The former Delaware College Preparatory Academy adjacent to the Congo Legacy Center on West 28th Street is headed to foreclosure despite a significant renovation. SPOTLIGHT DELAWARE PHOTO BY NICK STONESIFER
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By Jacob Owens and Nick Stonesifer
The city of Wilmington intends to foreclose on a former school building that recently received a nearly half-million-dollar facelift, paid for by a state fund designed to help people suffering from opioid addiction.
City officials say they intend to take the property to sheriff’s sale within 60 days.
The city said it made the decision after the building’s owner – which includes prominent local businessman Ernest “Sammy” Congo Sr. – failed to pay more than $300,000 in property taxes on the building and on a neighboring parcel, located off West 28th Street.
Congo also owes an additional $388,000 in delinquent taxes on the two properties to New Castle County and to the Red Clay Consolidated School District.