Both properties are being purchased by the School Board to accommodate school expansion. A new house is being built across from the school on Seventh Avenue. Nearby, another house, jacked up on steel beams, recently was moved to the neighborhood. Both have gone through the city's permitting process. Pending St. Petersburg voter approval on March 27, the school system will lease about 3 acres of park land for the new school.
People are simply afraid of the unknown.
The future Steen chooses to emphasize what the school will become when it is rebuilt. No. 2 nationally to receive a grant to start a marine science magnet program in partnership with the University of South Florida, Steen said. In another partnership, USF and Campbell Park would like to collaborate on a model teaching program. Education professors at the college will take a turn in the classroom at Campbell Park, work with the elementary school teachers and show their own education students that they can apply academic theory to the real world. Teaching interns will have their own space at the elementary school.