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Download full textGiljahn, Jack W.; Matheny, Thomas R. – 1981
This manual provides recommendations for school boards and communities concerning the leasing, selling, and marketing of school buildings. The reuse potential of each type of school building is investigated, and suggestions are made for successful conversions. Design considerations and the many aspects of acquiring and developing a school reuse…
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Building Obsolescence, Educational Facilities, Elementary Secondary Education
States, Deidre – American School and University, 1985
The Samuel F. B. Morse School, built in 1874 and closed in 1980, is a historic landmark in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Now the building serves as low-income housing for 70 elderly tenants and is praised as being an imaginative and creative use of an old school structure. (MLF)
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Building Conversion, Elementary Education, Older Adults
Sampson, Howard L. – School Business Affairs, 1984
Rental of surplus school district property, arranged by a property management company, reduced the deficit of the properties for the Madison Metropolitan School District, Wisconsin. (MLF)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Marketing
Hickman, Robert E. – School Business Affairs, 1984
With community cooperation, imagination, and marketing skills, school buildings can be converted to other community uses. Tables summarize recent sales in Delaware. (MLF)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Elementary Secondary Education, Offices (Facilities), Property Accounting
Peer reviewedWells, Weldon S.; Kyzar, Barney L. – CEFP Journal, 1981
The conversion of a deteriorating shopping center to a 2,000-student K-12 school unit in Dallas (Texas) met the spirit and letter of a federal court order. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Construction Management, Early Childhood Education, Educational Facilities Improvement
Fiala, Holly Harrison – School Administrator, 1983
Beginning on the front cover, this article recommends planning ahead and involving the community in surplus school use decisions. It suggests turning surplus schools into projects restoring historic buildings and benefitting neighborhoods. (JM)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Building Conversion, Community Involvement, Community Support
Stranix, Edward; Fleishman, Michael – Teacher, 1980
Listed are 12 energy activities, experiments, and projects which some eighth-grade students performed in their classroom and local community before they helped install a solar heating system on the roof of an old house during school time and on Saturdays. The building conversion project is described. (KC)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Construction (Process), Energy Conservation, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewedEriksen, Aase – CEFP Journal, 1979
The Central Park Project, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, illustrates the importance of participation in the design process and the impact of school sites on children as well as on the surrounding neighborhood. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Building Conversion, Community Centers, Community Involvement, Design Requirements
Bussard, Ellen – 1981
At the same time that schools are closing in many communities because of declining enrollments, the arts are expanding at the community level. The problem of surplus school space can be the solution to the needs of many artists and arts groups. Mutual to the arts groups and the communities are the benefits of flexible arrangements and the presence…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Artists, Arts Centers, Building Conversion
