The Elizabethtown City Council met for a special meeting Monday.
After a brief closed session, the council approved a municipal order authorizing the transfer of property in a purchase agreement with 117 Properties LLC “for the transfer of 2.889 acres of properties along South Main Street and College Street to the city and the sale and lease agreement of the property at 200 West Dixie Avenue to 117 Properties LLC.”
Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said under the terms of the agreement, the city will trade the City Hall building for the former E-Town Laundry Company property. He said City Hall is out of space.
“We did lease that property beside us, which was the old High School Basketball Hall of Fame, which will eventually here in the next few months hopefully become our City Council chambers, and there’s some offices in that building that we can use as an annex until we get things squared away on the laundry property like we want to and get a design done for a new City Hall building or a new city campus complex down there and are able to move down there,” Gregory said.
Gregory said the city will sign a lease for the City Hall building and lease out the laundry building as warehouse space until ready to build the new city government campus.
City Council Member Marty Fulkerson said the city got where they needed to be on the agreement.
“We had to go out and lease more property to be able to have meetings for the Planning Commission and for the city, and still employees are on top of each other at City Hall, and as we continue to develop downtown, this is a step in the right direction for the future of Elizabethtown, and it’s not always about today, it’s about tomorrow,” Fulkerson said.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet September 8.
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