With the New Year, comes the city of Branson’s decision on what to do with the old high school building on 6^th Street it purchased in 2011 from the Branson School District. A flexible, multi-use mix of tenants is what a special team of architects and design professionals recommended in December. City Administrator Dean Kruithof tells HometownDailyNews.com 8-million dollars in renovations the assessment team also suggested isn’t possible this year, but it’s a project that will be addressed over the next several years:

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Kruithof said Branson might also follow the lead of Sillwater Oklahoma– a city that took an old middle school, and turned it into a multi-dimensional community center that took almost 20 years to complete. 

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Branson may follow the lead of a city in Oklahomaas it figures out what to do with the old high school building on 6^th Street, that it purchased in 2011 from the Branson School District.  A team of architects and designers has told Branson that renovating the building could cost upwards of 8-million dollars. City Administrator Dean Kruithof tells HometownDailyNews.com that Stillwater took an old school and turned it into a viable part of its community over a long period of time, thus spreading out the money needed for the project:

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The City of Branson is paying off the 200-thousand dollar purchase price of the old high school over three years.

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Branson may follow the lead of a city in Oklahoma as it figures out what to do with the old high school building on 6^th Street, that it purchased in 2011 from the Branson School District.  A team of architects and designers has told Branson that renovating the building could cost upwards of 8-million dollars. City Administrator Dean Kruithof tells HometownDailyNews.com that Stillwater took an old school and turned it into a viable part of its community over a long period of time, thus spreading out the money needed for the project.