Concerns over Kimball Court Apartments
In a packed community gymnasium, St. Paul community members of the Hamline-Midway neighborhood got to question city leaders about a problematic apartment complex.
The complex in question is the Kimball Court Apartments. At the meeting was management from the complex and the partners they work with as a transitional housing complex, helping people off the street.
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It sits just a couple blocks north of the intersection of Snelling and University avenues.
“What I’m most concerned about is, ‘Why, knowing the concerns of the residents and community members, did you decide to extend?” one community member asked the panel about St. Paul City Council recently locking in $3 million to expand Kimball Court’s services.
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