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Dayton’s got about 11,000 tax-delinquent properties but the Montgomery County Treasurer says there’s a few tools that can help bring some neglected an

Vision for Good Samaritan Hospital site revealed; but questions remain

It’s been several weeks since the historic Wright brothers’ airplane factory was heavily damaged by fire in late March. The city doesn't have a final assessment on the structures or how the fire started. The future of the buildings is now up in the air.

Unfortunately, the most historic parts of the property – the hangars that were built by the Wrights – were the most severely damaged in the March 26 fire.

Dayton Daily News reporters cross-referenced the city’s nuisance property list against Montgomery County property tax records to identify the listed o

Once one of the city’s industrial jewels, the massive Packard complex is now one of the United States’ foremost examples of urban blight.

The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.

The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.

Detroit and other cities are looking to get rid of large eyesores to open up those spaces for redevelopment. For Detroit, that could mean rebuilding now mostly Black neighborhoods that thrived when factories were built decades ago and before the whites who worked in them moved away.

Detroit has aggressively taken on its blight problem since emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history eight years ago.