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April 10, 2008 · Derek

Neighbors To Help Sell Rogers Elementary

While not as visible as the Elks or the Winthrop, Rogers Elementary is another one of those properties that continues to come up… again and again. Kathleen Merryman has something on the old school in today’s TNT. The latest word is that the neighbors who have fought so hard to keep it from becoming a social service center and church are now looking to help find a new suitor. Good luck to you all.

Anybody want a beautiful historic elementary school with a view?

Link to The News Tribune

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7 comments

  • drizell April 10, 2008

    There is a public notice up on the City’s website to convert the property to a church. It just went up a few days ago. Perhaps the church is reconsidering selling the property?

    Anybody else think that the neighbors will oppose just about any use other than a school? Perhaps it could be converted into a mental health care center for the residents of that neighborhood.

  • drizell April 10, 2008

    Oops, my bad. It’s actually a SEPA Threshold Determination to allow conversion to Destiny City Church. It’s on the Department of Ecology website in the SEPA Register.

  • Erik B. April 10, 2008

    I hope the neighbors are able to have the former school used as something beneficial.

    Neighborhoods need to guard against government closing their firestations, schools, and post offices and moving them to remote suburban location leaving the neighborhoods vacant.

  • Andrew April 10, 2008

    Our own Kennedy school of sorts! McMinnimans the door is open!

  • Phil April 10, 2008

    Unless an angel shows up on the Rogers School doorstep (along the lines of a private school, historic condo developer or McMenamins) McKinley Hill is about to learn a huge & hard lesson on the importance of zoning & land use.

  • Christine April 11, 2008

    There is no parking up there for a McMinnimans-type place. Not to mention I don’t think the neighborhood would like that either. There has to be a good use for it, though I don’t know it. I’ve been by it many times, the view is great and the building is interesting, though it is quite off the beaten path.

    I think a lot of folks would have trouble finding it.

  • Jake April 11, 2008

    There is no parking up there for a McMinnimans-type place.

    There is a ton of room for parking.. the football/soccer field, the kickball field, playground… ahh the memories. It is a shame the best elementary school EVER in Tacoma is causing so much debate.