Tuesday night the La Conner Town Council had the purchase of Hedlin’s Ballfield on their agenda.

The Council was to approve an agreement with Frank Jeretzky, a commercial loan officer with Mountain Pacific Bank, to buy the property for $800,000, about $25,000 more than the Town’s asking price.

The deal enables Landed Gentry Homes, a leader in residential development in Skagit County for more than four decades, to build 10 single-family homes on 70 per cent of the nearly two-acre site, which for decades has served as a community youth sports venue along primarily residential Maple Avenue...