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Northern Cambria board weighs reuse and sale options for old high school after community group pitch
Summary
A Northern Cambria Community Development Corporation representative urged the board to pursue low‑income housing tax credits to convert the old high school to senior housing; trustees agreed to pursue parallel plans—grant/grant‑partner reuse and marketing the property if reuse proves infeasible.
Vicky Cassil, speaking for the Northern Cambria Community Development Corporation (NCCDC), urged the Northern Cambria School Board on March 3 to explore converting the district’s old high school into housing for older adults using low‑income housing tax credits.
"We had an agreement with [the] Johnstown School District that they would continue to pay all costs for the property," Cassil said, and noted that pursuing tax credits "can take three to four years." She told the board conventional financing in the local market would likely require rents that would be…
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