if you lived here, you’d be home already (Scene)
Drive east out of downtown Cleveland, and it’s just a few minutes before you come to one of the city’s starkest divides between the haves and the have-nots, at the exit for the tony lakeshore enclave...
View ArticleWhat to do with the vacant homes in Cleveland is a quandary (Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio — On a late-November afternoon, Cleveland City Councilman Jeffrey Johnson drove slowly down Drexel Avenue, past large colonial homes set back from the quiet street, and pointed out the...
View ArticleLow-cost loft home conversions make old houses marketable, avoiding...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Buying a house for $500 would be an indisputable bargain in most places, but not necessarily in Cleveland. So when the owner of the vacant house in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood...
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A Victory in Glenville
Once a property sits vacant for three or four years, people sometimes become accustomed to an eyesore in the neighborhood. They have their own problems to deal with, after all. Eventually the city will...
View ArticleA Public-Private Partnership saves a Glenville community asset
The Cuyahoga Land Bank, Gies Companies – Cresco Real Estate join together to bolster the Shore Bank Enterprise Center Facing financial difficulties in the aftermath of the Great Recession post-2008,...
View ArticleCuyahoga Land Bank, with developers lined up, acquires ailing Glenville...
By: Michelle Jarboe, Plain Dealer In the 1990s, an industrial complex on Cleveland’s East Side started a new life as a home for fledgling businesses and a community lender lured here from Chicago. Now...
View ArticleAn unusual team effort to save a Glenville business center deserves a cheer...
By: Editorial Board, Plain Dealer CHEERS . . . to the special team effort to save the nearly vacant ShoreBank Enterprise Center in Glenville before it implodes. The Cuyahoga Land Bank recently bought...
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Glenville Scores Two Wins with One Project
Library Project has Neighborhood and Environmental Impact Cuyahoga Land Bank Key to Collaboration with Cleveland City Council, Cleveland Public Library, Ohio EPA, and Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority...
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Church Leaders Focus on Neighborhood
Evangel Temple Holiness Church is located just a mile from the Bratenahl border in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood, but its surroundings are a stark difference to the stately homes and more affluent...
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A Home Restored
The Cuyahoga Land Bank has the potential to change the face of a neighborhood. Case in point: The Cuyahoga Land Bank has gone to significant lengths to restore this South Boulevard property in...
View ArticleCuyahoga Land Bank Recognized for Restoration Excellence
The Cuyahoga Land Bank received the Award of Merit for Neighborhood Impact from the Cleveland Restoration Society and American Institute of Architects (AIA) Cleveland for its renovation and restoration...
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Cleaning Up: Former Gas Station Site to Find New Life as Greenspace
Old abandoned gas stations dotting the corners of our cities can be eyesores and blight communities. Cities struggle with what to do about polluted, abandoned gas stations and other...
View ArticleCollaboration at its Finest
What was once an old abandoned gas station rife with contamination in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood is now a beautiful, sustainable green space thanks to the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga Land Bank...
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