BUTLER TWP — The Butler Area School District school board Monday heard an update on the potential plan for Butler Middle School from District Superintendent Brian White.

White said Butler County has developed a relationship with Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation, a nonprofit organization that specializes in building rehabilitation and development.

White said he invited representatives from Pittsburgh Gateways to the board’s Aug. 8 meeting to discuss the building’s possibilities.

White said he and other community officials don’t want the prominent downtown building, which closed as the Butler Middle School at the end of the 2021-22 school year, to fall into disrepair and become dilapidated.

“I’m hoping at that time we are presented with a letter of intent,” White said. “What they would like to do is have a due diligence time period to essentially to start talking more formally with the people they are working with to build potential leases to help finance the building renovations.”

School board members will tour the closed middle school Tuesday afternoon, and administrators are organizing an open house for the school that will be announced on the district web site.