The need for a land bank, however, might be a sign of larger issues facing the local community, reports Gloria Lloyd of the St. Louis Business Journal. “When you look across the United States at ...

The idea that you would have a land bank just does not exist in some of these counties,” Sandoval said. “It’s a symptom, a warning sign that you have demographic challenges in your region.

Two days after the Warren City Council filed a lawsuit to try to make Mayor Lori Stone sign an agreement to create a land bank, Stone said she will sign it. “If this legislation is truly the ...