Soap Factory tenants will receive $2,500 relocation stipends before new year, city says

Tenants at the Soap Factory Apartments — the low-cost downtown housing complex slated for demolition — will get their long-awaited $2,500 relocation stipends before the new year, city officials confirmed Thursday afternoon. The city's release of a timeline for the payments may draw to close months of questions Soap Factory residents have posed about the payments. Some who have already relocated from the complex — which is scheduled to be torn down to make way for a proposed minor-league baseball stadium development — said they expected cash already and need it to cover moving expenses.