South Pittsburgh, Tenn., officials may buy this 38 acres of riverfront land near 12 Street and U.S. Highway 72 for use as a park.
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. — City leaders are making preparations to buy a tract of riverfront property with plans to build a large recreational facility there.
Mayor Mike Killian said he received a letter recently from a representative of Bertha Gonce that stated she wanted to sell the city about 38 acres of riverfront land near 12th Street and U.S. Highway 72 for $12,000 per acre.
The total price for the land would be $454,000 under those terms, officials said.
Killian said the land along the Tennessee River is an “excellent piece of property” with “good proximity” for a park.
“When I went into office, I wanted to get this done long ago,” he said. “There have been a lot of things happen here that we’ve had to deal with that have interfered with that.”