As Detroit runs out of abandoned homes, the need for leaders to create policy around vacant lots grows, writes Detroit Land ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Mercantile Bank moves toward a $95.8M acquisition of Eastern Michigan Financial, with a shareholder vote in December.

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

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.

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 ...

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