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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Michigan’s first land bank was founded in 2002 as the Genesee County Land Reutilization Council (now the Genesee County Land Bank ) by Dan Kildee , who later went on to be one of the cofounders and first president of the Center for Community Progress. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6%

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I call this community building, not revitalization. -- " You gotta have community building ," 2007 -- " Arts-based revitalization, community building, network strengthening, commodification, and Artomatic ," 2009 And like with multi-faceted arts centers, better economic return comes from those that are adaptively reused than built from scratch (" Developing (..)