House demolition set in Sheffield Village

By RICHARD PAYERCHIN rpayerchin@MorningJournal.com @MJ_JournalRick

SHEFFIELD VILLAGE The mission to tear down homes that have become public nuisances will move to Sheffield Village today.

Also, the Lorain County Land Reutilization Corp., also called the county land bank, will mark the 150th demolition with a June 4 visit by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.

The attorney generals office created the Moving Ohio Forward Demolition Grant Program with $75 million allocated for counties to tear down blighted or abandoned homes. That has become a main source of revenues to pay for demolitions around Lorain County.

A contractor for the land bank will demolish 3194 E. River Road starting about 9:15 a.m.

The project is the second land bank demolition in the village, but the first for Mayor John Hunter and county officials to observe, said Patrick Metzger, director of the Lorain County Port Authority, which operates the county land bank.

Village officials referred the homes to the land bank and county officials hoped to work with the property owners to raze the structures, Metzger said.

They were collapsing, he said about the homes.

However, the property owners were unable to complete the job so the land bank program will, Metzger said.

Sheffield Village has active building code enforcement; homes stay in good repair and property values are high, Hunter said. Nuisance properties are not nearly as numerous as they are in other, larger communities, he said.

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