Cleanup work on vacant property in Edinburg center will put the lot back into use

Cleanup begins at the site of a former gas station in the center of Edinburg, a cleanup project led by the Portage County Land Bank. Lyndsey Brennan/The Portager

Cleanup work on vacant property in Edinburg center will put the lot back into use

- Lyndsey Brennan

From the late 1950s and into the ‘90s, Edinburg Township had a gas station in the center of town. Then it was abandoned and eventually condemned, demolished and spent two decades as a vacant lot, too contaminated for redevelopment.

Now the property has a chance to take on a new commercial tenant, thanks to the Portage County Land Bank and a state cleanup grant. 

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