A bankruptcy judge has signed off on a plan to prevent an electricity shutoff at the Leland House apartments in downtown Detroit and allow the remaining 75 or so residents to stay.

U.S bankruptcy Judge Maria Oxholm on Thursday, Dec. 4, approved the plan, which authorizes the owners of the rundown 22-story building to take out a $1.2 million short-term, high-interest-rate loan that is to be paid off if and when the building is sold next spring.

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