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GrowthCast #14: From Grocery Store to Ninth-Grade Center
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Here's another different approach: taking a former grocery store, leasing it, and turning it into a ninth-grade center that not only reduces crowding at a high school but also has educational benefits.
This isn't the first time WCPSS has taken advantage of opportunities for "adaptive reuse." In 1997, WCPSS purchased the former office and manufacturing facility for American Sterilizer Company and renovated it for Lufkin Road Middle School. In February 2006, the Wake County Board of Education purchased the former Bespak Industrial Building (approximately 92,000 square feet) and 15 acres for a new elementary school to open in 2008 in Cary.
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