NORWICH – A special meeting of the city Common Council held Thursday afternoon found city officials unanimously authorizing the sale of the final two Restore NY II properties.

Funded in part through a grant from the Empire State Development Corporation, the two new homes, located at 52 Fair St. and 7 Waite St. will be sold for $100,000 and $94,000 respectively.

A third Restore NY II property at 23 Grove Ave. was authorized for sale in October of last year.

The three properties cost approximately $613,000 to construct, according to Mayor Joe Maiurano, $300,000 of which was funded through the Restore NY program.

“This has been a great program for the city and they’re absolutely beautiful houses,” said Maiurano. “We were very fortunate to receive this grant and it went a long way toward cleaning up these properties so we could get them back on the tax rolls. Otherwise, they’d be sitting there for who knows how long.”

Maiurano said he believed one of the dilapidated properties had been vacant for nearly three decades.