People who live in a Lexington neighborhood are voicing their concerns about a proposed student housing complex that they say would negatively impact their neighborhood. Pralltown is a historically black neighborhood off South Limestone, just across from the UK campus.
“This is my neighborhood and has been my neighborhood for 70 something years,” says Betty Boyd, President of the Pralltown Neighborhood Association
“This is where I raised my kids, all three of them, then my grand-kids who went to UK because they can walk to UK, played football for UK.”
Boyd is one of several residents who are pushing back against the proposed 7-story, 800-bed, private student apartment complex that would sit across the street from UK’s campus.
“Subtext, who is the company that is an outsider coming in and want to take our neighborhood and fix it up to accommodate the students, they are not worried about the community and we are the community,” says resident Teresa Forbes. “The students are here but you are saying that we are not important.”