Combining Schools And Shopping?

California is littered with struggling or vacant shopping malls. The statealso has a huge need for additional school classrooms. In the Los Angelessuburb of Pomona, school officials have married the two situations byconverting a portion of a moribund shopping mall into three elementaryschools and a small high school. You can read Morris Newman's explanation ofthe project, including how shoppers are helping pay for the schools, in astory now available on the California Planning & Development Report website.