College Park Plaza officially closed

The Tuesday deadline for all remaining College Park Plaza tenants to leave the now defunct apartment complex passed without incident, local officials said.

The Hill County Health Board voted Nov. 2 to close the College Park Plaza apartment complex after years of accruing various code violations and safety infractions. During a Jan. 17 meeting, members of the Health Board said five tenants had still not moved out and there was reason to believe some of them would not.

"There's some people pretty much embedded in that building, and I don't think they're leaving unless they are forced to," County...