Students Make Plans for Crummell Site

DCist mentioned this Washington Times article on local junior high students studying urban planning and focusing on the redevelopment of Ivy City's historic Alexander Crummell School (or click here, here, or here). The school is located across the street from the nightclub Dream (LINK PLAYS MUSIC). In the past, the owner of Dream had talked about redeveloping the school as a privately run community center. He had the support of some local ANC commissioners, but others objected loudly. Questions were also raised about Dream securing a lease of the school property for parking purposes (dream has a long history of parking issues), and about a fence that was erected (perhaps without a permit) on the site.