This project will return 20 currently vacant, abandoned and tax delinquent properties to fully-rehabbed use for families interested in long-term home ownership as well as stabilizing seven critical commercial properties to positive community use. The 2012 Evanston Housing Strategy seeks to revitalize the health and wellbeing of the community from housing to safety and beautification.Ĭurrently, the Community Council-under the guidance and leadership of President Adkins-is implementing a 2014 Housing and Commercial Development Strategy in partnership with the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County Port Authority, Model Group, LISC and the Community Building Institute. This focus will also support children in the neighborhood along the safe routes to school by building connections among pre-existing assets.
The 2012 Housing and Commercial Development Strategies focus resources in the Woodburn Avenue Corridor and historic Five-Points Intersection around Walnut Hills High School and the Evanston Recreation Center. This will improve the perception of safety in our community through focused investments into blighted areas. The primary objectives of these strategies are to attract homeowners and new businesses. The Evanston Community Council has taken the issue ‘head-on’ and devised a 2012 Housing and Commercial Development Strategies. The end of 2010 left the neighborhood left with over 200 vacant and blighted properties. Predatory lending resulted in the loss of many owner occupied homes. We are ranked 8 th out of Cincinnati’s 52 neighborhoods according to WIN’s study of foreclosures in Hamilton County. This plan recognized the need for elderly apartment development and rehabbing homes to eliminate blight, promote safety and beautification in our TIF district.Įvanston was hard hit by the housing foreclosure crisis. The plan’s main objectives were to promote retail development in the business district and devise a housing strategy.Įvanston Community Council implemented a housing strategy in 2007.
The overall goal of the “Plan” was to refine the business district into a smaller, core area created by the growth and expansion of Xavier University. The TIF District Plan is a tool designed to improve the overall climate for development and stimulate increased private investment.Įvanston’s Five Points Urban Renewal Plan was approved by City Council in 2002. Current plans for the development and redevelopment started with designating Evanston’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District in 2000. Over the past six years, we have worked diligently to drive a positive change in the Evanston Community.
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