ADAMS, Mass. — Town meeting members will decide nine articles at a special town meeting next week, including the disposition of the 72-year-old Memorial Building. 

 

It will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 6 p.m. at the Memorial Building, a former school building. 

 

Mackin Construction Co. Inc. of Greenfield plans to invest $11 million to build out 20 or more one- and two-bedroom apartments in the three-story classroom wing that parallels Columbia Street. 

 

Article 5 on the special town meeting warrant would authorize the Selectmen to sell the school to Michael Mackin for $50,000 and negotiate a 20-year lease with options to renew for a portion of the building that includes the gym and auditorium. The town has long planned to move the Council on Aging on the building and to continue to use it as a voting and meeting location. 

 

The former Adams Memorial Middle School was built in 1952 as a high school and was later an elementary school. It was closed in 2009 because of budgetary and building issues and reopened for a year during the renovation of Hoosac Valley High School.

 

The article was one of only two that were not held for further discussion or comment by the Selectmen at their meeting Nov. 20. The other was Article 6, a 10-year special tax assessment for the Adams Theater. 

 

Theater owner Yina Moore plans to invest $1.5 million in completing the Park Street theater for year-round use by 2026.