CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Hundreds of iguanas have turned an abandoned building into their home in Cape Coral, but the city is ready to reclaim the space. A full demolition permit was granted on Wednesday afternoon, marking the beginning of the end for the structure.<\/p>\n
Heavy machinery was parked outside the gutted building as crews prepared for demolition. Shattered walls, dirty debris, and dangling wires surrounded the site. After paying more than $400 in fees, the city reported that crews had completed nearly 60% of their work.<\/p>\n
Mike Fuller, a seasonal resident for more than a decade, looked forward to the demolition.<\/p>\n
“It needs work. Yes, it needs work. It needs a facelift. Whatever goes in, there should be an improvement to the area,” said Fuller.<\/p>\n
He continued to express his concerns about the building’s current condition.<\/p>\n
“It’s bad now, because it all your grass, it’s not taken care of, your building doesn’t look good at all. No, it’s an eyesore for it,” said Fuller.<\/p>\n
The city stated that the next steps before demolishing the building include an erosion-control inspection and an abandonment inspection, both scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Hundreds of iguanas have turned an abandoned building into their home in Cape Coral,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-135581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-collaborator_gen_stories","12":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}