August 18, 2007
St. Pius School
With plenty of friends in the parish, I've heard more than a few things about the St. Pius School (located just off of Grand, on Utah) being considered for some type of development. While demolition seems off the table, the parish leaders are looking at all options for a thorough remodel of the building. Having attended school there, briefly, and as the building's in my neighborhood, I'm hoping for a deft renovation of the structure, as it stands.
Currently, the building houses small homes for a variety of social service agencies and ethnic concerns, with the old school rooms used as office space.
In fact, if we're hoping for a wish list recreation of that block, it'd be nice to see actual development on the back side of the property, along McKean. Save for two days a year of the parish picnic and a couple of summer flea market dates, the space is just too large for the amount of cars that routinely use it. And without the school using it as a defacto, concrete-enveloped play yard, the size and scope of that lot is tragic.
Anyway, idle musings for a Saturday.