Abandoned department stores are being used to house booming Gen Z population in this Rust Belt city

While coastal cities mull over the use of empty office towers, this Lake Erie city in Ohio had already been quietly solving ...
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How Rust Belt cities repurpose abandoned stores for Gen Z housing

The decline of traditional retail corridors across the Rust Belt has left countless storefronts boarded up, their windows ...
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This Rust Belt Town Doesn’t Even Have a Grocery Store—but It’s Where 2 Women Bought a Cement House for Their Hit Podcast

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign in Donora, PA, touting the Rust Belt city as "the home of champions." Donora, PA, an economically distressed borough of ...

Editorial: Battle Creek, a Rust Belt icon, battles back as American manufacturing jobs decline

Battle Creek would be in big trouble had it depended only on Kellogg as its economic engine. Instead, over the years, the ...
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Rust Belt voters aren’t all white, but election coverage of the region often ignores the concerns of people of color there

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wisconsin voters lining up to cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm election, Oct. 25, 2022, in Milwaukee. Scott Olson/Getty ...
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Complicating the Rust Belt

The Rust Belt, the postindustrial midwest, flyover country. Are these terms—which describe the area roughly from Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York—useful anymore? Were they ever? Every four years, the ...