WEST BEND, Wis. — The Washington County Board approved a pitch to negotiate a sale for the empty UW-Milwaukee-Washington County property to a Christian school and a land conservation organization.

After shutting down more than a year ago, the UWMWC campus is closer to having two buyers.

Ozaukee Christian School will buy the building, and Cedar Lake Conservation will buy 60 acres of natural land.

County Executive Josh Schoemann pitched the idea to the board despite some community push-back from weeks prior.

"I have learned that in the last 12 years the way to save something is to sell something," he said. "It's a darn shame that we've allowed this conversation to become a fight between public schools and voucher schools, because it isn't that and shouldn't be that."

Sale of former coll

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