DAYTON — A new contractor has been put in charge of the clean-up of a large fire pile where a meat market once stood.
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News Center 7 has been following the clean-up efforts at the site of the former Cornell Meat King Supermarket since it had to be demolished following a fire last October.
Since the fire, debris from the building has remained in piles at the site. Neighbors have continued to tell News Center 7 about their frustration regarding the slow progress to clean the site.
“It’s all we know, man,” Mark Dickey, of Dayton, said. “Just to see it demolished, to see where it started from to where it’s going in a place like this, it just sucks, man.”
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Just last week, our team was out at the site where debris piles were all over the property. That remained the case on Monday.
“It’s probably frustrating for the citizens, all the residents that live around that area,” James McDaniel, Dayton Housing Inspection Division Manager, said.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, city leaders spent months convincing the owner to begin the clean-up. They even went to court at one point.
The first contractor for the private demolition seemed to be overwhelmed by the scale of work.
“So that’s the part where we meet with him and we have different talks to see how he’s progressing,” McDaniel said.
McDaniel told News Center 7’s Mike Campbell that they learned the owner changed lawyers and fired the first contractor he hired.
A new contractor obtained proper permits and environmental certifications. They even scheduled work to begin on Monday, but that didn’t happen.
The city also said they don’t have nearly as much control as they would if it had been a city-sponsored demolition, but they want to get the property owners to do the work to save taxpayer money.
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