The empty building once known as Longmont’s Old City Jail, located north of Ninth Avenue and Main Street, was condemned by the city Tuesday and is slated to be demolished later this week.
Public pressure mounted Tuesday for the city to do something about the building at 915 Main St. a day after Longmont Matters Radio posted a about transient drug users squatting at the dilapidated structure.
The building — built in 1969 with then-old materials on the site of North Longmont’s combination town hall and jail — is currently littered with trash, stained mattresses and used drug paraphernalia.
Owner Robert Martin said he hired a contractor to demolish the building, and that it was supposed to be demolished a year ago. But Martin said the contractor told him he had problems getting permits from the city.
Martin said he’s tried to keep drug users from squatting in the building, but to no avail.
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