Over the course of the past year, the Kalamazoo County Land Bank led an effort to revitalize a historic, but blighted building in the Edison neighborhood, just southeast of downtown Kalamazoo. This competition, called Fare Games, identified a pair of local food entrepreneurs as the...
Battle Creek's neighborhoods have seen promising progress in recent years, and city officials are hopeful the upward trend will continue into the next decade. From code violations to property values, local neighborhoods have improved for the third consecutive year, indicating a rise out of the foreclosure...
Building Better Neighborhoods by Partnering with Local Schools The Marquette County Land Bank is partnering with Ishpeming High School’s Industrial Arts Program to renovate a formerly abandoned home across the street from the school. The land bank donated the property to the school last year, and...
“Strengthening Communities through Partnership to Demolish and Remove Blight” The Kalamazoo County Land Bank is partnering with the Kalamazoo County Treasurer and local municipalities to demolish blighted structures that have been foreclosed on by the county treasurer for delinquent property taxes and are endangering neighborhoods and...