HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -  An apartment building where two of the Sept. 11 terrorists briefly lived in South Florida will be demolished and replaced with a parking lot and swimming pool.

The crumbling building at 1818 Jackson St. has 55 outstanding code violations in the past decade, and felt “cursed” to a prior owner. Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, pilots on the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center’s twin towers, lived in a second-floor walk-up apartment for two months in spring 2001.

“It is one of life’s little treats to be able to demolish a property like that, where a monster used to reside,” said Bryan Grosman, an investor who recently bought the unnamed, 13-apartment complex. He owns a new housing development next to the doomed 48-year-old property.

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