The Broward County School Board approved the sale of a vacant Parkland property to Broward Health on Tuesday, moving ahead with a $14 million deal for land once planned as the site of a new elementary school.
The 10-acre property, commonly known as the Trails End site, is located near Trails End and University Drive. School district agenda records listed the buyer as Broward Health and set the sale price at $14 million, minus closing costs.
Broward County Public Schools purchased the land in 2006 for about $5.9 million. The city of Parkland contributed $850,000 toward the acquisition because the property was expected to be used for a school. No school was built there, and the site remained undeveloped…