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The owners of landmarks are also successful at exploiting procedural loopholes. There is the well-known example of a century-old factory in Łódź—one of the first structures in Polish lands made of reinforced concrete—whose owner wanted to demolish the building. He effectively defeated attempts to serve him with the decision entering the building in the landmarks register for so long that the conservator finally had resort to substitute service by publishing a notice in the newspaper. The case was notorious also for the fact that the same owner had already reduced another landmark to rubble, despite undertaking to renovate the building when he bought it. The dispute was finally resolved at the Ministry of Culture, which ordered the owner to maintain fragments of the factory.
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