Fire damaged Palisades High is looking for a temporary home in Old Santa Monica Sears

The old Sears building in Santa Monica is called a temporary home of the Palisades Charter High School, which was damaged in the Palisades Fire in early January. The headmaster stated the board meeting at a meeting on Tuesday.

School administrators briefly recognized the ongoing negotiations during a meeting of the school authority of the school authority, which emphasized that a deal had not yet been achieved.

“I will not say much about the temporary move because we have more to speak later,” said the school managing director and headmaster of the school, Pamela Magee. “But I would like to assure everyone we work on that we had a small delay, because sometimes, as with many things that deal with contracts, sometimes appear. We work it through. We think we will fix everything quickly. “

Administrators and board members hope that the students can return to the Palisades High Property as quickly as in autumn by using portable buildings, as well as the 70% of the campus that did not find a fire.

Officials have also discussed the opportunity to hold this year's conclusion in the still standing football stadium.

The Sears building was closed in 2017, and an office and retail ban of $ 50 million was ready in 2020, just like the Covid 19 pandemic for such activities initiated a difficult time. The complex has enough space for a high school with an enrollment of 3,000 students, an indication of the available place in the location.

Magee recently estimated the enrollment after the fire to around 2,700. The place will continue to be removed from the houses of people who lived in the palisades, but many of these residents are scattered against the fire in the LA area after the loss of their houses. The school also had a large part of the pupils who dealt from outside the visiting area.

Pali High's students started their spring semester online on January 23. These students had previously experienced the difficult time of long -distance teaching during pandemic, and many talked about the importance of returning to personal learning.

In contrast to the pandemic closure, the students still gather for sports and social and other activities outside the campus. On Tuesday they celebrated a victory of the girls water polo team.

The fire left complicated situations to clarify. As an example, the teachers want to know when it is certain to return to the intact return, but Rauch and Ash had an impact on the main structure in order to call up things-and a deep cleaning leads to the fact that objects are removed and thrown away.

Back campus buildings that were destroyed by fire were cleared away so that a flat floor, which an administrator was as safe, even if the campus itself is not nearly ready to reopen.

Pali High is an independent charter school, which is led by its own board of directors. The school always operated on the property of the Los Angeles Unified School District, who headed the school before it broke off from the district.

As an independent Charter, Palis leaders have both the chance and responsibility to manage the challenging recovery without the school district telling them what they should do. Both the pali and the school system work together to return the campus to good condition, says civil servants on both sides.

The details of the negotiations with the owners of the Sears property were a main topic of a Pali board meeting in the closed door, which took about 90 minutes. Real estate negotiations can be legally discussed in the closed session.

“We definitely plan more communication,” said Magee. “I know that people sometimes feel that there was no more information? But again we just try to ensure that I am littered and t is crossed. “

She added that information would soon give information about the new location and the return to personal learning.

“We develop all of these things as we go, but we work on it every day and try to do this as soon as possible,” said Magee.

According to Los Angeles Conservancy, the hoped -for temporary location is a remarkable renovated structure.

“When Sears, Roebuck and Company built his department store in Santa Monica in 1947, this did an interesting time for commercial development,” said a description of the Conservancy. “The shopping areas push themselves away from pedestrian-oriented shop fronts with designs that were tailored to walking and moved towards the automobile-oriented centers with large parking spaces and facades to catch the driver's eye.”

The Sears building, which was designed by the well -known local architect Rowland Crawford, “managed to record this transition period [and] The feeling of era, optimism and growth with a large scope and stylish architectural details, the Sears as a future -oriented company. “