Storms peel roof off school in Gary, rip down trees around Northwest Indiana
Right across the street, Gary firefighters made their way inside Frankie Woods McCullough Academy, a public school located at ...
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Gary plans more demolition to get rid of abandoned houses in Aetna neighborhood
GARY, Ind. (WNDU) - Gary city officials today announced plans to demolish about 20 more abandoned homes in the Aetna neighborhood on the city’s northeast side. Last year the city demolished 35 ...
Charles Barkley to commit $2 million to battle blight in Birmingham and his Alabama hometown
After renovating his late mother's home in Leeds, just east of Birmingham, the Basketball Hall of Famer wants to tackle ...
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Gary, Indiana, demolishing 24 abandoned buildings to spark development
The City of Gary is demolishing several old and abandoned buildings. Crews have been working to take down 24 abandoned homes ...
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‘What we’re doing is making a better future’: Gary blight effort hits second phase in Aetna
The son of a single mom, Wiseman said he remembers when families filled the now-blighted homes and the neighborhood on Gary’s east side felt alive. A demolition worker razes an abandoned ...
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Knocking down abandoned buildings has a lot of benefits for Detroit − but it’s costly for cities
Rehabilitating abandoned and neglected properties is often not possible. It can take just a few years for vacant homes to transition ... Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, have experienced population ...
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This historic North Carolina mill village starred in ‘The Hunger Games’ — and has listed for sale
Director Gary Ross used its wooded hills and abandoned homes as a compelling backdrop to Everdeen’s impoverished, post-apocalyptic mining town on the fringes of society. In reality, it’s a ...
Knocking down abandoned buildings has a lot of benefits for Detroit − but it’s costly for cities
From 2014 to 2019, many of the demolitions were funded by the federal government’s Hardest Hit Fund. The goals of the fund are to help reduce homeowner foreclosures and stabilize neighborhoods. This ...
Natalia Grace: The story of orphan abandoned for being ‘adult’, who inspired Hulu show ‘Good American Family’
Hulu’s new series ‘Good American Family’ is generating a lot of buzz. It’s based on the life of Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian ...
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Gary kicks off second year of Aetna blight elimination iniative
which the Mayor said will tear down between 20 and 24 homes this week. The volunteer effort in Aetna is one part of a larger push to rid Gary of the abandoned and dilapidated structures that have ...