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Columbus council authorizes agreement to relocate Historic Westville and hears reopening update
Summary
Council approved an MOA enabling the relocation of Historic Westville to South Lumpkin Road after board members said the nonprofit raised capital to reopen. Leaders told council the museum reinstated tax-exempt status and has a donor-advised fund and one year of operating reserves.
Columbus City Council on Dec. 9 authorized a memorandum of agreement to relocate Historic Westville to a city-owned site on South Lumpkin Road and heard a report from the nonprofit’s board and new executive director.
Thornton Jordan, who identified himself as a long-serving member of the Westville board, told the council the organization raised $7,000,000 to move and reopen the living-history museum in Columbus and that it had cleared outstanding…
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