ROGERS -- The School District last week completed a real estate deal in which it acquired four acres across the street from Heritage High School for $475,000, said Jim White, the district's chief operations officer.
The undeveloped property connects two other pieces of land the district owns on the block defined by South Eighth and South Sixth streets and West Ash and West Olrich streets. It increases Heritage's property to about 47 acres. Rogers High School, in comparison, sits on about 60 acres.
The land was sold to the district by longtime resident Addison Rife and his daughter, Deborah Rife Reynolds. The property was appraised at $525,500 as of June, according to information from the Benton County assessor.
The School Board unanimously approved the deal at its meeting last month. District officials have no immediate plans for the land, White said.
"All we know now is we'll be working on the property a little bit, probably get some trees cleaned up, a little housekeeping," White said. "Probably in the near future we'll be looking at doing a feasibility plan to see what the possibilities are there."
NW News on 08/15/2015