NEWSFLASH: Historic Fight To Save Bryant School Building Likely Doomed

Again, the real slap in the face to the electorate. . .

Voters in Kansas City, Missouri, overwhelmingly recently approved a historic 474 million dollar school bond for Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) and nine partner charter schools in order to restore old building and improve infrastructure. 

Now . . . 

"Two weeks ago, the Kansas City Public Schools board voted to move ahead with the sale of the property to Sunflower Development, whose plan calls for demolishing the 111-year-old school and replacing it with 14 large single-family houses.

"This week on Wednesday, Bryant School Partners LLC — an entity Sunflower created for the project — applied for city approval to demolish the former KCPS school. But Bryant, which by all accounts remains a perfectly usable building, is not a goner just yet."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

The race is on to save Bryant School in Brookside from the wrecking ball | Hudnall

A demolition application is in. But so is one for historic preservation. How'd we get here? From David Hudnall:

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