UPDATED: Selectmen Vote to Offer State Memorial Building & Danforth Building for New Mass Bay Community College Campus

Town Manager Bob Halpin announced to Framingham Town Meeting that Framingham Selectmen took a vote tonight, Oct. 21. to offer two town buildings and a garage to the state for a proposed Mass Bay College campus in Framingham.

Halpin described it as a “vote on the future of Memorial Building and for the new campus for Mass Bay Community College.”

Selectmen voted to authorize the Town Manager to submit a proposal, which will need eventual approval of Town Meeting, for the sale of the Danforth Buiilding, the Memorial Building and the Pearl Street garage to the state for a proposed new Mass Bay Community College campus in downtown Framingham.

The plan is for the sale to be enough to find a replacement for both municipal office space and school administrative offices.

The vote was 4-0.

Halpin said the proposal to the state would include a preservation easement, which would allow access to the Veterans Memorial in the front of the Memorial Building.

Framingham Patch is live blogging at Town Meeting and will update with more details later.