ROTHENBURGER – Is community willing to invest in a new use for Stuart Wood School?

Posted on February 11, 2017 in Columns, Rothenburger // 1 Comment

110-year-old Stuart Wood School. (Armchair Mayor file photo)

STUART WOOD School is a good place for a museum. It would have been a good place for other things, too, but a museum is within the community’s reach when it comes to public spaces.

There are those who will object, and already have, to the cost of renovating the grand old building for a museum, just as they worried about what the cost would have been to renovate it and keep it as a school. They would prefer it be torn down because they believe that, of all the options, it would be the cheapest.

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1 Comment on ROTHENBURGER – Is community willing to invest in a new use for Stuart Wood School?

Pierre // February 11, 2017 at 6:35 AM // Reply

Those reserve funds…preparing well ahead for major community projects…but it takes vision and a “road map” to get there.
What were you saying about a disease called the “lack of vision?” And truly who does it apply to?
And it takes year of (financial) discipline to build the trust currently missing with City Hall.

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