SWARTZ CREEK, MI - The potential sale of Morrish Elementary School for $40 million is officially off the table, according to Swartz Creek Interim Superintendent Jim Kitchen .

Kitchen confirmed this week that the Swartz Creek Board of Education has rejected the Flint & Genesee Economic Alliance’s offer to buy the school as part of the proposed 1,300-acre Advanced Manufacturing District southwest of Flint.

“The board voted to reject the $40 million offer but told [the alliance] they would consider a higher bid,” Kitchen said in an email to MLive/The Flint Journal. “The alliance responded with the acceptance of the rejection and confirmed that they would be good neighbors during the development. I’m not sure if there will be any future communications regarding a proposal, but it’s clearly

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