(Lake Park)– The Harris-Lake Park School Board Monday evening authorized talks to get underway with the city of Lake Park regarding a possible land swap. Superintendent Gary Richardson…
“We would propose that we would take that ground east of the little league fields and north of the middle school/high school where the ball field is, and it runs all the way out to the east to the other plots of land that are over there, so. They, in turn, would get land that’s just north of the current elementary building and north and west and then have the option of that elementary building area itself, if they wanted to. That’s the proposal.”
He says there are some advantages to the school gaining what is currently city-owned land near the ball fields…
“We can just expand to parking lot or more ball fields. We want to have the room where we’ll be moving our practice football field and track. That’s all on city ground so we’d like to be able to have ownership of that and maintain it our self, not that they wouldn’t do a good job, they would, but it just seems more prudent that we would have control over that.”
Richardson says the district would likely demolish the current elementary building in the 2025-2026 school year should the land swap go through and the city wouldn’t be interested in the structure.
