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Executive Director Job Description Summary Under the direction of the Board of Directors represented by the Board Chair, the Executive Director is responsible for overall management and operation of the Kalamazoo County Land Bank Authority [...]

Washington Square in Edison is now fully occupied with resident-owned and diverse businesses after seven years of Land Bank and Edison Neighborhood Association work to activate and revitalize the commercial node. In addition to Washington [...]

The Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood Association and the Kalamazoo County Land Bank are excited to announce a Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs (MCACA) grant for Eastside Sunrise Plaza, a public pocket plaza on [...]

Ten years in the making, The Creamery, a nearly 60,000 square foot community-envisioned, mixed-use development in Edison, promises to help revitalize the neighborhood by providing affordable housing and much-needed 24 hour quality drop-in childcare. As [...]

Common Ground, a community garden cooperative sponsored in part by Vibrant Kalamazoo, will be hosted its first ever Self-Guided Community Garden Tour. Twelve community gardens are participating in this event and ready to show off [...]

As the Kalamazoo County Land Bank staff return in staggered shifts to the office, we honor practices of health and safety. In alignment with the Governor's Executive Order, our offices will not be open for [...]

The Kalamazoo County Land Bank has many opportunities available to utilize its resources, both for purchase and rental. Some of its programs include Side Lot, Adopt-A-Lot, purchase of vacant land and structures in need of [...]

Eastside Voices, an intergenerational oral history project featuring stories shared from current and former residents, was unveiled during the December Art Hop at the Kalamazoo Eastside Neighborhood Association. Coordinated by local artists Buddy Hannah and [...]

KALAMAZOO, MI -- A new economic growth authority expects to leverage $66 million in state and local taxes to boost business in downtown Kalamazoo during the next 30 years. Monday, the Kalamazoo City Commission approved a [...]

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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is supporting the cleanup of a blighted site primed for an ambitious redevelopment project. Monday, the DEQ announced it will loan $1.25 million and grant $100,000 to mitigate contamination of a historic [...]

On a map, Edison, the most populous of the Kalamazoo’s 22 neighborhoods, is shaped like a work boot with one loose shoelace, an apt symbol for a neighborhood that is a little hardscrabble tossed with [...]

Local officials are hopeful that Michigan Department of Environmental Quality funds will help clean up a blighted site primed for an ambitious redevelopment project. The county Board of Commissioners authorized its Brownfield Redevelopment Authority to apply [...]

From a classroom at Kalamazoo College grew a program that makes Kalamazoo’s neighborhoods safer, spruced up places where neighbors work together to make them that way. Building Blocks got its beginning in 1995 in [...]

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On March 2, 2011, JR won the TED prize at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and called for the creation of a global participatory art project. Inspired by JR’s large‐format street "pastings", [...]