UPDATED: School board approves $15.5 million purchase of Wells Fargo call center

Salem-Keizer School District leaders hope to build a larger home for alternative high school programs in a former bank call center, a major property purchase the school board approved on Tuesday.

The board unanimously signed off on spending $15.5 million to purchase a 15.9 acre Wells Fargo property at 355 Hawthorne Ave S.E.

About half the purchase price will be covered with $7 millon the school district received from the state in May, Superintendent Andrea…