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What kinds of land use decisions should Fargo pursue?
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ARTS SCHOOL
Jun 15, 2011 albedo
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Build an arts high school in the heart of the downtown, say atop the huge parking lot east of the post office at Roberts & 2nd Avenue. Students from city high schools interested in art would enroll, and in the process create room for more students in those schools. Students & teachers would take city mass-transit buses to/from the arts school, so we'd save the cost of new school buses & drivers. (The sublevel parking lot under the school would be public.) The arts school could use the Fargo Theatre across the alleyway to practice/present its plays. A vacant downtown storefront could be leased to teach business skills to students who want to sell their creations. Heat w/geothermal. Over-engineer building supports to hold additional floors that might be added in years to come. Attach a narrowish 4-story public solarium to the south side of the school, fronting 2nd Av N, and tie the solarium in to the back of the Black Bldg. w/another skyway segment. And be sure to reserve space on the north side of the school footprint for a pocket park connecting Roberts St to the alleyway.

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