Delays at Province Apartments; Kent State Students may be Housed in Hotel Rooms
Need for multiple inspections at 596-bed complex delayed issuance of occupancy permits.
Some students at Kent State University will be living in hotel rooms to start the new school year because of construction delays at a new, off-campus student apartment complex. The privately developed Province at Kent student housing on South Lincoln Street will not have its occupancy permit for at least one of its nine residential apartment buildings by the time school starts on Monday. Bridget Susel, acting head of the Kent Community Development Department, said the delays are due in part to the fact the city's building department has had to conduct multiple re-inspections of three of the complex's residential buildings. One building — the 168-tenant Building 10 — is at least two weeks away from receiving an occupancy permit, Susel said…
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