Vestcor foundation buys city property slated for charter school


The Vestcor Family Foundation has closed on the purchase of two vacant parcels in the Mixon Town neighborhood, adjacent to Brooklyn.

The land is slated to be the site of the Jacksonville Classical Academy, a charter school affiliated with Hillsdale College.

The foundation paid $1.4 million for 2039 Forest St. and 2100 Forest St. in a sale that closed Thursday.

The City Council approved the sale of the property in March and rezoned it it May.

The property had been the site of a trash incinerator…

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