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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 wrote:39th and windom not 49th

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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???