Roughly 1,500 child care providers in Missouri depend on state reimbursements to keep their doors open. For months, IT issues have delayed those payments.
LL Flooring, which was formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, said it was unable to find a buyer with necessary financing after discussions with multiple bidders.
Photos shared by family members showed the house in disarray, with dozens of cats weaving underfoot, standing on stacked crates and peering around doorways.
The improvements to be funded by the grant are unrelated to and predate the sinkhole that swallowed part of a soccer field at Gordon Moore Park in June.
โWe knew just talking to the public that a lot of people knew what happened,โ Hulsey said. โA lot of people were telling the same story about what happened."