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WEB EXTRA
Bradford
College sale completed
Sale
paves way for Zion Bible College to move to Haverhill
 Haverhill
Mayor Mayor
James J. Fiorentini has proudly announced that the former
Bradford College campus was officially sold today at a
closing to Hob-Lob Ltd., an affiliated company of the
Hobby Lobby Stores of Oklahoma City, OK.
After various renovations are undertaken, the campus will
be occupied by Zion Bible College, presently located in
Barrington, RI In about one year, Hob-Lob Ltd. will
donate the college property to Zion. The closing ends
more than a year of negotiations and attempts by Zion to
acquire the former Bradford College campus, which has
been vacant for more than six years.
“This long-awaited moment in Haverhill’s
continuing renaissance has finally occurred, and I’m
thrilled to have an educational institution back on this
historic campus,” stated Mayor James J. Fiorentini.
“We look forward to working with Hobby-Lobby
officials to get the campus back to life with students,
educators and families.”
Bradford R. Martin, an attorney with Morrison Mahoney,
LLP who served as local counsel for Hobby Lobby and has
been working with Zion for the past 15 months, stated:
“The acquisition of the campus provides a bright
future for Zion and is another part of the significant
progress that Haverhill has made over the past few years.
“The
remarkable generosity of the Green family has made all of
this possible for Zion,” Attorney Martin added.
“We are appreciative of the support of Mayor
Fiorentini who consistently held out for an educational
use of the property, and in particular the proposed use
by Zion Had he relented to the pressure to re-zone the
campus, none this would have been possible,” he
noted.
Mayor Fiorentini pointed out that: “our hard work
and persistence has paid off. I want to congratulate the
members of the Bradford College Neighborhood Association
for their diligence in this matter as well.”
Zion will be a great addition to the City,”
predicted the Mayor. “In its beginning 200 years
ago, Bradford College was a training ground for notable
Christian missionaries such as Ann Haseltine Judson and
other historic Bradford figures. With Zion, the campus
returns to this proud tradition,” added the Mayor.
Work on renovations will commence on a
building-by-building basis almost immediately, in
accordance with several historic preservation
restrictions. Representatives from Hobby Lobby will be on
site. It is anticipated that Zion will move in during the
summer of 2008 and commence classes in Bradford next
fall.
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The November 2007
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