Projected Overcrowding in High School APSVA

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed. HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school.

The fraud part is that it has shifted from being a program with a strong personality (right for some kids, not others, somewhat self selected) into being the golden ticket to escape the crowding. I didn't mine HB when the other kids weren't getting short shrift.

PP is also ignoring that HB was resource hoarding: the only option they recognize is retaining of the largest plots of land in APS portfolio OR a marquee $100M building.

They should have bought an existing office building and repurposed it for HB, and then had money left over for the 4th high school.

Also; HB refusal to increase the size of the program is criminal when all other schools are crushed.

There is nowhere in Arlington that APS could buy a building and renovate it for less money than it cost to build the building at Wilson, just as it was impractical to rent or do any of the other things that have been discussed. The best option, cost- and capacity-wise, was for H-B to stay at Vacation Lane and a new middle school be built in Rosslyn, but there was a ton of pushback to having that many students/buses in Rosslyn and having a middle school with no fields.

Arlington is obsessed with staying under the debt limit and had numerous capital projects underway, not just several schools but also things like the new aquatic center. They were looking for any option that would give them the most seats for the least money. I don't know why people are still beating this dead, rotting, horse corpse but for the love of God let it go.

Finally, have you been in that building? Inside, the walls, floors, and ceilings are all unfinished concrete. It may look fancy in the architectural drawings, with its levels and terraces, but inside it is a regular old high school. With a ton of stairs and long corridors. Lots of rooms are underground. And it is freaking loud, because it is all hard surfaces.

BS. A standard office tower structure would have been far cheaper than the award winning LEED design they pushed. They should have saved money so they would have reserves for the 4th high school. Pouring all that unfinished concrete is far more expensive then framing out interior walls and drywall.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed. HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school.

The fraud part is that it has shifted from being a program with a strong personality (right for some kids, not others, somewhat self selected) into being the golden ticket to escape the crowding. I didn't mine HB when the other kids weren't getting short shrift.

PP is also ignoring that HB was resource hoarding: the only option they recognize is retaining of the largest plots of land in APS portfolio OR a marquee $100M building.

They should have bought an existing office building and repurposed it for HB, and then had money left over for the 4th high school.

Also; HB refusal to increase the size of the program is criminal when all other schools are crushed.

There is nowhere in Arlington that APS could buy a building and renovate it for less money than it cost to build the building at Wilson, just as it was impractical to rent or do any of the other things that have been discussed. The best option, cost- and capacity-wise, was for H-B to stay at Vacation Lane and a new middle school be built in Rosslyn, but there was a ton of pushback to having that many students/buses in Rosslyn and having a middle school with no fields.

Arlington is obsessed with staying under the debt limit and had numerous capital projects underway, not just several schools but also things like the new aquatic center. They were looking for any option that would give them the most seats for the least money. I don't know why people are still beating this dead, rotting, horse corpse but for the love of God let it go.

Finally, have you been in that building? Inside, the walls, floors, and ceilings are all unfinished concrete. It may look fancy in the architectural drawings, with its levels and terraces, but inside it is a regular old high school. With a ton of stairs and long corridors. Lots of rooms are underground. And it is freaking loud, because it is all hard surfaces.

BS. A standard office tower structure would have been far cheaper than the award winning LEED design they pushed. They should have saved money so they would have reserves for the 4th high school. Pouring all that unfinished concrete is far more expensive then framing out interior walls and drywall.

OK, well that is on the School Board, not H-B. Again, H-B would have stayed at Vacation Lane and they could have built a middle school -- at some price -- at the Wilson Building. Don't forget after H-B moved out they spent $40 million to expand Vacation Lane as a middle school.

So much yelling about adding 200 or 400 seats to H-B, like that would make a difference in overcrowding across the three high comprehensive schools (it would certainly have driven up the cost of building in Rosslyn if they went above 4 stories), when the real issue is that there has been a 10 year failure to appropriately plan and budget across all levels.

Plus a refusal by parents to accept the most obvious solution, which is increased CLASS SIZE (not more classes), which has a huge affect on the operating budget per student and affects capacity in lots of ways. If we had bumped them all up by more than 1 or 2 back in 2008, we would have more room, more money, and more flexibility now. But people acted like that was the equivalent of destroying kids' educations, so instead they have been in trailers for 8 years and are now going to high schools where they have no chance of making a team or the school play because we can't afford a fourth high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed. HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school.

The fraud part is that it has shifted from being a program with a strong personality (right for some kids, not others, somewhat self selected) into being the golden ticket to escape the crowding. I didn't mine HB when the other kids weren't getting short shrift.

PP is also ignoring that HB was resource hoarding: the only option they recognize is retaining of the largest plots of land in APS portfolio OR a marquee $100M building.

