Blind and Deaf School Board Votes to Terminate Hillcrest Building Lease
By: Max Brantley, Arkansas Times
Updated: June 21, 2012
A long-running battle over a long-contested piece of property in Hillcrest took a surprising turn tonight.
The governing board for the state schools for the Blind and Deaf voted tonight to revoke its 99-year lease with Easter Seals for the building that once served as an Easter Seals training center at the east end of Lee Avenue, across a wooded draw from the school campuses.
Neighborhood opposition earlier defeated an effort by Easter Seals to sell the building and transfer the ground lease to a local businessman for offices.
Neighbors say the building is asbestos-riddled and incompatible with the surrounding residential neighborhood. Easter Seals has been trying to make some money out of it for years after moving to new quarters.
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