By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
The auction date for the old Barren County Health Department building has been set.
Barren County Judge-Executive Jamie Bewley Byrd announced that the auction of the 2.94 acres on West Washington Street would begin on April 10 and would conclude with the in-person auction on April 24. The county magistrates approved Bryant Realty and Auction’s contract to execute the sale.
The starting bid on the property is $50,000, according to Bryant Realty and Auction, and open houses are scheduled for April 10 and April 17.
Byrd had previously said the money from this auction would recoup some of the expenses incurred in the multi-year renovation of the former U.S. Bank building — now referred to as the Barren County Development Center — which the health department moved to in early February.
The auction company “will pay all advertising costs and expenses” for the auction with a 4 percent buyer’s premium added to the final bid on real estate and on personal property, According to the bid documents, which, essentially, is a 4 percent charge in addition to the “hammer price.”
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