A group of four men plan are the "site-search committee" for Nickelsville, a planned Hooverville-style shantytown of wood shacks homeless people hope to build here later this summer.

The Starboard Side development was once envisioned as the proof Toledo needed to show the suburbs there was still money to be made building housing within the city limits.

By the time Bill Gottlieb died, he had bought up more than 100 properties dilapidated, perhaps, but in prime Lower Manhattan. The trouble is, he also left behind a fractious family to fight over them.

The owners of 1,120 parcels have signed up for the Clean and Green tax-break program since Luzerne County’s new assessed values started hitting the mail in May.

Jim Cowan has spent the past 16 years as a restaurant manager, owner and now director of the Bricktown Association watching growth spurts, controversies, success stories and failures in what is considered the top entertainment district in Oklahoma. A lot