COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Branch County Administrator Bud Norman told the County’s 911 Communications Board on Wednesday that he expects to report to them during next month’s meeting a buyer for the old Lakeland Elementary School on Otis Road.
Norman said they had multiple people interested in the building.
He indicated the county will not make a lot of money on the sale.
The old Lakeland School south of Coldwater closed in April of 2021 following almost 60 years of service after the new fourth and fifth grade Lakeland School was built on Western Avenue in Coldwater.
Coldwater Community Schools sold the building and land to Branch County in May of 2021. It became one of five locations for new 911 towers.
The school district and the county agreed to a purchase price of $150,000.
Norman told the Board of Commissioners during their April 20 work session they wanted to sell the building as soon as possible. He added at the time there were six interested parties in the property with three of them showing a substantial interest.
The county has had a problem with break ins and vandalism at the old school. Three juvenile boys were taken into custody by the Branch County Sheriff’s Department on April 20 after they broke in and ransacked the building. Deputies had just been at the school the day before to clean up from a previous breaking and entering so they could conduct training the following week.
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