- The port holds more than a thousand blighted properties.

It hopes to turn into more productive use to do that.

It works with communities.

We're here in Sad Adamsville today with Vice President Philip Denning, who's gonna give us an update on a few of the 60 to 70 properties and owns here.

So we're surrounded by some of these properties that you're working on.

What are we looking - At?

Yeah, well, actually this is a nice little corner to talk about it.

We got a whole portfolio of properties where they sat.

First of all, you'll just notice how interestingly and unique this neighborhood is.

It's really historic, has an in incredible urban fabric.

These historic properties and these first four houses are all part of the portfolio that the Land Bank acquired.

And they have a variety of different problems.

Some of them, you know, they have walls collapsing, they have roofs that were collapsing.

They needed to be boarded up.

They had animals, they had people dumping.

There's a property up here on the right that caught fire a couple of times.

But this is, you know, step one, secure the property, make sure they're boarded.

And that takes a little time and it also takes a whole lot of resources that aren't typically just sitting around waiting and available.

- The port's real estate facilities manager Ron Shs, takes us inside one of the properties where the whole back wall was leaning out about a foot and a half, and on the verge of collapsing, - We can go on up.

It's, and just get a kind of a view of what they did up here.

And you can really see really good.

The work they did in the work started over in this room, in, in the, the larger bedroom.

But you can see on the wall that they came in and, and redid new sender block, brought it all back in, put into new, you can see here, partially two if you go up.

Roof's been completely done with raptors and sheathing and shingles was all done when they completed this to make.

And the re flooring was done.

So this house is ready to start demoing the rest of the stuff, wiring, plumbing, drywall, flooring and things to hopefully here in the next couple years, be able to get done and started in this in the neighborhood.

- What is the community interested in having happen?

- You know, we've started to talk with the community and one of the important, obviously critical to make sure that we're, we're working alongside and with the community, but one of the things that sometimes we're fearful of is getting communities expectations faster than we can move.

And this community and the neighborhood of s Adamsville actually has been incredible about that.

We've stabilized over 50 properties in the city from properties like this in sad amesville to the Regal Theater in the West End.

And that allows us to develop them ourselves, make them available to small minority developers, make them available to big developers for, you know, big affordable housing projects.

And that is one of the interesting ways that the Land Bank plays a pretty supportive role in the, the housing ecosystem of, of the entire county and city.

- So many of these buildings are in poor condition leading some developers to consider tearing them down, but not the port.

It works with neighborhoods to try to save them, saying if not us, then who?

For Brick By Brick.

I'm Ann Thompson.