Odyssey Charter School has been trying for nearly two years to find—and fund—a new location to expand its K-7 offerings into a K-12 school. And thanks to the efforts of real estate and land-use attorneys at Tarabicos Grosso and public finance and tax lawyers at Ballard Spahr, that goal was met last month through what one of the lawyers said was the largest charter-school bond financing in the state’s history.

On Feb. 18, the Wilmington charter school cleared the final hurdles of obtaining a $34.6 million tax-exempt bond that largely went to closing on a real estate deal to purchase and renovate 35 acres of the Barley Mill Plaza office park.