When Steve Karns of 21st Avenue in Fairview heard that the city planned to tear down a long-derelict house across from his home as part of its blighted property demolition program, he was encouraged. When Karns subsequently learned that the city instead planned to renovate the house as part of a new program designed to […]
The Altoona Planning Commission this week approved a land development plan for a three-story, six-unit apartment building on the 100 block of Lexington Avenue for tenants whose rents will be subsidized under Section 8 through the Altoona Housing Authority. The Durbin Companies’ $1.06 million project is being paid for in its entirety with money authorized […]