The owner of Tiffany’s Event Center has agreed to sell the building and the land it sits on to Brookfield Local School District, said school Supt. Toby Gibson.

The district plans to use the building to create a community learning center and expand its career-technical education offerings to students.

Tiffany’s is across the street from the school campus on Bedford Road and next door to the district’s administrative office.

The school board offered to buy the property for $600,000 from Tiffanies Inc., an organization controlled by the Winner family of Sharon. The sale does not include the Tiffany’s liquor license or equipment, which Tiffanies Inc. will sell through other means.

The agreement calls for a closing date of March 12, and the school district to take possession on April 30. That allows Tiffanies Inc. to honor contracts for weddings, banquets, parties and other bookings through March.

The district has general fund money and financing options for the purchase, said Treasurer Jordan Weber.

The Tiffany’s property covers 2.87 acres, and the building – put up in 1987 – has more than 17,000 square feet, according to a posting on Loopnet.com

District officials had trades people in roofing, electricity and heating, ventilation and air conditioning evaluate the building prior to making the offer, Gibson said.

“There’s some items that, prudently, we’d want to get addressed pretty quickly, HVAC and some roof repairs,” Weber said.

With the sales agreement in hand, district officials will now start planning for the dual use of the building: as a community center and career-technical education center.

“Starting to meet with healthcare providers for potential partnerships in school-based clinics,” Gibson said Nov. 20. “Those meetings will start here in the next week or so as we continue to try to find some primary healthcare for our students.”

Officials also would like to offer behavioral health services from the center, and have public meeting space available, Gibson said.

Simultaneously, officials are “working through the details of the CTE equipment grant that we were awarded, trying to finalize our plans in terms of the actual equipment and the pathway details.”

In September, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce announced it had granted Brookfield more than $1.4 million from the Ohio Career Technical Education Equipment Grant Program to create an engineering and science technologies program. While the grant money could not be used for the purchase, it could be used for renovation and equipment, Gibson said.

“The next step, once this is done, is to find that architect to take all these discussion points and see how we can remodel that facility, try to stay within that budget of our grant funding,” Gibson said.

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