AUSTIN | Misc. Discussions - No Politics

[paul78701]

Originally Posted by Echostatic

Look no further than East Austin to find former educational land being used for dense housing. https://austin.towers.net/affordable-hou...ward-at-east-austin-school-district-site

Austin ISD recognized the value in their underutilized urban land. There's no reason TSD couldn't do the same.

Any way you slice it, the land TSD sits on is worth a lot. If I were one of the TSD powers that be, I would be thinking that it makes sense to have discussions around how to leverage that land value to improve facilities, services, and whatnot. (It's hard to believe that having such discussions haven't at least crossed someone's mind at TSD.)

Those discussions could involve creating a more urban campus integrated into a redevelopment of the current site or using the funds to purchase and develop a site elsewhere. Only TSD could really know or say what would be best for TSD and it's students.