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Guilford County commissioners will talk about buying the Independence Center, a downtown Greensboro office building, in closed session at Thursday night's business meeting. The entire agenda is available here.

In December, the board authorized County Manager Willie Best to pay as much as $4 million for the building at Market and Eugene streets.

The plan was to move the tax and planning departments there from the County Courthouse. The county also wanted the building to house the tax collections unit, which now sits in a county-owned complex at Eugene and Lindsay streets. That property, located just across the street from First Horizon Park, could eventually be sold to a developer.

But the plan hit a hiccup when mold was reported in the Independence Center. Best said in late March that the county was testing the building to determine the extent of the problem.