property tax abatement

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Republican leaders want the Supreme Court to pause redistricting fight until after November election; Summit County Council Rep Jerry Feeman dies after a long illness; Mayor Justin Bibb wants tax abatement on homes' first $350,000.

The city has long offered 15-year full property tax abatements for newly built or substantially renovated housing. The new proposal is meant to direct development toward underinvested neighborhoods.

Google broke ground on a new $600 million data center in central Ohio.The new facility in New Albany was spurred, in part, by different local and state…

The city of Canton is expanding a program to attract new residents.Since the mid-1990s the city has had four Community Reinvestment Areas. Now the whole…