Apartments planned for old school

August 22, 2008
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Former Stetson SchoolThe former Paul C. Stetson School northeast of Fall Creek Parkway and College Avenue could soon find new life as a 47-unit senior apartment complex. The Mapleton Fall Creek Community Development Corp. and Stetson Senior Apartments LP have filed plans Stetson Senior Apartmentsto transform the 1924 building, which most recently served as offices and The Saint Christopher Center, an early childhood education program affiliated with the Christ Church Cathedral. Plans call for the old school's gymnasium to serve as a common area for new tenants. Classrooms would be transformed into 24 two-bedroom units and 12 one-bedroom units. The plans also call for a new 20,000-square-foot building (shown above) at the corner of Fall Creek Parkway and 30th Street that would contain additional senior apartments. The project designer is locally based Halstead Architects. A hearing is set for Aug. 28.
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  • IndyIndieAugust 22, 2008 1:02 PM
    I am glad this site is finally getting re-used, it is a pretty cool building. As for the addition it is sort of hard to tell from the small rendering, but I not sure about the exterior treatment. It doesn't seem very harmonious with the existing building. I am not saying the addition should be brick, but the addition and the original should not look so chaotic together.
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  • urban indyAugust 23, 2008 3:08 PM
    This is good news. I have been wondering what would happen with this building.
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  • socrates#1fanAugust 23, 2008 3:30 PM
    I'm glad to see some old Indianapolis schools re-used.
    I hate seeing all these historic schools in our fair city being demolished.
    It is nice to see some re-use here.
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  • KyleAugust 23, 2008 8:28 PM
    cool! There is an old school turned apartment building in Woodruff Place that I like a lot. This looks good.
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  • Halstead ArchitectsAugust 25, 2008 10:35 AM
    FOR THE RECORD: Halstead Architects is no longer involved with the design of this building's renovations or additions. While we have been involved in many design options for the building and are happy to see progress finally being made, however, Halstead Architects is not responsible for design choices currently being made.
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  • daveAugust 25, 2008 5:46 PM
    Would have been a great opportunity to include the existing but very dilapidated historic apartment units immediately north of this site on Fall Creek. (NW corner of 30th and Fall Creek). Their problem has always been parking, so including them in a senior development where parking requirements are a bit less would be an opportunity. More complicated, yes. But maybe worth consideration. I'm assuming both Low-Income and Historic Tax Credits are being used on this project.
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  • thundermuttAugust 25, 2008 8:46 PM
    I agree with Dave, unless those buildings north of 30th are so far gone as to be unsalvageable. They've been vacant for at least 5 years...maybe more...and I'd be amazed if they didn't have some serious structural defects by now.
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  • indyfanAugust 26, 2008 9:10 AM
    My bus drives past this building every day and I've been meaning to look up what's in store for it...Senior apartments could be a great opportunity, I just love the historic school re-developments...why does it seem there are hundreds of old IPS schools?? At least some of them are being redeveloped or used as private schools.
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  • thundermuttAugust 26, 2008 10:47 AM
    IPS once had twice as many students as today. Plus the optimum school size has increased, so half to 3/4 of the IPS grade schools that were open in the 1960s have become surplus since then. Some have shifted to other uses, some have been knocked down and replaced, some have been enlarged.

    An old school on Capitol (just a few blocks west and south of this site) plus one at 34th & Emerson are senior housing. School 80, a couple of miles north, is condo. Several downtown schools were redeveloped as offices.
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    Alex NewmanNovember 22, 2010 12:58 AM
    Wow. I went to school here from 1952 through 1960. Do they still have the huge coal bin to the north of the building. We used to think it was a coal mine. Pretty tough playing baseball on an asphalt surface.
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