Lakewood

Lakewood, Fairview Park, North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls vacant homes find new owners quickly: The House Next Door (cleveland.com)

August 5, 2015 [Bruce Geiselman, special to cleveland.com] LAKEWOOD, Ohio – Most vacant homes in Lakewood don't stay empty for ...

Press Release: Cuyahoga Land Bank Does It Again: Leads Nation in Use of Stimulus Funding to Revitalize Neighborhood (Press Release)

A coalition led by the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, commonly known as the Cuyahoga Land Bank, has completed the ...

More than 17,000 Northeast Ohio homes aren’t receiving water and appear to be vacant

March 30, 2013 [Dave Davis, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio--Drive around Cuyahoga County and you can't miss the telltale signs ...

City to Demolish ‘Dilapidated’ Houses with $100,000 Grant

October 2, 2012 [Patch.com] The city of Lakewood has officially accepted $100,000 in grants to demolish properties deemed a nuisance ...

Cuyahoga County cities brace for property tax losses (Plain Dealer)

UPDATE: 2:01 p.m. An earlier version of this story included incorrect tax rates for Berea and Richmond Heights. Shaker Heights ...

New housing program for refugees settles its first family in Lakewood: Global Village

May 5, 2012 [Michael O'Malley, The Plain Dealer] LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- A pilot program operated by two nonprofit groups to ...
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Lakewood Alive Discusses The State Of The Community

This year, Gus Frangos, President and General Counsel of the Cuyahoga Land Bank, was invited to participate in Lakewood Alive's ...
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Cuyahoga Land Bank Partners with Lakewood on Major Demolition

It was a giant demolition project-a 25-unit apartment building, costing nearly 18 times more than a single-residence demolition-but the Cuyahoga ...
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Cuyahoga Land Bank, Cities Fight Nuisances Together

Often a demolition is more than a demolition-it can be the catalyst for saving a neighborhood. That was the thinking ...

Lakewood couple renovates home victimized by massive mortgage fraud case

January 5, 2012 [WEWS] LAKEWOOD, Ohio - Jill and Leon Gefert love their Lakewood neighborhood, for quite some time they ...

Lakewood home will house refugees as part of new local partnership

December 14, 2011 [Eric Sandy, Sun News] LAKEWOOD Vacant homes dot Cuyahoga County, affecting neighborhoods that otherwise host vibrant communities ...

Homesteading plan to offer abandoned homes to refugees

December 13, 2011 [Robert L. Smith, The Plain Dealer] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Within the collection of abandoned houses haunting the ...