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School board reviews 61.7-acre Lee Road purchase and readies Poplar Hill middle school bids
Summary
Board members discussed a signed contract to buy 61.7 acres on Lee Road for a potential new school site and reviewed the bid and approval timeline for Poplar Hill Middle School construction, with appraisal, testing and county approval flagged as next steps.
The Rutherford County School System discussed a signed contract for a 61.7-acre parcel on Lee Road and the schedule for bids on Poplar Hill Middle School during a March work session.
Board members were asked to consider placing the Lee Road parcel under contract; the document in the packet would create a 180-day inspection period plus two 30-day extensions to allow soils testing, surveys, Phase I environmental work and other site evaluations. The proposed purchase price discussed in the meeting was $80,000 per acre, and staff said the contract would be contingent on county commission approval and a court action on a seller-side conservatorship in Davidson County.
The discussion mattered because staff described the Lee Road area as one of the county's fastest-growing…
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