passersby do not collect rubble that could later… Read more ›
The growing attention placed on clearing out or cleaning up vacant and abandoned properties in Greater Cleveland is welcome and encouraging, as both remedies are necessary. But I would like to emphasize the bigger picture and the need for a… Read more ›
Since our inception in 2009, the Cuyahoga Land Bank has acquired 1009 properties from tax foreclosure, making it our largest vacant property pipeline. Many of these properties have been acquired as a result of legislation allowing for an expedited tax… Read more ›
The Cuyahoga Land Bank generates a detailed renovation specification for all properties listed for sale in our Deed-in-Escrow program. The renovation specification outlines the scope of work necessary for the property to meet our Housing Quality Standards upon final inspection.… Read more ›
While new development and urban gardens receive the most press when it comes to the beneficial reuse of vacant land, a large majority of recent applicants to the City of Cleveland’s Land Bank are homeowners who are interested in purchasing an… Read more ›
As we have been in the past, the Cuyahoga Land Bank was recently tapped by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor to assist law enforcement by acquiring and demolishing a property. Last week, the Cuyahoga Land Bank, working with Prosecutor Timothy McGinty, executed… Read more ›
CLEVELAND (USA TODAY) — Demolition crews began tearing down Ariel Castro’s former house of horror Wednesday after one of three young women held captive there for 11 years brought a bundle of yellow balloons in memory of other missing children. Cheers… Read more ›
Cleveland, Ohio (CNN) — The Cleveland woman who was held the longest at Ariel Castro’s house of horrors was there to see it shortly before it was torn down Wednesday. Michelle Knight handed out yellow helium-filled balloons Wednesday morning to… Read more ›
As we have been in the past, the Cuyahoga Land Bank was recently tapped by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor to assist law enforcement by acquiring and demolishing a property that was forfeited as a part of a plea agreement made… Read more ›
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The lights have gone out on the home where Ariel Castro kept Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight locked away for more than a decade. And soon, that home will be no more. Cleveland Public Power… Read more ›
