{"id":155850,"date":"2026-01-30T01:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155850\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:54:07","slug":"demolition-approved-for-oakland-city-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155850\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition approved for Oakland City building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Officials have approval from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to demolish the former Strickland building on Main Street in Oakland City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The multi-story brick structure has sat vacant for years, become a growing safety concern for the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most of the backside of the building has collapsed, prompting officials to restrict access to the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City leaders said the building\u2019s deterioration posed risks to pedestrians, nearby properties, and drivers traveling through the Main Street corridor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WFIE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Officials have approval from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management to demolish the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-155850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}