Nicolas Esposito takes a ride to meet the L&I inspector with contractor Kenny Grono of Buckminster Green. In search of efficiency, Grono has to live with confusion and uncertainty

An absentee landlord failed to secure the building and piled up more than $60,000 in unpaid property taxes, liens and building code violations

A successful and long-needed L&I crackdown on the owners of vacant buildings spreads from Port Richmond to the rest of the city