DYER | A stumbling real estate market and provisions of the tax legislation overhaul signed into law last month mean there will be lean times ahead for the Redevelopment Commission and for the town itself.

An elementary school at the center of a civil rights battle, a hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and a hangar that once housed U.S. Navy dirigibles are on this year's National Trust for Historic Preservation's endangered list.

Declining land values in the Las Vegas Valley reflect high vacancy rates in the commercial real estate sectors and a struggling housing market, Applied Analysis principal Brian Gordon said.

When Tom and Mary Dowling bought their new home in October, they didn't mind that the Gibsonton subdivision was in its infancy. Living among rumbling bulldozers, they figured, was a small price to pay for getting a good deal on their home.

Front Street in East Toledo has long been regarded as the dusty and cracked access road to factories, truck depots, and dirty coal docks. The faded asphalt stretch running north-south parallel to the Maumee River cuts along some of the cheapest residentia