Commerce Mayor John Ballotti says the city has been officially designated a "Go Texan Certified Retirement Community." And the mayor says the deed to the old A.L. Day Elementary School building has been transferred to Tipitina's, the New Orleans-based non-profit music organization that plans to open a facility in the old school.
Commerce designated 'retirement community'; way clear for Tipitina's
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