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Executive Towers boasts a gym, a swimming pool and heated underground parking. Built in 1963 by the country’s top contructor of luxury apartments, its excellent access to Ohio’s downtown Toledo and the neighborhoods beyond made it an attractive place to live.

It was for all of these reasons and more that Kwiona Sprott moved into Executive Towers with her teenage son last July, paying $851 a month.

“I was excited to move here because they said they had a gym, a swimming pool, laundry, a vending machine room; it’s less than a mile from my job and the school my son plays football for,” she says.

But today, it’s fallen far from grace. The balconies across its 12 stories are rusted orange, as is much of the side of the entryway facade. Its parking lot is a sea of ice and crushed snow days after a major snowstorm.

Inside, it’s worse.