A $14.2 million remake of Kalamazoo neighborhoods hit hardest by blight and foreclosures will begin this fall with a flurry of purchases, demolitions, rehabilitations and even some new construction over the next three years.Read the full article:
The Kalamazoo City Commission accepted $14.2 million Tuesday in federal neighborhood stabilization stimulus money, plus an additional $1.4 million to administer the program.
About a third of the federal grant to Kalamazoo is earmarked for redevelopment of vacant and/or blighted areas and new construction in the Edison neighborhood’s long-awaited Marketplace plat could be a large share of that.
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/01/city_accepts_14_million_in_sti.html
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