They should have bought an existing office building and repurposed it for HB, and then had money left over for the 4th high school.

Also; HB refusal to increase the size of the program is criminal when all other schools are crushed.

There is nowhere in Arlington that APS could buy a building and renovate it for less money than it cost to build the building at Wilson, just as it was impractical to rent or do any of the other things that have been discussed. The best option, cost- and capacity-wise, was for H-B to stay at Vacation Lane and a new middle school be built in Rosslyn, but there was a ton of pushback to having that many students/buses in Rosslyn and having a middle school with no fields.

Arlington is obsessed with staying under the debt limit and had numerous capital projects underway, not just several schools but also things like the new aquatic center. They were looking for any option that would give them the most seats for the least money. I don't know why people are still beating this dead, rotting, horse corpse but for the love of God let it go.

Finally, have you been in that building? Inside, the walls, floors, and ceilings are all unfinished concrete. It may look fancy in the architectural drawings, with its levels and terraces, but inside it is a regular old high school. With a ton of stairs and long corridors. Lots of rooms are underground. And it is freaking loud, because it is all hard surfaces.

BS. A standard office tower structure would have been far cheaper than the award winning LEED design they pushed. They should have saved money so they would have reserves for the 4th high school. Pouring all that unfinished concrete is far more expensive then framing out interior walls and drywall.

OK, well that is on the School Board, not H-B. Again, H-B would have stayed at Vacation Lane and they could have built a middle school -- at some price -- at the Wilson Building. Don't forget after H-B moved out they spent $40 million to expand Vacation Lane as a middle school.

So much yelling about adding 200 or 400 seats to H-B, like that would make a difference in overcrowding across the three high comprehensive schools (it would certainly have driven up the cost of building in Rosslyn if they went above 4 stories), when the real issue is that there has been a 10 year failure to appropriately plan and budget across all levels.

Plus a refusal by parents to accept the most obvious solution, which is increased CLASS SIZE (not more classes), which has a huge affect on the operating budget per student and affects capacity in lots of ways. If we had bumped them all up by more than 1 or 2 back in 2008, we would have more room, more money, and more flexibility now. But people acted like that was the equivalent of destroying kids' educations, so instead they have been in trailers for 8 years and are now going to high schools where they have no chance of making a team or the school play because we can't afford a fourth high school.

Stop with the straw man. HB didn’t need expensive building or keeping the largest campus to their tiny school.

Wilson site was appropriate, and a functional flexible space would have been a better investment. But they had to be cajoled into moving so they were promised a trophy school.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed. HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school.

The fraud part is that it has shifted from being a program with a strong personality (right for some kids, not others, somewhat self selected) into being the golden ticket to escape the crowding. I didn't mine HB when the other kids weren't getting short shrift.

PP is also ignoring that HB was resource hoarding: the only option they recognize is retaining of the largest plots of land in APS portfolio OR a marquee $100M building.

They should have bought an existing office building and repurposed it for HB, and then had money left over for the 4th high school.

Also; HB refusal to increase the size of the program is criminal when all other schools are crushed.

There is nowhere in Arlington that APS could buy a building and renovate it for less money than it cost to build the building at Wilson, just as it was impractical to rent or do any of the other things that have been discussed. The best option, cost- and capacity-wise, was for H-B to stay at Vacation Lane and a new middle school be built in Rosslyn, but there was a ton of pushback to having that many students/buses in Rosslyn and having a middle school with no fields.

Arlington is obsessed with staying under the debt limit and had numerous capital projects underway, not just several schools but also things like the new aquatic center. They were looking for any option that would give them the most seats for the least money. I don't know why people are still beating this dead, rotting, horse corpse but for the love of God let it go.

Finally, have you been in that building? Inside, the walls, floors, and ceilings are all unfinished concrete. It may look fancy in the architectural drawings, with its levels and terraces, but inside it is a regular old high school. With a ton of stairs and long corridors. Lots of rooms are underground. And it is freaking loud, because it is all hard surfaces.

BS. A standard office tower structure would have been far cheaper than the award winning LEED design they pushed. They should have saved money so they would have reserves for the 4th high school. Pouring all that unfinished concrete is far more expensive then framing out interior walls and drywall.

OK, well that is on the School Board, not H-B. Again, H-B would have stayed at Vacation Lane and they could have built a middle school -- at some price -- at the Wilson Building. Don't forget after H-B moved out they spent $40 million to expand Vacation Lane as a middle school.

So much yelling about adding 200 or 400 seats to H-B, like that would make a difference in overcrowding across the three high comprehensive schools (it would certainly have driven up the cost of building in Rosslyn if they went above 4 stories), when the real issue is that there has been a 10 year failure to appropriately plan and budget across all levels.

