City Council Monday came to a consensus on hiring an executive director for the Redevelopment Authority/Land Bank, a post that hasn’t existed for a couple of generations. Council reached that informal consensus after a presentation by consultant Winnie Branton on eminent domain and conservatorship, tools the RA/LB could use to help get problem properties rehabilitated […]
City Council members this week reassured a Fairview resident about their recent intentions for facilitating housing development at Keith athletic field even as they informed her that those intentions are moot, because the city failed in an attempt to buy the tract from the Altoona Area School District. Discussions about the potential for housing […]
After a story appeared in the Mirror last week about the city’s interest in Keith athletic field in Fairview as the potential site for housing development to
After a story appeared in the Mirror last week about the city’s interest in Keith athletic field in Fairview as the potential site for housing development to
Following relocation of eight residents from a red-tagged apartment house in April, the city has ratcheted up pressure on landlords who provide substandard hous