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Clearing the Way: Why Strategic Demolition Is Essential to Community Stabilization
The mission of Cuyahoga Land Bank is rooted in a simple but powerful idea: return distressed and abandoned properties to productive use. While renovation is often the preferred path, the reality
Creative Destruction: The Land Bank finds creative uses for salvaged materials from distressed buildings
Land Bank-salvaged sandstone from East Cleveland, now in Circle East District, is an environmentally responsible, cost effective and nostalgic link to history. The towering apartment
East Cleveland Cleanup of More than 250 Tons of Trash Offers Healthy Start for Residents, Opportunity
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) completed a significant environmental cleanup at Elderwood and Chapman in East Cleveland last year, removing more than 250 tons of illegally dumped trash
Maximizing Impact: How a Multi-Tool Land Banking Approach Transforms Communities
At Cuyahoga Land Bank, no two properties are the same – and neither are the solutions required to bring them back to productive use. From complex environmental cleanups to neighborhood
Land for a Purpose: How Cuyahoga Land Bank Helps Power Green Infrastructure Across the County
For more than a decade, Cuyahoga Land Bank has played a quiet but critical role in strengthening our region’s infrastructure not just by returning vacant properties to productive use, but by
LAND BANK 101: Meet Community Stabilization Team Member Vince Adamus
The Cuyahoga Land Bank and staff do the type of community development work that often doesn’t receive a lot of fanfare. The newly-launched, Land Bank 101 ‘Meet the Team’ series seeks to
Land Bank Battles Titles, Taxes and LLCs for Miceli Expansion
It took years to put together the multiple adjacent acres of land Miceli Dairy Products needed to break ground on a $13-million expansion project just off Cleveland’s Opportunity Corridor. The
Cuyahoga Land Bank’s 2025 Year in Review
Last year was a big year for Cuyahoga Land Bank and a milestone year for some of the region’s largest and most beleaguered housing and development projects. In 2025 patience paid off for a number
Cuyahoga Land Bank, Cleveland Housing Investment Fund Part of New Clark-Fulton Aging in Place Housing
The long-awaited groundbreaking of a 52-unit senior-living apartment complex on Cleveland’s near West Side marks the first investment of a unique public-private partnership fund announced earlier
Partnerships Speed Availability of Affordable Housing in Cleveland
Greater Cleveland’s Habitat for Humanity – in partnership with Cuyahoga Land Bank and Cleveland City Council – is piloting a modular housing program aimed at speeding up the