The Spruce Street School, a private K-5 elementary in Seattle, plans to make a building in the First Hill neighborhood its "forever home" after buying the facility for $15.15 million.
The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog reports that the the school has applied for a construction permit to begin a $7 million renovation of the Madison at Summit building. However, it doesn’t plan to move to the new site until 2028.
The campus will consist of a 20,000-square-foot classroom building, the building’s roof, which is planned to be developed as an outdoor play area, and an underground parking lot.
The school was founded in 1982 as an outgrowth of Neighborhood Educational Workshop summer camps. Its original home was on Spruce Street in Seattle’s Central District but it relocated to Yale Ave N in 1984, then to 914 Virginia in 2005.
The $35,000-a-year school has about 110 K-5th graders.
