DULUTH — Having torn down all but two of the 14 homes she purchased on Park Point, leaving behind fenced-off empty lots and creating a public outcry last year, a billionaire owner is now selling several of her properties.

Kathy Cargill amassed the properties, totaling some 24 parcels, from 2021 to 2024, under North Shore LS LLC, but kept her plans for the lots under wraps, threatening to sue the News Tribune when asked about it and telling the Wall Street Journal later that she wouldn’t hold to her original plans of beautifying Park Point and perhaps bringing pickleball courts and a coffee shop to the neighborhood after Duluth Mayor Roger Reinert expressed concern over the loss of residential properties in the city.

It appears that at least some of her properties are destined for new

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