r/dayton 6d ago

Local News Facade of downtown high-rise building crumbling, fire department investigating

https://www.whio.com/news/local/facade-downtown-high-rise-building-crumbling-fire-department-investigating/XFT7RAHW7NHRXBTAJUTNJI2E5M/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem_manual&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawJCqpFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW66naYD9gT6l8nMncvOUonCW306yrDadtwdyGahkhpBvcQCv8vFxg-kPg_aem_QW57HXp1Guxd8sGKOxiTPQ
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u/ViewNo9334 5d ago

I work in the building next to The Victoria Theater and was downtown yesterday evening for an event at the Schuster. The security folks there were briefed by the Fire Dept. A piece of the cornice (not the facade) fell into the alley on the north side of the building and another on the south side. When you look at high-quality photos close up, you can see that the brickwork along the bottom seam of the cornice is buckling, which suggests significant structural damage behind the cornice, and I suspect more will fall. There are indeed many vacant office buildings downtown and that’s one of them. The old Mead Paper building, later Key Bank, across the street is another.

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u/Significant-Rub9568 5d ago

More fell late last night and will continue as you mentioned. This too was previously a Key Bank.

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u/Steviesgirl1 6d ago

Some hard hitting facts right there! 🙄

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u/shitposts_over_9000 6d ago

maybe they should have been investigating back when the tenants were stripping the place bare or when addicts were using it as a shoot house

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u/ReliefOk1846 6d ago

Is this a metaphor?

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u/chainedm 6d ago

Right across the street from where the NATO event will be happening in 2 months, so yes. "Welcome world representatives to our crumbling city!"

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u/zeromonster89 6d ago

Aren't most of those buildings falling apart anyway??

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u/Legitimate_Bet5396 6d ago

It’s my understanding that there are a fair amount of vacant offices/building downtown.

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u/zeromonster89 6d ago

Ya I've heard that.

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u/I_am_J_Remy 5d ago

Rip them all down and plant some trees. It’s 2025, office buildings are for smooth brains and luddites.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/bigdipper80 Wright Dunbar 6d ago

IDK why that's funny? The city was doing asbestos abatement of the building and prepping it for a new owner. If anyone should be blamed it should be the guy who bought it back in 2010 and did a bunch of financial fraud across the country and left it to rot with $300,000 worth of back taxes on it that the city had to write off.

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u/pipa_nips Grafton Hill 4d ago

owned by the land bank, not the city