Is local land bank best answer for blight? (Chillicothe Gazette)
CHILLICOTHE - Everyone's driven past them: once-new structures that are now only shadows of their former selves, abandoned, overgrown by weeds, sometimes ...
Guest Editorial: Surveying city properties (WOIO)
My name is Jim Rokakis. I am director of the Thriving Communities Institute, a program of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, ...
Attorney General’s Moving Ohio Forward Program Supports 3,500 Demolitions
On February 27th, Ohio General Attorney Mike DeWine held a press conference in Columbus to announce the results of his ...
Mapping out how Detroit is tackling a mountain of blight
March 24, 2015 [Mike Wilkinson, Bridge Magazine] No one who has driven through Detroit is surprised by what confronts city ...
Cities Resort to Demolition to Deal With Blight
November 18, 2014 [Mike Wheatly, Realty Biz News] A deconstruction movement is brewing across U.S. cities, in an effort to ...
Why this city ‘removes cancer cells’ of foreclosed and abandoned homes
November 18, 2014 [CNN Wire] In and around Cleveland, nearly 6,000 foreclosed and abandoned homes are being destroyed in an ...
Cleveland gets noticed for bringing new life to abandoned homes, lots (Crain’s Cleveland Business)
Cleveland is doing a better job than most cities at figuring out new, more productive uses for abandoned lots and ...
Cleveland’s plan to destroy nearly 6,000 homes
November 13, 2014 [Les Cristie, CNN Money] In and around Cleveland, nearly 6,000 foreclosed and abandoned homes are being destroyed ...
$50M demolition fund passes Cuyahoga County Council unanimously
October 29, 2014 [Erick Trickey, Cleveland Magazine Politics] Cuyahoga County will soon give cities tens of millions of dollars to ...
Millions for demolition within reach for Cleveland and inner-ring suburbs
October 28, 2014 [Leila Atassi, cleveland.com] If Cuyahoga County Council approves a plan Tuesday to borrow $50 million for the ...
Clark County land bank could benefit from settlement (Springfield News Sun)
The Clark County land bank could benefit financially if Ohio receives a share of a private settlement between Bank of ...
Jim Rokakis headlines the City Club
On August 15, Thriving Communities Institute Director Jim Rokakis spoke to a sold-out City Club lunch forum that attracted politicians, ...
