Local Eyesores: the "Little Beirut" Building

What's your town's most infamous local eyesore?

More than any other place I've lived, Florida seems to be a magnet for weirdness. Yesterday, I wrote about the rediscovery of an "aborted suburb" on the outskirts of my hometown, and today I have another story of suburban development gone strange: a building down the street so ugly it's long been known by Englewood locals as "Little Beirut."

They started building it when I was a kid, in the late 80s. Fancifully dubbed "Vizcaya on the Bay," it was to be two identical, glittering (by Englewood standards, at least) glass office buildings that were going to help kickstart the local economy by attracting businesses from larger towns nearby; they were to be so beautiful, the legend went, that no company could resist leasing office space there. And indeed, when the first building was finished, it was easily the most attractive commercial building in town. People started getting excited. Lease applications poured in. And construction on the second building began in earnest.

What's your town's most infamous local eyesore?