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Highlands board moves to convey visitor center to Chamber and approves one-year $1 lease

3355871 · May 17, 2025
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Summary

After legal review, the board voted to pursue a statutory conveyance of the visitor center to the Highlands Chamber with a reversionary clause and directed the chamber to pay conveyance costs; the board also approved a one-year $1 lease while broader occupancy-tax issues are resolved.

The Highlands Town Board voted to pursue conveying the visitor center property to the Highlands Chamber of Commerce under a state statute that allows conveyance with a reversionary interest, and it directed the Chamber to bear closing costs for that conveyance.

Town Attorney Nick Tosco outlined three options: proceed with the current lease arrangement (including a landscaping payment), convey the property under a statute allowing a reversionary interest with no monetary consideration other than the Chamber’s promise to…

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