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Ohio Attorney General looks to Land Bank as potential partner to help make...
Cuyahoga Land Bank Board President and Cleveland Councilman Tony Brancatelli as well as Cuyahoga Land Bank Board Member and Cleveland Chief of Regional Development Chris Warren joined Ohio Attorney...
View ArticleReps Fudge, LaTourette Unviel Bill That Funds Demolition of Vacant Homes and...
Neighborhoods across America have been devastated by the foreclosure crisis and the homeowners who remain now find themselves in communities speckled with vacant and abandoned homes, which cause the...
View ArticleProperty Value Restoration Act Press Conference (Youtube)
On Monday, March 19, 2012, US Representatives Marcia Fudge and Steve LaTourette were joined by the Cuyahoga Land Bank (President Gus Frangos and Board President Councilman Tony Brancatelli) and others...
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Cuyahoga Land Bank Attracts International Attention
Television audiences and land planners on three continents are learning about the Cuyahoga Land Bank. Crews from France, Germany, Japan and Canada came to Cleveland in the past year to witness the...
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Cuyahoga Land Bank, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor and City of Cleveland Pledge...
In mid-February, Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that he is committing $75 million of the money awarded to Ohio as part of the 49 state settlement agreement with the nation’s five largest...
View ArticleCuyahoga County gets nearly $12 million from settlement to eliminate blight...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County is poised to receive nearly $12 million from a nationwide settlement with mortgage lenders to demolish thousands of buildings left vacant and blighted in the aftermath...
View ArticleDollars for demos: editorial (Plain Dealer)
Payback is a beautiful thing — especially when those bankrolling neighborhood revitalization in Greater Cleveland are the carpetbaggers who fueled the foreclosure crisis. On May 4, Ohio Attorney...
View ArticleBlighted properties to be demolished (WOIO)
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - County Prosecutor Bill Mason, Gus Frangos, President and General Counsel of the Cuyahoga Land Bank, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton, and Cleveland Councilman Tony Brancatelli...
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Cleveland Gets A New Cultural Garden With Land Bank’s Help
One of Cleveland’s best-kept secrets, the Polish-American Cultural Center on East 65th Street, is about to add a new gem to the neighborhood – a Cultural Garden adjacent to the museum. “Visitors will...
View ArticleWells Fargo settlement could pour millions of dollars into Greater Cleveland...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Wells Fargo has agreed to pour what could amount to millions of dollars into greater Cleveland as part of a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over its lending practices to...
View ArticleWhere is Blaine Murphy? Ask his ankle monitor: Christopher Evans (Plain Dealer)
Tony Brancatelli and I are sitting in a Tremont coffee joint, talking about the Skunk House, a zombie property on East 57th Street that we’d visited in February. Back then, the stench of the striped...
View ArticleCuyahoga County home prices start to rebound in some cities (Plain Dealer)
More than six years after home prices began an unprecedented decline, Cuyahoga County’s housing market may have finally hit bottom. An improving economy and employment picture have helped boost sales...
View ArticleCuyahoga County land bank appointees replace controversial members (Plain...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald has appointed three new members to the county land bank’s governing board, ending a protracted dispute with suburban mayors over their right to...
View ArticleThe Cuyahoga Land Bank adds three new members to board (WEWS)
CLEVELAND – Three new board members have been appointed to the Cuyahoga Land Bank. Warrensville Heights Mayor Brad Sellers, North Olmsted Mayor Kevin Kennedy and Reimagining Cleveland’s Bobbi Reichtell...
View ArticleCleveland’s glut of vacant housing could cost billions to eliminate at...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — At the current pace and without new funding sources, it would take more than 22 years and $4.5 billion to clear the vacant houses that must be razed in Cleveland, according to a City...
View ArticleCongress should pass neighborhood restoration bill: editorial (Plain Dealer)
Financial predators peddling subprime loans wrecked many Cleveland neighborhoods. It will take more than two decades and $4.5 billion just to demolish unsafe properties, a City Council report says....
View ArticleConsultant erred in analysis of Cleveland’s long-term cost of blight,...
Correction: A graphic published originally with this story incorrectly said that the city of Cleveland pays the economic costs when distressed houses that should be torn down are permitted to stand....
View ArticleThe Cuyahoga Land Bank Adds Three New Board Members
In September 2012, the appointing authorities of the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, commonly known as the Cuyahoga Land Bank, appointed two new Board members and filled one vacancy....
View ArticleCleveland Stories Features the Cuyahoga Land Bank (Youtube)
Cuyahoga Land Bank President Gus Frangos and Cleveland City Councilman Tony Brancatelli, who is the Land Bank’s Board President, sat down with Cleveland Stories recently to discuss the operations of...
View ArticleDeWine’s Demolitions: A Smashing Success? (WCPN)
Abandoned and foreclosed homes in the state are being demolished at a steady rate, thanks largely to a $75 million settlement Ohio’s Attorney General secured earlier this year. The idea is to curb...
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