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	<title>LoveLakewood.com &#124; Lakewood, Ohio</title>
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		<title>City&#8217;s real estate buying spree continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The city’s effort to mitigate the negative effects of the housing market collapse by acquiring bank-owned properties continues at a historic pace. In the last month, it has taken control of six bank-owned properties – two apartment buildings, and four single-family houses – and demolished at least one other one.
The buying frenzy is being financed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2010/03/08/citys-real-estate-buying-spree-continues/</link>
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		<title>City, RTA negotiating Friday shopper service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lakewood’s Director of Planning and Development told a feisty group of citizens at Tuesday’s city council meeting that the city could hear back from RTA as soon as next week regarding a proposal that would provide limited one-day per week circulator-style transportation.
Director Nathan Kelly said details of the planned route are still being negotiated, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2010/02/19/city-rta-negotiating-friday-shopper-service/</link>
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		<title>City adds two more houses to property portfolio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aided by federal funds, the city recently purchased two more properties that had been in foreclosure. The houses will likely be rehabbed and resold.
The city paid $52,000 to LPS Asset Management Solutions and Morequity, Inc. for 1300 Andrews. The house went into foreclosure in July 2008 and was sold at sheriff&#8217;s auction a couple of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2010/02/01/city-adds-two-more-houses-to-property-portfolio/</link>
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		<title>Zealous landlords end effort to evict diner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small businesses are an important strand in the fabric of Lakewood, so it’s disappointing when a new business and their landlord cannot get along.
Nick and Tammy Asimakis, owners of the building at 14412   Detroit Ave, on Wednesday withdrew their eviction case against Two Dads’ Diner in Lakewood Municipal Court.  (Read the complete court [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2010/01/31/zealous-landlords-end-effort-to-evict-diner/</link>
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		<title>Drug Mart Plaza renovation brings Quaker Steak and Lube to Detroit Rd.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quaker Steak and Lube will be an anchor tenant at the Discount  Drug Mart Plaza, according to the project&#8217;s architect, who shared details of a major renovation planned for the property located across the street from the Lakewood Public Library on Detroit Rd.
Speaking tonight to the Board of Building Standards/Architectural Board of Review/Sign Review, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2010/01/15/quaker-steak-and-lube-to-bolster/</link>
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		<title>Mortgage company tries to block city&#8217;s effort to remove West 117th St. blight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The city’s effort to rid itself of one of the blighted apartment buildings on West 117th St. has run into a snag.
Wilshire Credit Corporation, acting as the servicing agent for Wells Fargo Bank, filed an appeal in the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas on December 11, 2009 seeking to block the city from demolishing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2010/01/13/mortgage-company-tries-to-block-citys-effort-to-remove-w117-blight/</link>
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		<title>Another union contract approved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lakewood City Council tonight approved a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the Local 1043 and Ohio Council 8 American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (Administrative Employees) &#8212; AFSCME.
According to Mayor Edward O. FitzGerald, it is very similar to the Public Works union contract that was approved in December. &#8220;It calls for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2010/01/05/another-union-contract-approved/</link>
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		<title>Anonymous housing complaint irks Woodford Ave. homeowners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woodford Ave. homeowners Gary and Marianne Zimmerman are not satisfied with the quality of communication they received from city hall involving a dispute over alleged housing violations. They filed a complaint in Cuyahoga   County Common Pleas Court in an effort to gain access to city documents related to the situation.
According to the Zimmerman’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2010/01/03/anonymous-housing-complaint-irks-woodford-homeowners/</link>
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		<title>Lakewood PD quickly arrests armed robbery suspect on Hilliard-Atkins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lakewood police officers were dispatched to an apartment building at the corner of Atkins and Madison at 10:31 a.m. to investigate a report of a woman who was robbed at gunpoint.
A police dispatcher received a telephone call from a woman described as &#8220;hysterical&#8221; who said she was robbed by a male with a gun. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2009/12/28/lakewood-pd-quickly-arrest-armed-robbery-suspect-on-hilliard-atkins/</link>
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		<title>City levels another house in Birdtown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Built with money donated by the community, designed by noted Cleveland-based architectural firm Walker and Weeks, and opened as a childcare facility on February 19, 1925, the house located at 2070   Dowd Ave. operated as a nursery for 77 years.
It closed in 2002 and sat vacant and in a deteriorating state until the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovelakewood.com/blog/2009/12/27/city-levels-another-house-in-birdtown/</link>
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