'Vacants To Value' Could Bring More People To City
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has put the city's Vacants to Value program on the fast track in hopes of reducing blight, bringing in new residents and generating more tax dollars for the city.
The mayor on Thursday held a summit to kick-start the Vacants to Value program, and her office told 11 News that the interest in it was so high that they had to move it to the Baltimore Convention Center.
Currently, there are more than 16,000 vacant buildings in Baltimore, about a third of which are owned by the city. Add to that recent census data showing a drop in the city's population, and it doesn't paint a very good picture -- something the mayor was well aware of.
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