Many in Antioch have had just about enough of the longtime, blighted, boarded-up storefronts that have become magnets for trash dumping, drug use and other illicit activities. Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe for one is proposing the city do what it can legally to clean up these eyesores where city code enforcement and fines have not worked, an idea he pitched at a press conference Tuesday and later again at a City Council special workshop he called afterward. “Today this corridor is an iconic symbol of decades of economic decline, neglect and disinvestment as the city has bulldozed its way into southeast Antioch,” Thorpe said, standing…
