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Housing Complex Being Raized

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published October 18, 2012 at 9:27 AM EDT

One of the nation's first public housing complexes is being turned to rubble.Demolition began yesterday at Poindexter Tower on the near East side as part of a redevelopment effort by the City and Franklin County. It opened in 1961 as a low-cost apartment complex for the elderly, but was plagued by crime and closed in 2003.
 
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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