After coming to town with grand ideas for “bringing back Oil City” about two years ago and buying up buildings, then going silent, a New Jersey software developer is now being cited for leaving his downtown buildings to rot for two years.
Four summary citations for “unsafe conditions” were issued late last month to Milan Adamovsky by the Oil City code enforcement office.
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Source: Ross Arrowsmith