This morning, I wrote a post about Mayor Adrian Fenty's 11 school site redevelopment plan. Charter advocates charge that they didn't get proper first dibs on the buildings for their own use. Well here's my thing: There are just so many damn schools out there. In this one area—less than a square mile—there are seven. [...]

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In late December, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced that he would like to redevelop 11 former school sites. Today, we'll start to take a look at the location and history of these schools. For a little insight (minus any sentimentalizing, as you'll see), I've talked with Hayden Wetzel, archivist at the Sumner School Museum [...]

Since this is a housing and development blog, I would be remiss to not mention the biggest bit of development news that broke while I was gone last week. 
On Dec. 22, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced that he would like to redevelop 11 closed-school sites. Among them: Backus Middle School, Grimke Elementary School, Hine Junior High [...]