Plus a refusal by parents to accept the most obvious solution, which is increased CLASS SIZE (not more classes), which has a huge affect on the operating budget per student and affects capacity in lots of ways. If we had bumped them all up by more than 1 or 2 back in 2008, we would have more room, more money, and more flexibility now. But people acted like that was the equivalent of destroying kids' educations, so instead they have been in trailers for 8 years and are now going to high schools where they have no chance of making a team or the school play because we can't afford a fourth high school.

Stop with the straw man. HB didn’t need expensive building or keeping the largest campus to their tiny school.

Wilson site was appropriate, and a functional flexible space would have been a better investment. But they had to be cajoled into moving so they were promised a trophy school.

DP. APS would have constructed a trophy school regardless. They are not interested in building new, generic schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed. HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school.

The fraud part is that it has shifted from being a program with a strong personality (right for some kids, not others, somewhat self selected) into being the golden ticket to escape the crowding. I didn't mine HB when the other kids weren't getting short shrift.

PP is also ignoring that HB was resource hoarding: the only option they recognize is retaining of the largest plots of land in APS portfolio OR a marquee $100M building.

They should have bought an existing office building and repurposed it for HB, and then had money left over for the 4th high school.

Also; HB refusal to increase the size of the program is criminal when all other schools are crushed.

There is nowhere in Arlington that APS could buy a building and renovate it for less money than it cost to build the building at Wilson, just as it was impractical to rent or do any of the other things that have been discussed. The best option, cost- and capacity-wise, was for H-B to stay at Vacation Lane and a new middle school be built in Rosslyn, but there was a ton of pushback to having that many students/buses in Rosslyn and having a middle school with no fields.

Arlington is obsessed with staying under the debt limit and had numerous capital projects underway, not just several schools but also things like the new aquatic center. They were looking for any option that would give them the most seats for the least money. I don't know why people are still beating this dead, rotting, horse corpse but for the love of God let it go.

Finally, have you been in that building? Inside, the walls, floors, and ceilings are all unfinished concrete. It may look fancy in the architectural drawings, with its levels and terraces, but inside it is a regular old high school. With a ton of stairs and long corridors. Lots of rooms are underground. And it is freaking loud, because it is all hard surfaces.

BS. A standard office tower structure would have been far cheaper than the award winning LEED design they pushed. They should have saved money so they would have reserves for the 4th high school. Pouring all that unfinished concrete is far more expensive then framing out interior walls and drywall.

??? You can't build a multistory building out of drywall. There have to be concrete walls somewhere. And construction costs for buildings over 4 stories are much higher -- it doesn't cost 1.5 times as much to build a 6-story building than a 4-story building, it costs 2x a much.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed. HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school.

The fraud part is that it has shifted from being a program with a strong personality (right for some kids, not others, somewhat self selected) into being the golden ticket to escape the crowding. I didn't mine HB when the other kids weren't getting short shrift.

PP is also ignoring that HB was resource hoarding: the only option they recognize is retaining of the largest plots of land in APS portfolio OR a marquee $100M building.

They should have bought an existing office building and repurposed it for HB, and then had money left over for the 4th high school.

Also; HB refusal to increase the size of the program is criminal when all other schools are crushed.

There is nowhere in Arlington that APS could buy a building and renovate it for less money than it cost to build the building at Wilson, just as it was impractical to rent or do any of the other things that have been discussed. The best option, cost- and capacity-wise, was for H-B to stay at Vacation Lane and a new middle school be built in Rosslyn, but there was a ton of pushback to having that many students/buses in Rosslyn and having a middle school with no fields.

Arlington is obsessed with staying under the debt limit and had numerous capital projects underway, not just several schools but also things like the new aquatic center. They were looking for any option that would give them the most seats for the least money. I don't know why people are still beating this dead, rotting, horse corpse but for the love of God let it go.

Finally, have you been in that building? Inside, the walls, floors, and ceilings are all unfinished concrete. It may look fancy in the architectural drawings, with its levels and terraces, but inside it is a regular old high school. With a ton of stairs and long corridors. Lots of rooms are underground. And it is freaking loud, because it is all hard surfaces.

BS. A standard office tower structure would have been far cheaper than the award winning LEED design they pushed. They should have saved money so they would have reserves for the 4th high school. Pouring all that unfinished concrete is far more expensive then framing out interior walls and drywall.

??? You can't build a multistory building out of drywall. There have to be concrete walls somewhere. And construction costs for buildings over 4 stories are much higher -- it doesn't cost 1.5 times as much to build a 6-story building than a 4-story building, it costs 2x a much.

