King Kone Ice Cream and Foods put smiles on the faces of youngsters. The shop opened up for the season near the end of this school year. Owner Anthony McGowan said a lot of people have come out so to his ice cream shop.

"It is one of the bright spots in this neighborhood. I mean, my particular ice cream business is one of the bright spots. When people come, kids come, everyone's happy," McGowan said. 

But now, McGowan has just found out that his property is on the blighted list, and he said the Erie Land Bank failed to notify him.

"I never got a letter. I never got a phone call and I still didn't get a phone call. This gentleman whose property is a couple of doors down — his property . . . it got labeled as blighted, and she saw him walk from down and say, 'hey, where you coming from — 802? He's like, 'yeah,' she said 'that property is blighted as well.' Okay. Nobody told me nothing," McGowan said.

When you think of blight, an ice cream shop might not be what you picture. McGowan said he just recently found out his ice cream shop has been on the blight list since 2011, which is before he even purchased it.

"I purchased a property from my tax-free lane free sale in 2013, just to find out ten years later, or so, that it's on the blighted list and possibly being taken away from me from by the Erie Land Bank. So I would like to understand what the Erie Land Bank is more about you know I mean that whole process all about the Erie Land Bank on my property being blighted," McGowan said.