In April, Payne taped 73 pages of code violations across a glass storefront in the eerily empty Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills, one of the nation’s largest zombie malls. The disrepair included peeling paint, old rat traps and a crumbling wall at a former Dingbats restaurant.
“These are things that could have been easily fixed, but there’s so many of them that the dollar amount is exorbitant now,” said Payne, standing before his handiwork in a closed food court.
To the tune of $12 million. On a property assessed at $6 million. Insane.
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