LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A wrecking crew tearing down a 125-year-old former church damaged two adjacent homes when one of the church’s brick walls fell the wrong way. Now another home must be torn down, and a second neighbor is waiting to find out when a fence pole will be removed from her living room wall.

Aesthetic Industrial Contracting is one of two demolition companies that won the city’s emergency demolition contract last year. Louisville has paid it $1.7 million tearing down homes so far beyond repair the city orders them torn down.

At the site of the former church at 2332 Magazine St, where nothing but a hole and piles of bricks remain, the problem isn’t the building that’s gone. The city said the walls were collapsing and the church needed to go.

No, this problem is with two ne

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