More than a year after shutting 15 college universities to handle a deficit spending and decreasing registration, San Antonio Independent Institution Area has a strategy to repurpose a few of those structures.
The area revealed Tuesday that it’s looking for propositions to rent and repurpose 5 uninhabited college residential or commercial properties to “offer neighborhood requirements.”
Available residential or commercial properties consist of:
- Maker– 906 Merida St.
- Douglass– 318 Martin Luther King Drive
- Gonzales– 518 E. Magnolia Ave.
- Lamar– 201 Parland Place
- Pickett– 1931 E. Houston St.
Three of those residential or commercial properties– Douglass, Gonzales and Lamar– were college universities shut via the SAISD’s “rightsizing” initiatives in 2014.
It’s uncertain why the area selected to begin repurposing initiatives with just those 3 structures. SAISD workers and board participants are not permitted to discuss the repurposing strategy throughout the “ask for proposition” procedure, area representative Laura Short informed the Record.
The various other 2 residential or commercial properties, Maker and Pickett, are previous college universities that shut a number of years back and have actually because offered short-lived functions.
Brewer Academy was a grade school up until it enclosed 2015. It later on worked as an unique education and learning charter college, and was home of the area’s different education and learning positioning facility throughout the 2024-25 academic year, which is currently situated at the Ramiro P. Estrada Facility.
The Pickett home, referred to as the Pickett Household Facility, quit running as an institution in 2017 when SAISD chose to run 2 area divisions out of the structure, and later on rented it to Yard City Church. The church has actually rented SAISD structures for a number of years and currently lacks the area’s Bowden Academy.
A minimum of 3 of the offered residential or commercial properties are greater than 100 years of ages, and Douglass saw its latest improvement jobs in 2006.
Interested events have up until Oct. 17 to send propositions explaining exactly how they would certainly repurpose the uninhabited structures. The key objective, an SAISD representative stated, is to “change these underutilized rooms” to offer both neighborhood and academic passions.
More especially, propositions need to remain in sync with the neighborhood responses SAISD accumulated previously this year, have feasible company strategies and profit the neighborhood straight.
Results from a repurposing rate of interest study reveal participants, mainly SAISD trainees and moms and dads, favor the shut structures be refurbished for arts shows, very early childhood years education and learning solutions and eco-friendly rooms.
Other choices consisted of psychological wellness solutions, cost effective real estate for educators and area personnel and various other neighborhood wellness solutions.
After examining propositions, the area will certainly welcome a list of candidates to meeting and/or existing for a choice board in between completion of October and very early November. The board is entrusted with taking referrals to the college board for last authorization.
