The government is using an online auction to sell a former U.S. Army Reserve Center.

The highest bid as of Monday morning was $35,000 for the 3.64 acre site, which includes three buildings. The training reserve center in the town 40 miles southeast of Gary housed about 50 military personnel before it closed in 1993.

Bidding could end Tuesday, although if there are more bids that day the auction will continue until bids stop coming in, said Lisa Tangney, realty specialist for the General Services Administration, which handles disposal of unused government property.

The reserve center includes a 10,000-square-foot red brick administrative building built in 1958, a 1,000-foot maintenance building and a 900-square-foot concrete storage shed.

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Posted: 04|10|06 at 4:04 pm. Filed under: US News.