Years’ worth of headaches and dozens of calls for shootings that kept neighbors on edge is officially over.
, neighbors saw another sign of peace after the Building Standards Board got an inside look at the property. Pictures showed evidence of dangerous and unsanitary conditions including blood on the ground, holes in the wall, trash and poor construction. It was ultimately determined that the structure should be demolished.
“I guess a sense of relief, you know, just to actually see it being torn down,” Jasmine Trinidad said. “It feels pretty good, you know, just to know that that’s something we’re not going to have to worry about anymore and that the neighborhood will be, you know, more relaxed.”“I work with the citizens that live in this area on a day-to-day basis,” Fischer said. “I listen to their complaints and look for short and long-term resolutions to their issues and this property here was one of them.
“It was a source of many issues -- shootings, drive-bys drunk drivers were generated from this property,” Fischer said.As he walked through the rubble, Fischer picked up a piece. He said it represents the hard work it took, as a community, to see the demolition through.
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