LIVERMORE FALLS – Traci Hollingdale is optimistic about the options she’s exploring to fill a mammoth former school on Baldwin Street.

One of the places she’s sure will go there is Curves, a 30-minute strength and cardiovascular exercise program for women.

The Wilton woman is in the process of buying the former SAD 36 Primary School, which was originally built as a high school in the early 1900s. The three-story brick building, which is estimated to be 5,000 square feet in size, sold at auction for under $25,000 on eBay, an Internet auction site, a few years ago to Bruce Powell and David Murphy from Oxford County. Both men were unavailable for comment Wednesday.

The school was auctioned because SAD 36 no longer needed it due to a new school built in Livermore and the town didn’t want it.

Hollingdale declined to say how much she is paying for the building because negotiations have not been finalized, she said, but it was more than the auction price. The building has been vacant for a few years.

Hollingdale plans to do renovations on the building, including installing a new heating system and painting.

“I’m pretty excited about it,” the registered nurse said. “I think it will be good for the community and surrounding area.”

It won’t be open late at night. Hollingdale, who owns a Curves in Wilton, said she’ll plans to have the Livermore Falls site open Oct. 6.

“I’m going to lease out the rest of the building,” she said. “I was just approved last week with commitment a letter to buy the building.”

There are 17 or 18 rooms in the building with classrooms on the first and second floors of about 900 square feet each, she said.

She plans to start filling the building as soon as possible. She’s considering a deli and coffee shop downstairs in the basement level where a cafeteria was once located, she said. She’s also thinking about an Internet cafe.

Other options she’s going to explore, she said, are leasing space to a nail salon, tanning salon and a clothing store. Three people interested in leasing space have contacted her, she said, and she plans to advertise.

The town of Livermore Falls valued the building and the 1.08 acres in 2002 at $109,100. Taxes assessed last year were $2,618.40.

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