Big Step to Fight Blight: County, city join forces to demolish vacant, deteriorating properties (Columbus Dispatch)
Franklin County hopes its new land bank will become a model for other communities plagued with vacant properties that — ...
Columbus, county reach agreement on land-bank protocol (Columbus Dispatch)
Columbus and Franklin County have reached an agreement to guide how the county’s new land bank will help Columbus address ...
U.S. asbestos rules foil land banks
July 30, 2012 [Columbus Dispatch] Federal interpretations of regulations on asbestos removal are hampering efforts by cities to tear down ...
128 ‘worst of the worst’ houses slated to be first to fall (Columbus Dispatch)
Columbus’ newly formed Vacant and Abandoned Properties team has identified the first batch of houses it wants to demolish by ...
Land Bank to tackle vacant houses (Columbus Dispatch)
A multimillion-dollar plan to revitalize Franklin County neighborhoods by tearing down or rehabbing dilapidated structures is expected to launch next ...
Cities seek help to bulldoze homes (Columbus Dispatch)
Ohio has more than 70,000 vacant and abandoned houses, and its cities don’t have the money to raze even the ...
Plan could help cities pay for blighted homes (Columbus Dispatch)
As part of an ongoing effort to wrestle with vacant and abandoned properties in Columbus, city officials will keep an ...
Investing in change: County Treasurer’s idea to stabilize property-tax collections is worthy (Columbus Dispatch)
A proposal by Franklin County Treasurer Ed Leonard to set up a nonprofit corporation that could rapidly acquire, fix up ...