Warren — Two Michigan cities are looking to create their own land banks, a tool proponents say helps cities convert vacant or deteriorating properties into affordable housing, community gardens or ...

Once an industrial rail and fuel depot, the Betsie Bay waterfront is being reimagined as a mix of parkland, trails, and ...

Warren is one step closer to creating an authority that would work to rehabilitate or sell hundreds of blighted properties in the city, but the city's mayor has to sign off on it and she said she is ...

MANISTEE COUNTY — From redevelopment to demolitions, the Manistee County Land Bank Authority is working to transform properties across the county. It’s doing so with more than $3 million in blight ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids is now the second city in Michigan to form its own land bank, highlighting the need to accelerate local development opportunities. Tuesday, the Grand Rapids City ...

Antonio Adan was the recipient of the 2025 Emerging Leader Award from the Center for Community Progress last month. Adan, who ...

GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - The Genesee County Land Bank marked two decades of work in revitalizing vacant and underused property in 2024. The agency is Michigan's first land bank, originally ...

Manistee County's treasurer and land bank authority chair, Rachel Nelson, was recently elected as the the Michigan Land Bank Association chair for 2025-26. Other officers for 2025-26 elected by the ...

A handful of Flint homeowners who lost their houses through tax foreclosure this year would get a second chance to buy them ...

The Warren City Council will file a lawsuit against Warren Mayor Lori Stone this week after she refused to sign a land bank agreement that was unanimously approved by its seven members on Aug. 27.

Over the past several months, Indianapolis leaders have been staking colorful signs into the yards of city-owned vacant ...

Some Michigan landowners are turning to goats to clear invasive plants instead of using pesticides or machinery. The animals ...