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I too have heard that the cost to renovate the Old Hardy School is prohibitive, and that the reason for the jaw-dropping fifty-year term of the proposed lease is primarily so that Lab can see some return on its investment after making these expensive repairs. That sounds reasonable, until you look at the equally jaw-dropping sums that DCPS is plowing into underutilized facilities elsewhere in the District simply to make political hay.

I also live near GDS and would love to see a DCPS school go in there -- it's right on the stretch of MacArthur that was almost re-zoned from Key to Hyde -- but it wouldn't likely be a high school. The GDS campus is currently a lower-middle school and would also require capital improvements before a high school would work well there. And I don't see DCPS investing in a fixer-upper in order to establish a new NW high school, particularly at a location so poorly-served by public transit and difficult to reach even by car.  Perhaps we can dream about a charter middle school...[/quote]

The state of the current building is a red herring. The true value here is the land, it's worth millions.

For decades the city has been giving away valuable former DCPS properties to the politically well-connected, this is no different.[/quote]

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