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Article: RESIDENTS DON'T WANT CITY TO TEAR DOWN JACOB PRICE.(News)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- February 11, 2006
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Byline: Greg Paeth Post staff reporter
The Housing Authority of Covington expects an answer next month on whether the agency can move ahead with plans to demolish the Jacob Price public housing project at 11th and Greenup streets.
The authority has asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for approval of a plan that would begin with the demolition of three of the 23 buildings this year, with the entire complex razed by 2009.
"By the end of March we should have their reading on the application unless they ask for more information from us," said Tom Schmitz, interim director of the housing authority.
Although the city ...