Developer Benjamin Anderson says he’s been given until June 9 to come up with a plan to save Euclid School—three years after he first made an offer to buy it but got “ghosted” by the district and what may be one last shot to head off its plans to demolish it.
The St. Louis Public School district had announced in February that it would demolish Euclid and several other schools, with the school board then scheduled to vote on a demolition contract on May 26. But before that could happen, Anderson went public, detailing his concerted efforts to purchase the building and rehabilitate it in an interview last week with the Post-Dispatch. Alderwoman Shameem Clark Hubbard then fired off an email to the school, retracting her previous support for the school’s demolition.
“I also want to publicly state that I believe in the good-faith efforts, will, and substantial capacity that Mr. Anderson shared with me,” Clark Hubbard wrote in a letter to the district superintendent…