Flooding forced tenants out. They want more help from their landlord, and Kansas City Allison Kite and Cortlynn Stark, The Kansas City Star
Mar. 8 Jarrod McDaniel was in bed late at night last month when the fire alarm sounded at his downtown apartment building. When he got downstairs, he said, the lobby was flooded.
A pipe had burst, cutting off power to the Professional Building Lofts at 11th Street and Grand Boulevard and forcing tenants out. Their landlord put them up at a nearby hotel.
But now, McDaniel, a special education teacher, and his neighbors are scrambling to get their belongings out of the building. Many of their leases have been terminated. And the building won t be habitable until May.
Long-troubled Kansas City apartment complex getting upgrade
Cloverleaf Apartments has long crime history
New management has taken over at a south Kansas City apartment complex where there have been shootings, fires and squatters living in vacant apartments, all subsidized by tax dollars.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Itâs a place where there have been multiple shootings and fires, and squatters have lived in vacant apartments.
And tax dollars have helped pay for it.
However, new management took over at the Cloverleaf Apartments in September and is working on improvements for the long-troubled complex.
Dorothy Simpson has lived at Cloverleaf since 2007 and said the complex has deteriorated over the years.