A nonprofit educational group has paid $2.6 million for the former Marian High School on Union Avenue in Framingham.
The Weston-based nonprofit, Invictus Forever, which helps children and adults with disabilities, is planning a life skills development center on the site. The agency bought the site from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in a deal announced Monday by Metrowest Commercial Real Estate, which brokered the sale.
Marian High School, at 273 Union Ave., closed in 2018 because of declining enrollment, and the three-acre site was put up for sale through a request-for-proposals process in which the archdiocese considered proposed uses for the site in choosing a buyer.
Most proposed uses were for residential use, Metrowest Commercial Real Estate said. Invictus Forever wasn’t the highest-priced offer, but the educational use it proposed was appealing, lead broker Cheryl Tully Stoll said in a statement.
The site includes a four-story, 98,000-square-foot school facing Union Avenue and a three-story, 16,000-square-foot convent formerly used by the Framingham Heart Study. The site was last assessed by the City of Framingham at $8.8 million.
