Wausau wants to buy an abandoned former Habitat for Humanity home from Marathon County for $1 and demolish the house before an auction buyer can try to flip the property.
“The house is too dangerous to enter, the interior is covered in black mold,” city staff were told in a recent email, according to a memo from Community Development Manager Tammy Stratz. A county appraisal as of Aug. 5 valued the house at $0 because of its condition.
The Economic Development Committee takes up the purchase of 108 Myron St. on Wednesday. The committee will also consider a deed restriction meant to permanently bar industrial use at 1300 Cleveland Ave., the contaminated city-owned property across Cleveland Avenue from the Myron Street lot, according to a county map in the meeting packet…