City, RBUSD land swap is dead
The proposed property exchange between the Redondo Beach Unified School District and the City of Redondo Beach involving the South Bay Adult School has been taken off the table. After four months of negotiations, district officials this week decided to end talks regarding the adult school site, which was formerly Edison Elementary School. RBUSD Board of Education president Jane Diehl said the deal simply offered too little potential financial benefits to outweigh possible costs. “An effective use of money is what we need to see, and there could have been some downsides that made this project not bring as much to the school district as we had hoped,” Diehl said. “The advantages were not great enough when you weighed all the factors.” “It just didn’t meet the financial needs of the school district,” said RBUSD board member Todd Loewenstein. The South Bay Adult School, located near the corner of Inglewood Avenue and Manhattan Beach Boulevard, was only one component of a complicated proposed land swap. Two other properties were involved: the school district’s property at 200 N. Pacific Coast Highway, which currently houses the Redondo Beach Police Department detective bureau and the…
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