Wrecking Cincinnati: 292 McGregor Ave

NEIGHBORHOOD: Mount Auburn
YEAR BUILT: 1890
USE: Two-family dwelling
OWNER: Theresa Debnam
ASSESSED VALUE: $42,010
HAZARD: November 2009, adding broken windows, a partially collapsed chimney, and overgrown vegetation. Debnam was granted entry into a diversion program in January 2010, but, with no work performed and no Vacant Building Maintenance License, in August 2011 she was removed from the diversion program and a capious warrant issued for $1,000. A temporary restraining order that would have held off the demolition was denied on April 30, 2012.
CONDEMNED: September 2004, for rotted wood and exposed structural members and lack of exterior paint. In 2006, the City recommended demolition. New orders issued in March 2007, adding holes in the roof and damaged porch, cornice, siding, gutters and downspouts. In 2008, the City sold the property to Debnam for $1 to rehabiliate the structure as her personal residence and a daycare business. Debnam received condemnation orders in June 2008. A criminal case was filed in September 2009.
ORDERS: --
REASON RAZED: Declared a public nuisance and entered into the City's hazard abatement program.
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