Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin announced today that demolition has been completed on The Vue apartments in the Central Park neighborhood.

The apartments had been the site of multiple fires and had been the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Office of the City Attorney for the City of Birmingham.

The Drug Nuisance Abatement Team in the city attorney's office sued The Vue on Prince, LLC, and Toorak Capital Partners, LLC, in August after the property owner failed to address multiple code violations and repeated fires at the multi-building property.

Crews representing owners of the property at 3128 Prince Avenue completed demolition on Wednesday.

"This is another example of our focus on removing blight from our neighborhoods," Woodfin said. "If private property owners harbor blight in our communities, we will hold them accountable through code enforcement and in the courts. I commend City Attorney Nicole King and DNAT for their role in ridding our neighborhoods of blight."

King created the Drug Nuisance Abatement Team five years ago.

The team has filed multiple lawsuits and worked with property owners to improve neighborhood safety, King said.

"The DNAT team in the Office of the City Attorney is dedicated to addressing problem properties that create a nuisance and public safety concerns for neighborhoods," King said.

"Residents were clear about their concerns at this location and we were committed to have this dangerous blight removed. Due to this successful effort, the property was demolished without additional cost to the city. DNAT is committed to breaking down blight one property at a time."