LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Apollo Career Center plans to purchase the property of a Lima business that recently announced they are going out of business.
At Monday night's board of education meeting, Apollo board members voted to move forward with the purchase of the property that currently houses Dot's Pet Center for $350,000. In a Facebook post published on March 15th, Dot's Pet Center announced their plans to permanently close after serving the Allen County region since 1991. At Monday night's board meeting, Your Hometown Stations spoke with Apollo Superintendent, Keith Horner, about what the career center plans to do with the property.
"It's not often we have the chance to have an adjacent property come for sale. We're obviously growing, and it's an opportunity for us to maybe stretch out a little bit. Our initial purposes is that will be a CDL testing site office. It may be a little bit of storage. We might have some long-term plans, but those are really undefined but those immediate plans are for the CDL testing site to have there on facility on our campus," explains Keith Horner, Superintendent, Apollo Career Center.
In other business, Apollo board voted to accept an $18,000 offer for the purchase of 2632 Jonathon Drive. The property was once used for the career center's property program to build houses but was discontinued a few years ago.
