Cuyahoga County Land Bank is a Cleveland-area land organization (actual name is Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, but it is informally known as the Cuyahoga County Land Bank) formed in 2009 by two county commissioners and the county treasurer serving as initial directors and was formed in response to the wave of foreclosures hitting Ohio. [read post]

  The task of plowing under the homes rests with the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp., which grew out of a 2009 state law aimed at creating “land banks” with the power and money to acquire unwanted properties and put them to better use — or at least put them out of their misery. [read post]

Smith   Yesterday’s post reviewing a well-done and movingly photographed Washington Postarticle about the un-building of Cleveland brought the properties from dereliction to foreclosure and donation – but all that accomplishes is changing the ownership, and the ultimate value is created by changing the real estate, which requires a mission entrepreneurial entity, in this case the innovative Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp, whose… [read post]