urban revitalization

Zombie Properties Story begins at 10:40Dealing with abandoned or zombie properties is a challenge for any municipality. The owner falls into foreclosure,…

Everything old is new again, so the saying goes. With that in mind the Preservation League of New York State announced a plan to repurpose five vacant…

Mildred Warner of Cornell University recently held a conference at the college on the economic state of upstate New York’s largest urban centers.She says…

Declining populations and shuttered factories have left rustbelt cities - like Buffalo or Rochester - with numerous vacant and abandoned properties. They…

An expert panel from the Urban Land Institute presented preliminary suggestions for the future of the HSBC tower in Buffalo on Thursday. The building,…

More collaboration is needed between the several efforts under way to revitalize upstate New York's "legacy cities," says a report released this week by a…

Despite Albany’s prominence as the state capital, over the years, large swaths of the city’s urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.Earlier…

Catherine Tumber is a big believer that small cities matter."Cities like Rochester and Syracuse have been gradually dropped out of the urban…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wxxi/local-wxxi-985558.mp3Less than two years ago, New York State was trying to rid itself of…