[CPEO-BIF] Kalamazoo, Michigan school siting

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Arcadia still best site for new school, officials say

By Julie Mack
Kalamazoo Gazette (MI)
December 1, 2006

A drive to locate Kalamazoo Public Schools' new middle school in the 
city's Eastside neighborhood instead of Arcadia is undermined by the 
lack of a feasible site, school and city officials say.

"In a perfect world, the school board would have chosen the Eastside," 
Kalamazoo Mayor Hannah McKinney said. "But there's not any land to do it."

KPS officials say they don't intend to back away from a signed sales 
agreement with the Western Michigan University Foundation to purchase 40 
acres in the Arcadia neighborhood, on the city's far west side, for the 
$24 million school. They say the only other site big enough in the city 
is Schippers Crossing, a 227-acre brownfield that was a former city dump.

"There are some real serious issues with putting a school on a 
contaminated site," board Trustee Eric Breisach said. "Do you want your 
kids playing on a football field with contaminated soil?"

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1164990698301810.xml&coll=7

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