MONTGOMERY COUNTY — The state is spending millions of dollars to tear down eyesores around Ohio.
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The focus is to get rid of unsafe buildings and open the land for something new.
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The sound of a demolition crew can be noisy, but for some, the noise is worth it if it means fewer vacant homes.
“There’s some back over there, too. There’s some down that way. There’s some pretty much everywhere,” Robert Lewis said.
Lewis is talking about lots filled with trash, overgrown weeds, and broken windows.
“I think the task is daunting to deal with blighted homes and blighted places like that,” Lewis said.
Montgomery County recently received $230,000 in state funding to demolish the homes he sees every day.
Most of the lots are in West Dayton and Trotwood.
Montgomery County Land Bank said demolition for these lots starts in a few months.
But Lewis wants county leaders to look into what’s causing these blighted homes.
“It’s definitely a problem,” Lewis said.
Here is a full list of addresses that the $230,000 state funding will be used to demolish in Montgomery County:
- 11237 Providence Road
- 11301 Providence Road
- 2334 Weaver Street
- 2320 Weaver Street
- 920 Ethel Avenue
- 2304 Germantown Street
- 4766 Ericson Avenue
- 230 Strand Avenue
- 110 Chain Avenue
- 332 Albers Avenue
- 442 Hollencamp Avenue
- 1357 Courter Street
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