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Committee moves into closed session to consider offer for Marathon Hall dormitory
Summary
Committee voted to go into closed session under Wisconsin law to deliberate negotiating strategy on a purchase proposal for the Marathon Hall dormitory at 518 S. 17th Ave., Wausau, from a nonprofit proposing refugee and supportive housing uses.
The Marathon County infrastructure committee voted to go into closed session to discuss a written offer to purchase the Marathon Hall dormitory at 518 South Seventeenth Avenue in Wausau and to deliberate negotiation strategy and sale-price thresholds.
Administrator Leonard told the committee the offer — from the Ethiopian Community Development Council (described in committee materials as a multicultural community center) — proposed a nominal purchase price and outlined uses including “temporary housing for newly arrived refugee families,…
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