County to move annex jobs to the former Reisz school building on Spring Street.

There's good news in the morning newspaper.

Floyd OKs purchase of old school; Site would serve as office space, by Ben Zion Hershberg, (short shelf life for Courier-Journal links).

Hershberg writes:

Several dozen Floyd County employees will get new office space next year in the old M.L. Reisz Adult Learning Center on Spring Street.

The county's Board of Commissioners voted unanimously last night to buy the old school for $735,000 from the New Albany-Floyd County School Corp.

Most of the 35 to 50 county employees who will work there now have offices in the old Floyd County Government Annex Building on Grant Line Road, which will be torn down … After the offices move out, much of the annex will be demolished and a new youth shelter will be built.

Hershberg notes that owing the school corporation’s extensive renovations, very little extra money will be required to get the new office building up and running.

Simply stated, this is great news for downtown New Albany in general and NA Confidential’s neighborhood in particular, as there had been uncertainty about the future of the old Reisz school complex once the learning center moved to the former Northside Christian building on Grant Line Road.