WORCESTER, Mass. - The City of Worcester has plans to buy three properties on the former Becker College campus.

City manager Ed Augustus will present plans to spend $4.6 million and will ask for a loan at next week's City Council meeting. 

The properties are the former health sciences education center, the Weller academic center, and the tennis courts.

Augustus says the buildings would be used by the Worcester Public Schools and the city. 

The tennis court would be turned into a park.

"Our adult education program is in the old Fanning trade high school and there is a lot of deferred maintenance in that building and we could move that program to a newer more modern facility and at the same time sell the old Fanning trade building and put it back on the tax rolls,” Augustus said. 

“In the case of the health science building, it’s an opportunity for us to take the Department of Health and Human Services which is spread over multiple city buildings and consolidate that whole division into one building and make them more efficient and provide them with a better workspace,” Augustus added.

Augustus is recommending the rest of the campus properties be sold to a developer who has renovated historical buildings throughout Worcester in the past for housing at affordable rates.