Aging regional malls with land assemblages of 50 acres or more, obsolete buildings and dwindling customer bases look like good quarries for school sites.
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.
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