KANSAS CITY, Kan. — In the culmination of a process designed to improve the financial situation of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kan., the school’s board voted May 12 to move from its historic inner-city campus to a suburban facility.
Lisa Wimberly Allen, the school’s dean and vice president for advancement, said May 18 that seminary officials are targeting the move for midsummer. The new location is a church facility in Shawnee, Kan., several miles southwest of the current campus. It will be the third site the seminary has occupied since its 1901 founding.
Seminary President Molly Marshall announced in February the school’s intention to move. At the time, she said the decision was largely financial because Central’s 82-year-old campus was too large and too out-of-shape — including $5 million in deferred maintenance and 11 buildings for only 130 students.
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