According to Doug.... Plans to develop PS #4 and adding a new building , non-attached at the back of the school to create a 133 unit development for Apartments for 55 and up is SUPPOSED to be in place. With all due respect, I'm not holding my breath for that to become reality. I personally think if it were a viable plan to make that building into Apartments for whatever use, it would long ago have taken place. A destination spot makes much more sense .. Mixed use , a variety of small businesses, including a music venue in the Auditorium area. I look at it this way: YES the building is in horrid condition as it stands right now.. but the building itself, Thick brick walls and Concrete , in construction make the skeleton of the building still... nearly a century later VERY savable. If it had been maintained, it would still have to have costly and extensive remedial work to bring it to modern code.. But one could NOT demolish it and replace it with something of similar construction (the 20 inch thick brick walls and concrete) and accomplish that from a NEW BUILD standpoint for less money than it would take to renovate that building. I remain hopeful, though i am physically no longer able to do the maintenance work I once did gladly there, that it will somehow , some way be spared. I like Mr Milne, personally... but I do wish he and the proposed developers would think outside the box of residential.. It just simply IS NOT a fit in that location.
