Environmental remediation work is underway on fire-damaged school By Jeramey Jannene - Apr 9th, 2021 05:32 pm //end headline wrapper ?>William McKinley School as seen from the south. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
The windows are boarded up on the former William McKinley School, 2001 W. Vliet St., and that’s a good thing.
The condition of the former school has been described as the worst ever seen and the quintessential definition of blight by a series of city officials involved in moving a $12.6 million redevelopment of the property forward.
But why save it? For one, it would be more expensive for the city to demolish it.