“Preliminary research supports that the site has good potential to achieve community benefit while generating needed capital revenue to address Board commitments,” reads a recent VSB staff report.
In September 2020, a new $19.6-million seismic replacement school building opened at the north end of the school block at East 47th Avenue, allowing the 1912-built school structure to be demolished to make way for new gravel play field and a surface parking lot.
It is suggested that turning the southernmost parcel into a subdivision could generate mixed-use commercial and residential development on the site, similar to the newer low-rise, mixed-use forms at the southwest and southeast corners of the prominent intersection.