District Reports: Bank Shot? Is Landbanking by the City Wise Economic Policy?




District Reports Podcast show

Summary: Host, former Alder Susan Hamblin, and her guests, 2nd District Alder Bridget Maniaci and 19th District Alder Mark Clear, discussed the City’s recent practice of purchasing properties and budgeting to do so in 2010 and 2011. Is this smart economic policy? What is the City planning to do with these properties? Is it worth taking properties off the tax rolls? These were some of the questions discussed.