Photo courtesy Mariuca Rofick

Husband-and-wife team Nicole Pitts and LaMar Williams are closer to their dreams becoming a reality.

We always like it when a story we've followed for a while seems to be arriving at the long-anticipated happy ending. As of today, that seems to be the case with the Cooley Reuse Project , which aims to transform the architecturally significant Cooley High School, which has been vacant for a few years, into a multi-use commercial property. The duo driving the effort was husband-and-wife team Nicole Pitts and LaMar Williams.The project had seen some hopeful moments , and even some setbacks , but word came to us via a forwarded email that the project appeared to be on the verge of having the official go-ahead. The email from Nicole Pitts read:We'd like to offer our congratulations, while hoping they aren't premature, to Pitts and Williams and everybody else who's fought to find a new, community-oriented purpose for this historic building.