YOUNGSTOWN Just weeks after the deadly gas explosion at 47 Federal Plaza East, the former site of Realty Tower, the owners stopped paying the property tax on the parcel.

According to the Mahoning County Auditor's office, the owners of YO Properties 47 LLC last paid the property taxes for the site on July 29, 2024. No payments have been made since that date.

Currently, including penalties, YO Properties 47 LLC owes $30,360.81 in back taxes.

Mahoning County Treasurer Dan Yemma says the property owners were unaware of the taxes that accrued, further clarifying that taxes were being paid by the mortgage holder, insurance paid mortgage in full, but the mortgage holder didn't pay the taxes, and the property group wasn't immediately aware. Yemma tells 21 News it's not unusual and that they will recommend that penalties incurred on taxes be revoked.

The building exploded on May 28, 2024, after third-party workers cut into an active gas line, leading to an explosion that killed 27-year-old Akil Drake and injured 8 people.

Brian Angelilli, listed on the Ohio Secretary of State's website as the statutory agent for Yo Properties 47, is also the owner of Green Heart Properties, the company that hired crews to work under the sidewalk of the Realty Building, which the city had hired to fill the building's basement vaults as part of the city's SMART2 project.

The National Transportation Safety Board reported that the investigation into the explosion stated that a four-person crew cut through a 3-inch pressurized natural gas and a 2-inch plastic service line, which led to gas meters on the building's east side.