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Nearly a decade after Niles Township High School District 219 bought a property in Niles to be used as a bus terminal, the Board of Education unanimously approved selling the unused property for just over $2.6 million at its meeting on Nov. 11.

The district purchased the property at 6119 Howard Street in Niles for $2.5 million in 2015, with the intention of utilizing it as a transit depot for the district’s buses and those of several other school districts in the area, as previously reported. Those plans, however, never came to fruition after the village of Niles denied the district a necessary zoning change, citing concerns that it would create increased bus traffic in an already industrial area of Niles.

The Board of Education approved

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