CSD closes on purchase of Griffith Street K-7 location

The Community School of Davidson announced on its Facebook page Thursday that it had closed on the purchase of the K-7 building that has long been its home on Griffith Street - ensuring the school a permanence at this location.

Congratulations to the school and its administrators for completing this transaction and ensuring one of the institutions that makes Davidson a special place has its roots firmly planted here.

Readers will remember that the long-term status of the school was used by the former Davidson Board of Commissioners as a justification for approving the controversial hotel proposal next to the school in a lame duck vote just before leaving office last year.  Former elected officials misleadingly (and now clearly incorrectly) implied that the school would be moving from this location.  That justification was used in spite of the fact the school had a long-term lease allowing it to stay for more than a decade longer and that lease contained an irrevocable right to purchase the property - a right the school has now exercised.