Arielle Kass

Akron

Reporter at Signal Akron

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Three Akron projects to get $12 million in historic tax credits

2 days ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Three projects to build more than 140 housing units in or near Akron’s downtown were awarded more than $12 million in Ohio tax credits Wednesday. All three projects will transform former office and industrial space into housing: the Akron Soap Co. and Federal Warehouse buildings and two former B.F. Goodrich buildings that are part of the Canal Place complex at the south end of downtown.
Akron leaders approve funds to support renters during evictions

4 days ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

A program that will help some renters avoid evictions by making lawyers available to represent them was approved Monday by Akron City Council. In a 13-0 vote, council members agreed to spend $250,000 annually for three years, beginning this fall, on a pilot program intended to reduce the number of evictions. The program is slated to start Sept. 1.
Proposed program could help Akron tenants avoid evictions

5 days ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

A three-year pilot program that could help tenants avoid eviction will be presented today to Akron City Council. The program, called Right to Counsel, would spend $250,000 annually to provide attorneys to help keep low-income residents housed. Similar programs exist in other cities and have been effective, said Ryan Maxwell, a managing attorney for Community Legal Aid Services who helped with planning.
Former Hotchkiss Elementary in Akron to be redeveloped

1 week ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Hassan Anderson has long appreciated the idea of redeveloping buildings for something other than their intended use. When Anderson lived in Cleveland, he thought it was neat to see warehouses transformed into residential lofts. He always wanted to do a project himself. “I thought it was pretty cool that you could turn something old and make it new and modern,” the Akron resident said.
Akron’s Summa Health sale receives conditional approval

1 week ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Ohio’s attorney general signed off on an agreement Wednesday that will sell the nonprofit Summa Health to a venture capital-funded, for-profit company. In doing so, he upped the hospital’s sales price and placed guardrails on the acquisition that will help ensure Summa continues to operate in the community.
This Akron native named a Bitcoin wallet after his hometown

1 week ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Mike Carson is a domain name investor — he buys them to sell later — so naturally, he bought Akron.io in honor of the city of his birth. Now, the New Jersey resident is putting it to use, naming his new bitcoin wallet Akron. “It sounded like a good name,” he said. “I named it after my hometown.” Carson, a Cuyahoga Falls High School graduate, said he practices cypherpunk ideals, a movement using technology to effect change.
How Akron’s Innerbelt project will focus on more than the highway

1 week ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

When Akron’s Innerbelt project was first announced, it seemed reasonable that a plan to remake the decommissioned portion of the highway would focus on that mile-long stretch of road. But over months of community conversations, and with federal funding that could boost a redevelopment plan still in flux, the proposal that will emerge this fall is likely to focus far more on the people than the pavement.
These Akron-area veterans are debating Trump’s military parade

2 weeks ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass |Andrew Keiper

Chuck Deger, a Vietnam-era Air Force sergeant, has protested the administration of President Donald Trump for months. On Thursday, Deger was among about 400 people who participated in a protest in Highland Square to push back against the treatment of immigrants. He held a “WE THE PEOPLE MEANS ALL OF US” sign. Deger plans to attend another protest on Saturday in downtown Akron. That one is in response to a planned military parade to honor the Army’s 250th birthday — and Trump’s 79th.
Family Promise of Summit County to house more families

2 weeks ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Family Promise of Summit County, a nonprofit that houses families experiencing homelessness, received $850,000 from the State of Ohio to purchase and renovate an apartment building. The money, from the state Department of Development, will go toward buying what is now a four-unit, market-rate apartment building on Forest Glen Drive in Cuyahoga Falls. Jeff Wilhite, the executive director of Family Promise, said he plans to add a fifth unit to the building.
SUPCO ruling may affect Akron-area reverse discrimination suits

2 weeks ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

After more than three decades at GOJO Industries, Rodger Tullis was terminated in the summer of 2023. A woman more than 20 years younger replaced him as a sales vice president for the Akron-based manufacturer. Tullis, who was 58 when his job was eliminated, claimed in a federal lawsuit filed in April his replacement had “far less qualifications, experience and accomplishments and little new business pioneered on her own.” He stated he was discriminated against for being an older man.