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

Redevelopment of sites in southeast, southwest and downtown Rochester all seek to provide market-rate housing options, and the city is preparing to push even more property into the pipeline.

More than 600 Luzerne County properties have been added to the Clean and Green land preservation program in recent weeks, and more are expected as the countywide reassessment puts current values on vacant land.

"There are a lot of buyers and a lot of sellers out there, but they're miles apart in their philosophy at the moment," said Stan Rutstein, an agent with Re/Max Gulfstream.

Neighbors are wary of facilities' future Chicken coops and cornfields surrounded the state asylum in Owings Mills when it opened almost 120 years ago. The quiet countryside was considered by 19th-century health experts as the best place to care for th