Opportunity Zones

The state has launched a new portal for its 320 opportunity zones, so those economically distressed communities can showcase projects to potential…

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, March 14: DeWine to propose tax credit programs;Heartbeat bill clears the Senate;Stark County judge…

This year, when the U.S. Treasury Department selected “opportunity zones”—those higher-poverty census tracts in which financiers will be able to claim tax breaks in exchange for investment—an unlikely Cleveland Heights neighborhood made the cut. Other zones in Northeast Ohio are home to major employers, commercial districts, industrial land or hot real estate markets adjacent to lower-income neighborhoods.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson visited Columbus Friday to promote a federal tax break program known as "Opportunity Zones." Secretary…

A financially struggling part of Wellsville, where Columbiana County’s Port Authority has already organized upwards of $30 million in investments for an…