The deal has been struck for East Carolina University's new School of Dental Medicine to obtain slightly less than 2 acres in Elizabeth City for one of its community service learning centers.

A quorum of seven of 13 members of ECU's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve accepting the 1.9-acre site for $1 from the Pasquotank County Board of Commissioners in a brief teleconference meeting held on campus Thursday.

The board delayed its planned vote in November to allow negotiations to continue, since Pasquotank commissioners had made some requests.

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