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Developer Forefront Power proposes 26-acre solar lease to Central York SD, estimates $78,000 a year in rent
Summary
Forefront Power presented a proposal to lease ~26 acres of Central York School District land for ground-mounted solar, offering $3,000 per acre with a 30-year term and a three-year due-diligence option; district members raised concerns about floodplain, future expansion and visual impacts.
Forefront Power representatives proposed leasing about 26 acres of Central York School District land to build two ground-mounted solar arrays, offering the district $3,000 per acre in the first year and an annual 2% escalation.
The proposal matters because it would produce recurring lease revenue for the district while requiring no capital outlay from the school district: Forefront said it would cover development, permitting, operation, maintenance and decommissioning costs and would run an option-to-lease due‑diligence period before any long-term lease.
Armand Shikori, a sales associate at Forefront Power, said the company initially identified two district-owned parcels and narrowed the proposal to a maintenance-area parcel with two buildable footprints. Victoria Maroney, who manages Forefront Power’s Pennsylvania distributed solar portfolio, said engineers estimate a combined 5-megawatt footprint split as a 2-MW northern site (~11 acres) and a 3-MW…
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