Wayne County Commissioners last week voted to sell up to $60 million in bonds to be used to buy downtown's historic Guardian Building.
Excerpt: The purchase would also include the First Street Parking Garage, and a vacant bank building on Woodward Avenue at Congress Street.
Commercial tenants now occupying about 46 percent of the space in the Guardian Building, and paying about $2 million annually, will remain, County Executive Robert Ficano said.
Ficano said the county continues to negotiate with owners of the Old County Building at 600 Randolph to purchase that building, which houses the commission and executive offices.
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