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Eventually, I'll find an investor, or developer, for the property.' RTV6 reached out to the owner, and he said, 'People are trying to make me out to be a bad guy, but I'm not. 'If those fines and fees are not taken care of if the tax bill is not paid in accordance with city ordinances, regulations, and statutes that property can move and go into a tax sale.' We have new orders open,' Dimitri Kyser, Department of Business and Neighborhood Services, said. 'Currently on this particular property, there are past due fines and fees. The Indianapolis Department of Business and Neighborhood Services has issued a citation to the property owner for multiple violations. Reacting to complaints from city-county councilors, a crew from the Marion County Health Department is mowing the lawn that was overgrown and making the property look worse. 'He would feel the same that we do, that this is not right.' If it was in his neighborhood, I don't think he would be happy with it looking like this,' Joyce Randolph, president of Forest Manor Community Association, said. 'It's just not fair that you buy something and let it sit like this.

The president of Forest Manor Community Association has a message for him: But the newsroom does know a private individual, John Eric Sturm, is the owner. To be clear, RTV6 does not know everything that is in that building. 'That's dangerous because there is asbestos in the building.' They have flashlights and other lighting instruments they go in and play around in the building,' Anderson said.

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'They put ladders up the building and climb through the windows at night. Phillip Anderson, a neighborhood resident, says kids play inside of the structure. If someone peers through the broken out windows in the doors, they can see chaos and damage on the interior of the building. Some of the windows that are supposed to be boarded up are not. Graffiti is scrawled on the Old School One. Neighbors say the large school campus is harming their property values, is a breeding ground for crime and needs to be redeveloped, or torn down. INDIANAPOLIS - A former east side Indianapolis school sits empty, neglected and unwanted.

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