What should MCPS do with the Kensington ES site?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It's County property, not specifically MCPS property.

My ideal would be a new combined library & rec center, like the one that just went up in Wheaton. Then the County could sell off the old library to a developer for something else.

But I doubt that will happen.

It it dedicated school land and MCPS has the right to reclaim it at any time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's County property, not specifically MCPS property.

My ideal would be a new combined library & rec center, like the one that just went up in Wheaton. Then the County could sell off the old library to a developer for something else.

But I doubt that will happen.

I wish they would have done more with that space, like an indoor pool. It seems like a nice space but lots of wasted use and the library is small.

Indoor pools are very expensive and so that may have been hard. However, I agree that the lobby is extremely large given the size of the overall facility, and I am not sure if some of those random rooms on the second floor will actually get used much. My wife also noticed the library was really just the same or smaller than an ordinary branch library.

Still, it's an attractive facility and it would be handy to have a library + rec center + playground space all together on one site.

And they're already building a new indoor pool in Silver Spring.

I thought that was just discussion and its a nightmare trying to get to downtown Silver Spring. Wheaton would be better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about make it a center PreK for WJ area?

This is a great idea.