Land Bank Celebrates Dansville Property Development
One Community Update
November 17, 2025
Source: www.thelcn.com
The Livingston County Land Bank Corporation has redeveloped a property it acquired in January 2022 with a new modular home.
County officials recently announced the development and sale of a previously vacant property in Dansville as part of the Land Bank’s ongoing effort to revitalize neglected properties across Livingston County.
The Land Bank, a not-for-profit corporation, originally acquired the Dansville property in January 2022. The Land Bank demolished the property’s existing structure and built the modular home on the lot.
“This project shows the ability of the Land Bank to acquire and develop properties that are often ignored” said Livingston County Land Bank Board Chairman Daniel L. Pangrazio, who is also supervisor for the town of Caledonia. “Neglected properties like this one will often sit vacant for years, but the Land Bank has the ability to demolish and build new homes — providing a great benefit to these neighborhoods.”
Livingston County Land Bank Executive Director Megan Crowe praised local community partners for their efforts on the project, including Avon Modular Homes, Lakeview Construction, and Realtor Anthony Scorsone.
A land bank is a governmental entity or non-profit corporation focused on the rehabilitation of vacant, abandoned and tax delinquent properties to go back on to the tax rolls.
In March, the Livingston County Land Bank was awarded a $2 million in Land Bank Initiative grant from New York State Homes and Community Renewal for the acquisition, demolition, rehabilitation, and redevelopment of properties across the county.
The Livingston County Land Bank Corporation is staffed and operated by the County Planning Department with assistance from other associated county departments. Land bank operations are directed by a seven-member board of directors.
New York established land banks in 2011, but set a limit of 20. That cap was reached in 2016 with other counties, including Livingston, still wishing to create land banks.
Livingston County had been talking with Genesee and Orleans counties and the City of Batavia about creating a regional land bank, but those talks eventually broke down. Livingston County then sought to create its own single-county land bank.
Livingston County submitted an application in late April 2017 to allow it to create the Livingston County Land Bank Corp., following state legislation that increased by five — to 25 from 20 — the number of land banks allowed in the state. The county’s application for a land bank was approved in July 2017.
The state Land Bank Program was established to help combat the problem of vacant and abandoned properties and allows municipalities to apply for and create land banks in their communities.
Since its establishment in August 2017, the Land Bank has actively worked to address vacant and abandoned properties throughout the region. The organization’s efforts have resulted in a number of property redevelopments along with several strategic demolitions, all aimed bringing unused or underutilized tracts back to productive use, county officials said.
At the time Livingston County established its land bank, then-County Administrator Ian M. Coyle said the county had identified about 225 properties in the county that could benefit from the land bank. Most of the properties were residential.
The Livingston County Land Bank’s first property was a 0.4-acre vacant residential lot at Canandaigua Street in Leicester. The property was originally slated to be included in the county’s annual tax foreclosure auction in July 2017, but was pulled from the auction to be considered for the newly-created Livingston County Land Bank. The property was later given to Habitat for Humanity for a new-build home.
The Land Bank’s mission is to support community development and boost the local economy by returning vacant, abandoned, underutilized, and tax-delinquent properties to productive use.
For more information, visit livingstoncountylandbank.org.
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