Old Grade School Offers Loft Condos in the Suburbs

Old Grade School Offers Loft Condos in the Suburbs

Pittsburgh Post Gazette - February 2, 2006
By Jonathan Barnes

You can't go back to the old elementary school in Bellevue, but you can buy a piece of it.

Grant Elementary School, a century-old building constructed in the neoclassic design, has stood on Jefferson Avenue since 1903.

Pupils filled its classrooms for 79 years before the school closed in 1982. It was then a community center before Northgate School District, which owned the building, sold it in 2004 to developers for $175,000.

Now, Grant School Associates is developing the old building into loft condominiums, called the Grant School Lofts. They will range in price from $165,000 to $370,000.

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