The Cherokee County Historical Society has offered to buy for $300,000 two properties on the site of the district’s proposed new administration building at Main and Academy Streets in downtown Canton.
The offer, along with proof of bank financing was submitted to Superintendent Frank Petruzielo late this week. The Cherokee County Board of Education has set an executive session to consider real estate at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Canton High School board auditorium, 111 Academy St.
Last week, the superintendent released an architectural rendering of the proposed 3-story, $9.9 million administration building, and said that the current administrative buildings on-site, a former grammar school and a cotton mill office should be demolished. Petruzielo said renovating the buildings would cost millions more than a new structure, and would nor produce as much useable space.
The historical group had asked district officials to preserve at least one of the properties and incorporate it into the new administrative complex.
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