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Closed Schools in Pittsburgh[]
City schools sell old South Vo-Tech High[]
- By Eleanor Chute, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette February 28, 2008
The Pittsburgh Public Schools board has agreed to sell the former South Vo-Tech High School for $1.1 million to Gregory Development.
20-Schools to be sold[]
Pittsburgh School District approved a resolution authorizing the chief operations officer and the solicitor to "expeditiously move forward with the disposal" of 20 closed buildings, for which the ongoing maintenance costs exceed a total of $1 million.
If a building fails to sell "in their initial attempt," then the two are authorized to find a "responsible entity, within the immediate community of the school," which could receive the building at a nominal cost.
The 20 buildings are Beltzhoover School, Boggs School, Burgwin School, Chatham School, Columbus School, Connelley, East Hills, Gladstone Middle School, Knoxville, Lemington, Letsche School, Madison School, Mann School, Miller School, Morningside, Prospect, Rogers Middle School (which will be vacant in 2009), Vann School, Washington School and West Side School.