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Knox County approves $142,500 property purchase and land-bank addendum to advance transit warehouse plan
Summary
The board approved a $142,500 purchase of a parcel from Thomas Hawkes and an addendum with the county land bank that returns three vacant parcels and secures $360,000 in credits toward a planned $1.1 million warehouse purchase; the board also approved a $74,250 design contract for the transit warehouse.
The Knox County Board of Commissioners voted Aug. 12 to buy a parcel from Thomas Hawkes for $142,500 and to execute an addendum with the county land bank that will free three vacant transit parcels back to the land bank while securing $360,000 in credits toward the county's planned warehouse purchase.
Committee member who presented the package told commissioners the county has been searching for a site for the water/wastewater administrative office and related functions and identified the Hawkes parcel as suitable. The…
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