{"id":5794,"date":"2022-08-04T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T13:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2022-08-04T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T13:33:26","slug":"the-blighted-rosemary-apartments-building-to-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/the-blighted-rosemary-apartments-building-to-be-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blighted Rosemary Apartments Building to Be Demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Land Bank’s David Mann opens the press conference to announce the impending demolition of the Rosemary Apartments Building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Land Bank rarely gives up on buildings,\u201d said Lucas County Commissioner on Tuesday, July 26, during a press conference to announce just that \u2013 the demolition of the Rosemary Apartments Building on the corner of Detroit and Phillips.<\/p>\n

The \u201cbad history and bad owners,\u201d noted Gerken of the building, led to just that, the impending demolition of a six-story building that has been an eyesore \u2013 a very dangerous eyesore \u2013 in north Toledo for over 20 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all need housing, but this isn\u2019t the housing that we need,\u201d added Gerken.<\/p>\n

The building was declared a public nuisance by the authority of the Land Bank in May 2022 after the current owner failed to abate over 60 pages worth of nuisance conditions. That authority was ceded to the Land Bank by the City of Toledo.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Rosemary was built in 1923 and had 31,000 square feet of residential space within its six floors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a viable place,\u201d said Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz of the building that is now located in the Ottawa River flood plane. \u201cThe City of Toledo and the Land Bank are dedicated to historic preservation whenever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the case of the Rosemary Apartments, noted the mayor and the rest of the speakers at the announcement of the impending demolition, preservation is not possible. The building has been closed for about 20 years and various owners since then have allowed the building to deteriorate beyond possible restoration, even were it not located in the flood plane. There are no plans to build another structure on the site \u2013 the future will be green space at the corner of Detroit and Phillips, said Lucas County Treasurer Lindsay Webb, who led the charge to have the structure demolished.<\/p>\n

Also present at the announcement were the family \u2013 father, mother and sister \u2013 of Joshua Sorrell, a student\/athlete at Whitmer High School who lost his life in the building in 2016 when he was 16 years old. Joshua fell down the building\u2019s abandoned elevator shaft. The day of the announcement, Tuesday, July 26, coincidentally, would have been Joshua\u2019s 23rd<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n

Demolition will be put out to bid to local contractors in the coming months. The demolition costs will be paid by the Ohio Building Demolition and Site Revitalization Program which was created by the Ohio General Assembly and signed into law by Governor DeWine in June 2021. The Land Bank has been awarded $500,000 through the Ohio Department of Development from the program to date with most of that funding to be used for the Rosemary Apartments project.<\/p>\n

The Land Bank is waiting for an additional $12,000,000 that has been requested for demolition projects in Toledo and the rest to Lucas County.<\/p>\n

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The Truth Staff \u201cThe Land Bank rarely gives up on buildings,\u201d said Lucas County Commissioner on Tuesday, July 26, during a press conference to announce just that \u2013 the demolition of the Rosemary Apartments Building on the corner of Detroit and Phillips. The \u201cbad history and bad owners,\u201d noted Gerken of the building, led to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[133],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5797,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/5797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}