SAGINAW, MI — City crews cleaning up the mess at the former Saginaw County fairgrounds site may have inadvertently made purchasing the land a pricier pursuit for Saginaw City Hall, officials said.

Saginaw City Manager Tim Morales said the city continues to inch closer to inking a $20,000 purchase agreement to acquire from the Saginaw Housing Commission a one-acre slice of the property, which officials plan to transform into a public park.

The latest hurdle cleared: Permission from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the federal agency that has overseen the housing commission’s ownership of the property for two decades.

Morales said the housing commission received notice that HUD approved the language of the $20,000 purchase agreement. The city manager said he ant

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