Workers with the Leflore County Unit System will soon be moving into new digs as renovation work wraps up on the facility.
Once completed, the building in the Greenwood-Leflore Industrial Park — a 40,000-square-foot former warehouse — will house offices, equipment and storage space for the county’s construction and road crews.
Interior work has been completed on the facility, which was originally purchased by the county for $100,000 in 2010. Furniture is expected to arrive Tuesday, and a new sewer line should be hooked up by the end of the week, Leflore County Chancery Clerk Sam Abraham said this morning.
“We should be in the building by the end of the month,” Abraham said.
The new facility off Cypress Avenue just south of the Agri-Center will replace the Unit System’s current location in front of the Leflore County Civic Center on Mississippi 7. It will put most of the Unit System’s operations under one roof — though Abraham said satellite facilities in Minter City, Itta Bena and possibly elsewhere would likely remain in use.
The renovations are estimated to wind up costing about $600,000, according to Abraham.
The future of the Mississippi 7 facility hasn’t yet been determined by the Board of Supervisors, but the buildings there could house the county’s Solid Waste Department and possibly a fire truck used by county volunteer firemen, Abraham said.
• Contact Bryn Stole at 581-7235 or bstole@gwcommonwealth.com.
