City officials effectively threw in the towel on constructing a conference center on the Oglethorpe block in downtown Brunswick on Tuesday, asking the Glynn County Commission to assist in repurposing roughly $3 million set aside in two past special-purpose local-option sales taxes for the project.

“We realize that we are a crossroads,” said Brunswick Mayor Cornell Harvey at a Tuesday night meeting between city and county commissioners. “I don’t think we are going to be able to construct this conference center given all the restrains and ramifications, but we would like to repurpose that in some way.”

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