[Tarsus]

I like this development but I also think school boards should stop selling off schools in communities at their lowest ebb. This would have been a decision about 10 years ago I would guess.

I agree. Hopefully with inner city neighborhoods on the rebound population wise the board will hang on to the schools from now on.

 

[adamyyc]

The other benefit of partnering with a developer for the school board is it reduces their costs for grounds maintenance.

So many of the City’s school yards are barren, treeless, dusty, dry, grass fields.

I don’t know if there are specific reasons why school yards never have trees (I assume it’s some ridiculous safety reason, if it’s not due to costs), but if I’m the City, with $61M of federal funding burning a hole in my pocket to plant trees, the school board is one of the first places I’m looking.

 

[Surrealplaces]

The other benefit of partnering with a developer for the school board is it reduces their costs for grounds maintenance.

So many of the City’s school yards are barren, treeless, dusty, dry, grass fields.

I don’t know if there are specific reasons why school yards never have trees (I assume it’s some ridiculous safety reason, if it’s not due to costs), but if I’m the City, with $61M of federal funding burning a hole in my pocket to plant trees, the school board is one of the first places I’m looking.

Exactly. The school's have huge fields that aren't well utilized, and it's not like it's really park land, it's like you said, a dry, dusty field. If they developed a third or a half of the total, there would be less grounds to look after and they could actually water and landscape them nicely, all while collecting lease money, or having trust money from a sale.