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A plan to sell off three of the Bristol Township School District’s closed elementary schools is moving forward.
Postings have gone up to announce that a hearing before a Bucks County judge on the planned sale of the John Fitch Elementary School on Greenbrook Drive, Abraham Lincoln Elementary School on Plumtree Drive, and George Washington Elementary School on Crabtree Drive to McGrath Homes for $1.2 million has been set. The hearing, according to a public notice posted outside the Fitch property, will take place February 7 starting at 9:30 a.m. inside courtroom 420 at the Justice Center in Doylestown
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The school district and McGrath entered into an agreement of sale in July 2018 for the properties. The news of the plan was broken by LevittownNow.com in June 2018.
The $1.2 million deal contains about 45 acres of property in the Levittown section of Bristol Township.
The school district has kept the buildings up and will leave demolition and toxic materials abatement to McGrath Homes.
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Last summer, members of the school board announced that McGrath Homes was eying plans to construct 55-plus development – providing a mix of flats and apartments – on three properties.
District officials also said at the time that the softball fields at the Fitch school will be preserved.
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Late last summer, the school board awarded a nearly $600,000 contract to Premium Excavating and Demolition of Falls Township to tear down the closed Lafayette and Maple Shade elementary schools after buyers could not be found for the two sites. The Lafayette site is 20.9 acres that borders county park property off Fayette Drive and Maple Shade is on a V-shaped 5.7-acre lot off Newport Road in Croydon.
Previous offers that have come forward for the school sites have been from a developer looking to building senior housing, a nonprofit aiming to open low-incoming housing, a company with plans for age-restricted housing or facilities for people with traumatic brain injuries and other disabilities, and the township, which later pulled its offer.
The Bristol Township School District shuttered six older elementary schools as they consolidated to three new, larger buildings.
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Work is expected to be completed in spring to cover the former Clara Barton Elementary School into the district administration, transportation, and maintenance hub.
