New River Campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What building do they plan to use?

If it's an existing non-residential space, I don't see how the neighbor can complain. If you live in a city, you're going to interact with other people.

I wonder what will move into their current space.

The existing space is residential. The school is trying to get it flipped to commercial. Amazing school and mission! Think about it...if one school or business can come in and flip a lot from residential to commercial, what does that say about future residential lots???

you realize every school, and many businesses do this, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The want to expand the school to 350 kids (expanding to add through sixth grade), day care center and health clinic open to the public. The issue in the neighborhood is not the mission of the school it is that there are already 12+ schools, the department of homeland security and the new buildings at the old Fannie Mae site that are already causing huge amounts of traffic in an area that already has dangerous traffic. They are under contract to purchase TTR old Buchanan estate which is on the corner of Nebraska, 42nd and Van Ness. With 350 kids, 90 faculty, many more staff, patients to the clinic, families of the infants and staff at the health clinic that will add more than 500 cars to the residential part of tenleytown.

Thanks for the NIMBY fear-mongering.

It would be a great addition to the neighborhood, more families would have more walkable and bikable options for their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:River told parents that it was heavily outbid on the old GDS campus by another independent school well-funded school (they didn't say, but the hint was that it was The Avenues or something similar). That independent school has, I believe, pulled out, thus the sale to DCPS.

River does not have a bus currently. They start at 18 months and go to 3rd grade. The bulk of the students are pre-K and under. There is an infants program, but it's exclusively staff kids and the hearing-impaired. The vast majority of the kids are from the DC Palisades area or surrounding environs, in accordance with "people don't want to commute long distances for preschool". (A small number of kids at River have cochlear implants and commute from wherever, but it's probably no more than 1 out of 10 kids overall.)

River currently offers audiology and other services for the hearing impaired. With the expansion, they'd turn that into a larger clinic, but it would still be specifically on being a specialty center for hearing challenges.

I think it was Avenues, yeah.

[Anonymous]

Any person who supports this must live in another neighborhood. The tenleytown neighborhood has 12+ schools and day care centers and the site River school is under contract for is in a residential neighborhood. This is not nimby it is all about safety and traffic. Where do you live? Not in dc I presume or in a neighborhood that is all residential that no one would dare try to build a school in it.

This corner is unsafe and Why not try the estate on 49th and windom? A better location and less traffic .

[Anonymous]

39th and windom not 49th

[Anonymous]

Seems risky to make the purchase knowing they have to make a zoning change.

It’s one thing to improve an existing school and another to build a new one in an already high traffic area.

[Anonymous]

I imagine they want a location that will attract a certain type of family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They would be building a new building at the corner of Nebraska, Van Ness and 41st St.

I hope it happens, it would be great for both the school and the neighborhood.

curious---why do you think this would be good for the neighborhood? It sounds like it will add a ton of traffic.

Disaster for the neighborhood.

River Preschool (5 days full) is $37k. It won’t be AU park kids going there with Janney a solid option. For free.

[Anonymous]

This is great news. I need MacArthur to free up.

[Anonymous]

It won’t free up, many schools moving in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They would be building a new building at the corner of Nebraska, Van Ness and 41st St.

I hope it happens, it would be great for both the school and the neighborhood.

curious---why do you think this would be good for the neighborhood? It sounds like it will add a ton of traffic.

Disaster for the neighborhood.

River Preschool (5 days full) is $37k. It won’t be AU park kids going there with Janney a solid option. For free.

People who like the school may also buy in the neighborhood for convenience. We are at a different private but this is what we did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It won’t free up, many schools moving in there.

Many? Like what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:39th and windom not 49th

That parcel is half the size.

This is really a non-issue. Every time NIMBYs claim traffic and parking woes, it never comes to pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They would be building a new building at the corner of Nebraska, Van Ness and 41st St.

I hope it happens, it would be great for both the school and the neighborhood.

curious---why do you think this would be good for the neighborhood? It sounds like it will add a ton of traffic.

Disaster for the neighborhood.

River Preschool (5 days full) is $37k. It won’t be AU park kids going there with Janney a solid option. For free.

Because Key is what exactly?

[Anonymous]

Oof, I wasn't sure what this was all about... I just read the plan. This would really crowd that area. Traffic would be a flipping nightmare, too. Why right there?!