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Old 09-10-2014, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Alvin View Post
WAG: Quite often due to taxes appraisals on "improvements" on the land value, hence the building demos...
cheaper to insure and maintain the slabs and dirt and less risk of exposure to liability of vacant structures.
Other than that I've
Agree - plus maybe the ability to recycle some of the more valuable materials (copper, steel).

Many of these buildings sat vacant for 40 or 50 years.

K

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