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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just as interesting a question is what is going to happen to the existing lower school campus.  There has been a lot of not-so-great packed-in condos and townhouse development along that part of MacArthur recently, and I suppose it's likely there'll be more.  However, why not another school to buy it?  What about River School expansion?  Or are DC public elementary schools in NW DC too good now to make that a viable move?  Maret expand onto two campuses?  DCPS buy it for a new school in the Palisades (yes!).  Further Lab School or Field School expansion?  Or St. Patricks?[/quote]

Obviously it would be most efficient for another school to take over a modern school building with playing field, playground, parking, etc.  But the question is whether the sale price that GDS will seek will be beyond the fundraising and debt capacity of mot schools that would be interested in it.  I fear that the more likely future use be more condos and McMansions of the type that border the site, even though that would involve the wasteful and costly demolition and removal of the existing facilities  The thought that DCPS would buy the site just isn't going to happen, when DC is still closing underutilized schools and in fact leases out a surplus public school to the Lab School, just down the street from GDS.  The one identified need for another DCPS facility in upper NW -- the somewhat controversial proposal to build a new middle school -- would require a larger site than GDS' Macarthur campus.[/quote]

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