land banks

Land Bank demos abandoned homes (Lancaster Eagle Gazette)

By Spencer Remoquillo, Lancaster Eagle Gazette LANCASTER - A number of the city's dilapidated homes known for decreasing surrounding property values and creating ...

Champaign County considers land bank to fight blight (Springfield News-Sun)

[Matt Sanctis, Springfield News-Sun] Champaign County leaders are researching if it makes sense to start a land bank, part of ...

Botkins agrees to join land bank (Sydney Daily News)

BOTKINS — During Tuesday night’s Botkins Village Council meeting, the village agreed to be a part of a county wide ...

WM looks to reutilization program (Troy Daily News)

By: Cecelia Fox, Troy Daily News WEST MILTON — Faced with a growing number of abandoned properties, the village of ...

House Urban Affairs Committee positions Caltagirone anti-blight bills for House vote (BCTV)

by House Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas Caltagirone HARRISBURG, March 15 – Democratic House Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas Caltagirone, D-Berks, ...

Land bank to eliminate Second Street eyesore (Newark Advocate)

By Ken Mallett, Newark Advocate NEWARK - The city of Newark has found another tool to help remove or improve run-down properties, ...

County establishing land bank (Bycarus Telegraph)

November 13, 2015 [Todd Hill, Telegraph Forum] BUCYRUS - Depending on the size of the structure, it  takes only a ...

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 ...

Today’s Land Bank Boom Could Lead to the Extinction of Land Banks (Next City)

Frank Alexander wasn’t expecting his book, Land Banks and Land Banking, to wind up so big.How the Zombie House Crisis Mutated ...

County eyes land bank (Herald Star Online)

The Jefferson County commissioners said Thursday they are in favor of establishing countywide land banking, which will allow for vacant ...