Was he paying taxes? It seems insane for an owner to just keep paying taxes on a blighted building generating zero revenue so I doubt it. Didn't he own it for decades? Unless the taxes were insanely low.
If there were enough unpaid fines on the property couldn't they take it into foreclosure? The city could have also sued him. I think the city has options to take on slumlords like him but they never seem to do it.
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