COLUMBUS, MS – Courtesy of The Dispatch, Zack Plair, and Emma McRae
The Lowndes County Board of Supervisors recently announced that they have settled on an agreement to purchase the current GT LINK building on Main Street, as they are in need of more office space than what their current office can provide. They plan to move in this fall, pending the completion of the LINK’s brand-new building; if the latter is not ready in time, they will pay rent to the county until it is.
“The eventual plan would be to have some shared space there for the supervisors,” Board President and District 2 Supervisor Trip Hairston told The Dispatch after the meeting. “Right now, we only have two supervisors who have dedicated office space. This would allow us to have a place for supervisors to have files or do some things like that.”
Pending approval, the building and adjacent lot will be sold for $700,000.
On a similar note, the LC School District’s central office will soon be moving, as well. Superintendent Sam Allison says that a deal has been sealed to acquire the old Ecolab office building at 512 N. Lehmberg Road. They hope to move in before next Fall’s school year starts: “The building had been sitting there for a while, and we’d even had the discussion before that it would be a nice office building as far as centrally located within our schools,” Allison told The Dispatch Tuesday. “You’re probably less than 20 minutes from any of our schools (there).”
The district paid $500,000 for the structure. “We’ll have to do some remodeling and some work to make it what we need it to be,” Allison went on to say. “It’s going to be our central office, so it sets up to put a board room there. … We’ll add some offices probably. We haven’t nailed all that down, but it’s going to serve us well.”
Please click here for the original articles: https://cdispatch.com/news/county-agrees-to-purchase-link-building-on-main-st/ — https://cdispatch.com/news/lcsd-acquires-old-ecolab-building-for-new-central-office/
image: LCSD acquires old Ecolab building for new central office – Emma Hardy/Dispatch Staff
