BERLIN — After over two years of delay, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Berlin City Council last week agreed to turn the former Brown School property over to a developer to be turned into apartments.
The city council Nov. 22 approved by a 7-1 vote an "option contract" with the real estate company New England Family Housing/TKB Properties for the transfer of the school property for $1.
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