Schools
Plymouth-Canton School Board Approves Purchase Agreement for Starkweather Property
School board voted 6-0 in favor of a purchase agreement with Holbrook Development for the former alternative high school property in the amount of $1,050,000.
A purchase agreement has been signed between Plymouth-Canton school board members and Holbrook Development, LLC for the purchase of the Starkweather Alternative High School property in the amount of $1,050,000.
The Board of Education voted 6-0 on Tuesday in favor of the purchase agreement for the vacant property – trustee Kim Crouch was absent.
In 2012, the Board of Education voted to relocate the alternative high school program to the former Fiegal Elementary School, which closed at the end of the year.
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Phil Freeman, the district's assistant superintendent for facilities and operations, told the Observer and Eccentric that Holbrook’s plan for the 27,000-square-foot property involved building new homes and condominiums.
“That has the potential to help the district in terms of bringing in families with children,” Freeman told the Observer and Eccentric.
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