BELFAST, Maine (AP) - Some of the buildings on the campus created by credit card giant MBNA may soon be housing schoolchildren.
Regional School Unit 71 directors are looking into purchasing three now-vacant buildings for $7 million to $8 million to serve all the district’s kindergarten through second-grade students.
The proposal is part of a bigger plan to consolidate elementary schools, the Bangor Daily News reported.
“This is a big idea,” Superintendent Mary Alice McLean said at the April 26 meeting. “It basically involves the answer to the question of what are we going to do about our five elementary schools, four of which are very, very small.”
From 1995 through 2005, MBNA had been the midcoast’s largest employer, and the Belfast campus that once housed 3,000 MBNA workers. The three buildings were last used by Bank of America.
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