Tuesday night, Greenville County Council approved the sale of land that includes the former Berea Elementary School to Campbell Young Leaders representing Legacy Early College (formerly Legacy Charter School).
Members of the Berea community have been battling off the sale of this property for years in hopes that the country may preserve one of the last standing historic structures in the Berea neighborhood. Council denied the sale in an earlier meeting this summer but after a motion to revisit the topic, they voted 8-2 in favor of selling the 4-acre lot $400,000.
Legacy plans to use the land to extend their campus, but the Berea Historic Society is currently pushing to make the property an historic marker.