I assumed she meant take an existing vacant office building and convert it to a school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2014/10/08/what-to-do-with-dying-suburban-office-buildings-turn-them-into-schools/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90575297/as-office-buildings-empty-out-heres-one-creative-use-for-all-that-space

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile HB Woodlawn has seen zero growth since moving to the new building. They still plan for just around 80 kids per MS grade and around 115 per HS grade. The lottery only accepted 75 6th graders and 26 9th graders (bringing the total 9th grade class next year to just 107 since they currently have 81 8th graders and I’m sure at least one or two will decide to move to another school). They really need to increase their enrollment to 100 per MS grade as promised when plans for them to move to the new building were being discussed. HS grades should each be at 125 at a minimum. They would still be a small program with these numbers.

HB is a perfect example of APS's fraud, waste and abuse of tax payer dollars.

Just stop it. All those kids would be back in the three comprehensive high schools if HB was still on Vacation Lane (where they wanted to stay) and that building was a neighborhood middle school, as originally proposed when they decided not to sell the land. And building it taller to hold more kids would have been cost-prohibitive. There are no fields.

If you have somewhere to put 900 middle and high schoolers, by all means, let us know where to build that school.

The fraud part is that it has shifted from being a program with a strong personality (right for some kids, not others, somewhat self selected) into being the golden ticket to escape the crowding. I didn't mine HB when the other kids weren't getting short shrift.

PP is also ignoring that HB was resource hoarding: the only option they recognize is retaining of the largest plots of land in APS portfolio OR a marquee $100M building.

They should have bought an existing office building and repurposed it for HB, and then had money left over for the 4th high school.

Also; HB refusal to increase the size of the program is criminal when all other schools are crushed.

There is nowhere in Arlington that APS could buy a building and renovate it for less money than it cost to build the building at Wilson, just as it was impractical to rent or do any of the other things that have been discussed. The best option, cost- and capacity-wise, was for H-B to stay at Vacation Lane and a new middle school be built in Rosslyn, but there was a ton of pushback to having that many students/buses in Rosslyn and having a middle school with no fields.

Arlington is obsessed with staying under the debt limit and had numerous capital projects underway, not just several schools but also things like the new aquatic center. They were looking for any option that would give them the most seats for the least money. I don't know why people are still beating this dead, rotting, horse corpse but for the love of God let it go.

Finally, have you been in that building? Inside, the walls, floors, and ceilings are all unfinished concrete. It may look fancy in the architectural drawings, with its levels and terraces, but inside it is a regular old high school. With a ton of stairs and long corridors. Lots of rooms are underground. And it is freaking loud, because it is all hard surfaces.

BS. A standard office tower structure would have been far cheaper than the award winning LEED design they pushed. They should have saved money so they would have reserves for the 4th high school. Pouring all that unfinished concrete is far more expensive then framing out interior walls and drywall.

??? You can't build a multistory building out of drywall. There have to be concrete walls somewhere. And construction costs for buildings over 4 stories are much higher -- it doesn't cost 1.5 times as much to build a 6-story building than a 4-story building, it costs 2x a much.

I assumed she meant take an existing vacant office building and convert it to a school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2014/10/08/what-to-do-with-dying-suburban-office-buildings-turn-them-into-schools/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90575297/as-office-buildings-empty-out-heres-one-creative-use-for-all-that-space

Fairfax got that building for almost nothing in a tax sale, and it is located at Seven Corners. Arlington mainly confines its larger buildings to the metro corridors, where the real estate is very valuable. The 10-story office building literally across the street from H-B is assessed for $150 million.

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Columbia Pike has lots of empty office buildings. Just sayin’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about Wakefield?

What about Wakefield?

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Anonymous wrote:Columbia Pike has lots of empty office buildings. Just sayin’

What? Where?

[Anonymous]

Aren't there regulations about the kind of features a school needs that make it difficult to find a space to build? Like, green space, etc? I thought I remember John vihstadt saying something about that being one of the challenges to alienating overcrowding in APS. Also I think there is an issue Virginia law making it difficult for the state to take land if an entity doesn't want it. Plus, Arlington is teeny and much of the land is taken up by a golf course, so space is just hard to find.


Does anybody know about issues like this?

I agree that the schools should be built in the community centers though. I think there was an effort to build one at Aurora Highlands but the funding went away.

I agree with a previous commenter that APS should be more transparent about the challenges to building schools. I'm sure it's somewhere buried on the website and in slide shows, but there is no reason not to make the information easier to access. Because if we knew more about the funding and regulatory hurdles, parents could have a direction for advocacy, instead of just being left to complain. Like, I would be okay with my elementary schooler not having a giant soccer field to play on.

[Anonymous]

So it looks like a proposal for the Career Center site will be presented at the May 6 School Board meeting. I'm interested to see what changes they have in store...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Columbia Pike has lots of empty office buildings. Just sayin’

So does Crystal City.

[Anonymous]

Arlington Public Schools will preview next steps for the Arlington Career Center site tonight (May 5) at 7pm on Teams:

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Any update on what was proposed?