In with the new? City counteroffers Dollar General

By: 
Bethany Carson

sites/default/files/Dollar General.png

At the Clarksville city council meeting Monday evening, the council voted in favor of selling the four city-owned lots on Main Street to Dollar General. The city counter-offered $40,000 as the sale price.
     The vote was unanimous with one council member, Jeff Kolb, abstaining because of his involvement as Butler-Grundy Development Alliance Executive Director.
     Dollar General had originally offered $10,000 for the four lots. During the public hearing, the sale price was the first question Clarksville residents asked.
     Kolb said the assessed value was roughly $5000 a lot. City Clerk Lori Peterson said that roughly to date, the city has put $131,000 into the lots for demolition of the old buildings last year, deed work, attorney fees, etc.
 
Read more in the June 21 edition of the STAR.

Tribune-Journal & Star

101 N. Main St.
P.O. Box 788
Clarksville, IA 50619
Phone: 319-278-4641

Mid-America Publishing

This newspaper is part of the Mid-America Publishing Family. Please visit www.midampublishing.com for more information.