Shreveport neighborhood urges city to demolish crumbling building before someone gets hurt
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Emmitt Welch, who is over Allendale’s Friendship House, wants city property standards to address dilapidated properties in Shreveport.
His main focus is a old building at the corner of North Allen Avenue and Clay Street. At one time, this building was a nightclub, corner store, garage and home.
Since then, the building has remained vacant and fallen apart. Welch says people break into it and that he’s put up barriers to keep it empty.
“If I don’t raise the flag on this particular issue and something happens to one of these little kids, I could never live with myself,” Welch says.