Neighbors of a dilapidated and vacant home on Denver’s historic and picturesque 7th Avenue Parkway have taken their “poop protests” a step further, filing a civil lawsuit asking a Judge to either allow the house to be demolished or turned over to a third party.
“There seems to be a complete disregard for what is neighborly,” said John Krays, who owns a real estate investment company that filed the lawsuit this week, on behalf of several neighbors of the property at 2725 East 7th Avenue. “It’s hard to be proud of your neighborhood and where you live when one of the houses is vacant, abandoned, and stands as an open invitation for anything to happen.”
In August, CBS reported neighbors had become so fed up with the eyesore property, which has been vacant and deteriorating for six years, that they regularly began tossing bags of dog poop into the yard as an expression of their displeasure. That news report was cited in the new lawsuit as reflecting how outraged neighbors had become.
Kray’s lawsuit was first reported by BusinessDen, an online publication that focuses on real estate issues…