District pays $3.5M for ECOT building

Columbus City Schools won an electronic auction Tuesday for the nowdefunct ECOT’s former sprawling South Side headquarters and almost 27 acres of land.

The district bid $3,155,500, but fees should bring the total to $3,471,050. With the district currently going through a process to close schools and consolidate administrative sites, why is it purchasing a new administrative site near the southern fringe of the district?

“When we can save dollars and better maximize the public resources we’ve been