Three months into its post-collegiate life, the future of the vacated Iowa Wesleyan University campus is starting to take shape, with the Mount Pleasant Community School District offering to buy a portion of the 60-acre property for $1.25 million.
The school district — home to seven schools in southeast Iowa with more than 2,000 K-12 students — offered the Iowa Wesleyan board of trustees $115,000 to buy the university’s former football practice field off Maple Leaf Drive and $1.135 million for a chunk of Wesleyan’s central campus.
That central campus portion includes the Howe Student Activity Center and Ruble Arena, the John Wesley Holland Student Union, the chapel, Old Main, the PEO Memorial Building, and Pioneer Hall.
