This presentation discusses a broad range of vacant property issues including how demolition funding is used by land banks to assist cities/towns to strategically target blight, and assist developers in effective redevelopment and long-term community stabilization. Who are the players and partners, (perhaps some you haven’t thought of) that can help? What are the road blocks facing efforts to combat vacancy and blight? How can we develop partnerships to make the most impact from limited funding resources across the board- from demolition to development?

1. Effective Partnerships:
From Demolition to Development
Speaker: Alison D. Goebel, PhD
Course Number: 4nov- DEMO

2. About Greater Ohio Policy Center
A outcome-oriented statewide
non-profit that champions
revitalization and sustainable
redevelopment in Ohio:
• Revitalize Ohio’s urban
cores and metropolitan
regions
• Achieve sustainable land
reuse and economic
growth
Alison D. Goebel,
Associate Director
Greater Ohio Policy
Center
@alisongoebeloh
agoebel@greaterohio.org

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5. Course Description
This session will discuss a broad range of vacant property issues
including how demolition funding is used by landbanks to assist
cities/towns to strategically target blight, and assist developers in
effective redevelopment and long-term community stabilization. Who
are the players and partners, (perhaps some you haven’t thought of)
that can help? What are the road blocks facing efforts to combat
vacancy and blight? How can we develop partnerships to make the
most impact from limited funding resources across the board- from
demolition to development?

6. Learning Objectives:
• Participants will be able to list innovative techniques in urban planning
such as: identifying scarce funding resources, strategic partnerships, data-driven
site selection, and collaborative neighborhood outreach & planning
exercises.
• Participants will be able to discuss how strategic site selection/compact
development (i.e. near transportation and amenities), housing
rehabilitation and various vacant land reuses can improve sustainability
efforts for cities/towns.
• Participants will be able to discuss current trends in land use analysis and
how it is driving demolition and housing policy & funding decisions.
• Participants will be able to discuss current trends in data-driven planning
efforts focused on strategic site selection for demolition and
redevelopment.

7. Effective Partnerships: From
Demolition to Development
Perspectives on
Development
Strategies from around
Ohio

8. Policies and Practices
Attractive, safe and accessible communities—
small and large—will attract and retain the workers
we need to make Ohio an economically
competitive state
L to R: Columbus
Commons, Fort Piqua
Historic Hotel

9. Why Ohio needs demolition
~90,000 blighted residential properties
High rates of blighted commercial and
industrial properties.

10. Why Ohio needs demolition: stagnant
state population growth; decreasing
urban population

11. Why Ohio needs demolition:
decreasing populations in mid- and
small-sized cities
0%
-2%
-4%
-6%
-8%
-10%
Canton
Akron
Springfield
Lima
Portsmouth
Mansfield
Ironton
Percent Change in Population from 2000 to 2010

12. Why Ohio needs demolition: in 2010
residential vacancy rates exceed
10% in Ohio’s major cities

13. Residential vacancy rates exceeded 10% in
Ohio’s mid- and small-sized cities, in 2010

14. Why Ohio needs demolition
Forces leading to blight are varied
Property decline=>neighborhood decline
can be slow or fast

15. Demolition is cost effective
In Ohio, the average cost of demolishing one
single family home ranges from $6,500-$12,000,
on average.
Renovating a blighted home often costs a
minimum of $30,000.

16. Demolition is not a end-solution
Vacant property can damage a neighborhood just as
much as a blighted property
Image from Lisa DeJong, Cleveland
Plain Dealer
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/06/
cleveland_property_foreclosure.html

17. Stabilize and Stimulate Markets with
Demolition as One Strategy
 Demolition used to protect housing investments in stronger
neighborhoods
 “spot cleaning”
 Demolition used to directly support large scale
redevelopment
 Strategic land assemblage
 Demolition a successful tool when combined with other
strategies and when sensitive to neighborhood/market
context

18. Demolition is not a end-solution
Over $160 million from federal and state funds and
local matches directed towards demolition from
2010 to 2016
Intention of programs is to stabilize and stimulate
Ohio’s housing markets
Over 12,000 blighted properties removed between
2010-2014, another 7,000+ anticipated by 2016

19. Demolition to Stabilize and Stimulate Market
 Programs encourage or require demolition in
targeted areas.
 Target areas are neighborhoods that have the
potential to bounce back
 Target areas often include a concentration of,
or proximity to, other assets, like transit lines,
employment centers, cultural institutions,
parks

20. Demolition to Stabilize and Stimulate Market
 Target areas often in older, urban
neighborhoods
 Urban neighborhoods have faced decline over
several decades but are becoming attractive
real estate markets, nationally
 Ohio’s urban neighborhoods are beginning to
see repopulation and market recovery

21. Housing prices are higher in core urban
neighborhoods

22. Housing prices are higher in core urban
neighborhoods

23. Housing prices are higher in core urban
neighborhoods

24. Leading Demolition and Redevelopment
 22 County land banks in state
• Another 22 counties eligible to create a land bank
 Many county land banks actively and closely
partner with city departments
 Land banks and local governments
increasingly partnering with nonprofits and
private sector for impact

25. Shared Goal: Strong Housing
Markets, Sustainable Communities
Neighbors, nonprofits, public sector,
private sector, investors, etc share
common goal of stronger housing markets
Shared goals of financially, socially,
environmentally sustainable communities

26. This concludes The American Institute of
Architects (AIA) Continuing Education
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