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Ironwood buys Civic Center property from GCC for $1

By LARRY HOLCOMBE

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IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission agreed Monday evening to purchase the land the Pat O’Donnell Civer Center stands on for $1 from Gogebic Community College.

The purchased also included a 30-foot strip of parking along the north side of the Civic Center.

City Manager Paul Anderson said in a memo to the commission that the city needs ownership of the property in order to meet requirements of a Michigan Department of Natural Resources Land and Conservation grant it hopes to gain to help pay for a new ice making system in the Civic Center.

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