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Reading Mayor Tom McMahon has started a virtual "Wall of Shame" featuring blighted properties he says will be torn down unless owners fix them up. The property owners' names are posted along with ...
During the postwar era, municipalities sought to grow enriched and modernized communities from the slums that they demolished. As the Civil Rights Movement was in full display through highway revolts and responses to racial violence, there was a growing mindset among urban planners that a communal-focused, people-first approach should be taken, along the same lines as community development ...
Urban decay is often the result of inter-related socio-economic issues, including urban planning decisions, economic deprivation of the local populace, the construction of freeways and railroad lines that bypass or run through the area, [2] depopulation by suburbanization of peripheral lands, real estate neighborhood redlining, [3] and ...
Blighted land in Philadelphia. Land banking is the practice of aggregating parcels of land for future sale or development.. While in many countries land banking may refer to various private real estate investment schemes, in the United States it refers to the establishment of quasi-governmental county or municipal authorities tasked with managing an inventory of surplus land.
It had been nearly 50 years since an old church was a place of worship. Now, it has been knocked down in Alliance.
Akron city officials are pursuing state funding to demolish a handful of large commercial buildings and more than 100 blighted homes while hoping to use local income taxes from the community ...
Tax increment financing subsidies, which are used for both publicly subsidized economic development and municipal projects, [2]: 2 have provided the means for cities and counties to gain approval of redevelopment of blighted properties or public projects such as city halls, parks, libraries etc.
The empty block “is likely the most blighted lot left in the core and has become a public nuisance for nearby businesses,” Gateway’s Daniel Parrella said.