The Mary Packer Cummings Memorial School in Packerton is nearing completion of a renovation and will soon reopen as a third location for the alternative school, Educare.

Over the last two years, Donald “Duke” Blauch, the building owner, had rebuilt almost every facet of the 10,000-square-foot building, except for its foundation, bricked stairways and exterior walls.

Blauch, whose last large renovation was the YMCA building in Jim Thorpe, purchased the Packerton school building at an auction for $93,250 in 2003.

Since then, he has replaced the electrical, plumbing and heating in the building and had redesigned the interior rooms, according to code, to meet the needs of the Educare program.