D15 Considers Plans For School In Shopping Center

PALATINE, IL — Palatine Township Elementary School District 15 school board members are seeking more time before they decide on whether to create a new school in a vacant portion of a shopping center in town, according to the Daily Herald. Last week, the school board voted in favor of taking another 90 days to mull over the proposal for its 21st school at the Park Place shopping center, which is located at Rand and Dundee roads.

Under the proposal, 80,000-square-feet of space, including space formerly occupied by a former Whole Foods, would be transformed into a 32-classroom school for kindergarten through sixth grade students, the Daily Herald reports. About 22 percent of the district's 12,000 students live in the northeast portion of the district but do not have a neighborhood school.

If the Park Place proposal does not work out, District 15 Superintendent Laurie Heinz says the district is eyeing a second option in a stand-alone commercial building east of Route 53 in Arlington Heights, according to the Daily Herald.

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