The council unanimously approved a measure to purchase the Magnolia Park and Azalea Gardens apartment complexes on the city's Westside, which “have long suffered from neglect, unsafe conditions and ...

In September, a Missouri judge upheld the city of Brentwood's plan to seize businesses along the Manchester Road Corridor, siding with the city's $436 million redevelopment scheme and its decision to ...

ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta plans to take a bludgeon to blight through two new pieces of legislation. District 3 city councilman Byron Amos sponsored two resolutions aimed at addressing multi-family ...

ATLANTA — The idea is to use eminent domain to take over blighted complexes and allow the city to redevelop them. The problems are hard to miss. Ripped walls and dilapidated properties, an eyesore ...

A house on the 1800 block of Fifth Avenue has become the first in Altoona to enter a newly available process by which the city can acquire a deteriorating dwelling by eminent domain, so that it can be ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Atlanta lawmakers want the city ...

ST. LOUIS — The city of St. Louis is moving to take control of long-abandoned properties near the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. On Thursday, city officials announced plans to pursue ...

A municipality can't condemn a property simply by declaring it not fully productive and thus in need of development, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a decision that trims back use ...

Blighted properties tell citizens who care about their communities everything they need to know about the past. They tell stories of neglect among their neighbors. Often, they stand as reminders of ...

Reading City Council approved measures that will require any declarations of blight to be filed with the Berks County recorder of deeds. Officials said the move will improve transparency, speed up the ...