This recent photo of the former Winnebago School building shows the current condition of the site. The building and grounds was recently purchased by a firm located in Rochester, Minnesota, which plans on developing it for several possible uses.

The former Winnebago school building has been sold again, this time to a firm located in Rochester.

Samuel Prabhakar, the president of P.D. Solutions of Rochester, confirmed his company had purchased the building from the previous owner, Garth Carlson.

“We develop projects to help communities,” Prabhakar said in an interview with the Faribault County Register last week. “Our plan is to develop the property into a multi-purpose facility.”

He said they know the building needs a lot of work, but they are looking at what opportunities there are for the site.

“It could be the gym is used for activities and meetings, that businesses could locate in other parts of the building,” he explained. “We might partition off some of the building and be renting it out.”

Prabhakar said he did not wish to speculate too much at this time as to the possible uses of the site, but just that they plan to develop it into whatever is needed and work with the community for that development.

The city of Winnebago purchased the building from the Blue Earth Area School District on Nov. 1, 2019, after the BEA District had closed down the elementary school and moved those classes to the Blue Earth Elementary site.

Around May 3, 2020, the city of Winnebago sold the building to Garth Carlson of Veterans Enterprises LTD of Madelia.

Carlson’s company did some remodeling and was planning to use it as a veterans service facility.