City Tears Down Crumbling Airport Highway House After Neighbors Raise Alarm
TOLEDO, Ohio — All that remains of a house on Airport Highway near Hanover in Toledo is a pile of debris.
Neighbor video shows the house was torn down in late October, and a demolition company was cleaning up what was left this week, according to a follow-up report from 13abc, published Nov. 11 and updated Nov. 13, 2026.
Next-door neighbor Joshua Shields came to 13 Action News in October about the home, hoping the station could help. “It’s just been a nightmare living there,” Shields said in the station’s Oct. 15 report.
The demolition followed a final 72-hour demolition order issued Oct. 15, 2026, to the property owner, 1850 Capital III LLC, which lists a mailing address in North Canton, Ohio. The order came after nuisance orders dating to December 2025 and structural-instability orders in March 2026. Inspectors cited a crumbling foundation, rodent infestations and junk accumulation at the property, according to background reporting on the Oct. 15 demolition order.
The house had drawn months of complaints from Shields and other neighbors before the city acted. With the structure now torn down, cleanup of the remaining debris was underway this week.
Photo: Demolition of the former Longcross House in Cardiff, by Gareth James, via Geograph, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0. The image is illustrative and does not show the Airport Highway property.