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Cincinnati is selling a small tract of land to Elder High School to “facilitate the expansion” of the Catholic school’s campus in West Price Hill.
The land in question is only .06 acres. Elder Principal and CEO Kurt Ruffing said it amounts to roughly 40 feet of Panther Court, a road that dead-ends into Elder’s parking lot.
The plan is to move Elder's parking lot gate about 30 feet, Ruffing said, adding back parking spaces lost to other renovations around campus.
The school is buying the land from the city for $750, according to a property sale agreement.
City council's budget committee voted unanimously in favor of the sale on Monday. The deal will go before full council on Wednesday.
“It’s all part of our master campus improvement plan,” Ruffing said.
Elder needs more parking because the school lost about 36 spaces when it built a new fitness center this past year.
The school is also planning to renovate the area around the grotto of the virgin Mary, Ruffing said. That will include knocking down a concrete wall, adding new landscaping and cutting about seven parking spaces.
“Right now, the grotto kind of looks like it sits in a parking lot,” Ruffing said. “We’re trying to make it more of a spiritual area.”
Ruffing said the grotto renovation will hopefully start this month and be completed in the spring.
“The parking itself is a project for next year,” he said.
Elder High School is buying a small tract of land from Cincinnati for expansion
Cincinnati City Council is selling a small tract of land to Elder High School \
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Cincinnati is selling a small tract of land to Elder High School to “facilitate the expansion” of the Catholic school’s campus in West Price Hill.
The land in question is only .06 acres. Elder Principal and CEO Kurt Ruffing said it amounts to roughly 40 feet of Panther Court, a road that dead-ends into Elder’s parking lot.
The plan is to move Elder's parking lot gate about 30 feet, Ruffing said, adding back parking spaces lost to other renovations around campus.
The school is buying the land from the city for $750, according to a property sale agreement.
City council's budget committee voted unanimously in favor of the sale on Monday. The deal will go before full council on Wednesday.
“It’s all part of our master campus improvement plan,” Ruffing said.
Elder needs more parking because the school lost about 36 spaces when it built a new fitness center this past year.
The school is also planning to renovate the area around the grotto of the virgin Mary, Ruffing said. That will include knocking down a concrete wall, adding new landscaping and cutting about seven parking spaces.
“Right now, the grotto kind of looks like it sits in a parking lot,” Ruffing said. “We’re trying to make it more of a spiritual area.”
Ruffing said the grotto renovation will hopefully start this month and be completed in the spring.
“The parking itself is a project for next year,” he said.
