| Memorial Boulevard School |
The $57
million plan calls for selling the existing City Hall building, creating a
neighborhood park at the O’Connell School site on Park Street and leaving the
existing Beals Senior-Community Center where it is.
George
Wallace, deputy public works director, said the city’s Building Committee
recently received the draft study and plans to hear soon from the consultants.
It has made no decisions and its members may or may not support the
recommendations.
The $70,000 space
needs study, which officials agreed to carry out last spring, is the product of
an in-depth examination by experts from Drummey Rosane Anderson, Inc. of South
Windsor who were asked to figure out how the city should best use its
buildings, including schools that will be empty starting next fall.
City
Councilor Henri Martin, who serves on the buildings panel, said the report is “sort
of a general heads-up” about what’s possible.
He said
officials are going to have to figure out how the proposals fit into the
overall downtown revitalization effort. There are many options, Martin said,
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