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Local News
- Lighthouse Communities and Urban Pizza
Uptown Incubator, Urban Pizza to open April 1. - Madison Square Business Incubator
Madison Square business incubator has community backing for $1.7m project. - Flips Foreclosed Homes
Lighthouse Communities has several homes throughout Kent County that they are revitalizing. The positive investment and development of these properties will likely stabilize property values of the entire block, bringing vitality and prosperity to our communities. - Bringing in NSP funds to address foreclosures and blight in southeast Grand Rapids
Garfield Park and Madison Square neighborhood will benefit from an $820,000 investment in NSP funds allocated by the State of Michigan. Watch the video online. - Countrywide Settlement Funds allocated to housing agencies
Lighthouse Communities and other local housing agencies will receive funds to continue to stabilize the neighborhoods hardest hit by foreclosures in Grand Rapids. - Fighting foreclosures with Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds
Read about the effects of foreclosure in our communities and how Lighthouse will help tackle this issue through the NSP program by making improvements to foreclosed properties and returning them to homeownership. - Madison Square business district
Madison Square business district another step closer to becoming Grand Rapids' second CID
From the years 2002-2010, Lighthouse is projected to help make 700 homes and apartments lead safe.
- Lighthouse Communities' 5th Anniversary Report, page 8
Lead Remediation Program
Lighthouse administers a Lead Remediation program in cooperation with the City of Grand Rapids and Get The Lead Out/Healthy Homes Coalitionfor the removal of hazardous lead paint from homes and apartments. This is a multi-agency collaborative to help protect children, families and their homes. This mix of partners illustrates the broad support that exists for this program as well as the overall commitment within Grand Rapids to eliminate the problem of childhood lead poisoning.
Eligible property owners will be able to receive up to $12,000 per unit with repayment requirements being dependent upon ownership and property type. We have a full time lead specialist on staff to assist with lead projects citywide. If your home was built before 1978 and you believe lead-based paint was used in your home, please contact us at (616) 451-9140 or visit the City's Lead Hazard Control Program page for more details.
More Construction Services News
Multiple homes under construction and available for sale and rent