There’s really one tool Cambridge has to get deadbeat property owners to fill long-empty spaces with tenants: Getting them to show up and explain themselves.

A number of Toronto thoroughfares once known as lively, walkable streets lined with shops and restaurants have been rendered ...

Cambridge city councilors are upset their neighborhoods are seeing more vacant storefronts. They’re also upset they can’t seem to do much about it.

The city of Minneapolis has found 16 more empty storefronts to fill downtown and in nearby neighborhoods and is offering another round of grants totaling $220,000 to encourage arts businesses to move ...

The United Methodist Church has regained control of a now-empty building as a breakaway congregation in Pensacola has moved ...