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Company Agrees to Buy Vacant Pontiac Central High School

January 28, 2015, 7:12 AM

The city of Pontiac got a dose of good news.

Justin Blitchok of hte Oakland Press reports that Lee Industrial Contracting of Pontiac has reached a purchase agreement with the Pontiac Board of Education to buy the sprawling and vacant Pontiac Central High School for $1,050,000. The building is nearly 500,000 square feet.

The company said it had yet to determine what it would do with the property, but it has some experience in the field. In recent years it rejuvenated the former Wisner School. 

The Oakland Press reports that Pontiac Central High School has been vacant since since 2009 and has been the target of vandalism. The school merged with  Pontiac Northern High School.

“The Board of Education wanted to ensure that this historic, monumental property was sold to someone they could trust that that could do something positive with it and leverage the community,” Superintendent Kelley Williams said Tuesday, according to the Oakland Press.

 


Read more:  Oakland Press


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