Business View Civil & Municipal - May 2023

35 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 5 EAST L I VERPOOL , OHIO that goes hand in hand with this is to build new construction homes.” With only three new homes built in East Liverpool over the past 20 years, the city has created a Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) which is hoped to encourage new builds by abating property taxes for up to 15 years. “We’ve been working really hard on trying to get developers to build here. It’s sad that we have to tear all these houses down, but with that comes an opportunity because we have these empty lots,” he affirms. Bringing a hotel to the community is also a point of discussion. More recently, a Hotel Feasibility Study has been done, identifying that the city would benefit from this type of accommodation. “We have been taking that study and sending it to potential hotel developers. We’ve been having those conversations the past two to three months, and they’ve been going really well,” reports Bricker.