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The City of Tampa plans to knock out blight in some at-risk neighborhoods. Most of the attention is on the Sulphur Springs neighborhood where Mayor Bob Buckhorn had some fun with a giant claw this morning.

“Now if I were you, I would hide the children and move out of the way because I’m going to knock this building down.”

And so he did.

Buckhorn took to the controls of a giant excavator to bring the condemned house down as part of a new neighborhood revitalization program called th...