Trustees at its March 31 workshop approved allowing Superintendent Thad Roher to negotiate and carry out the contract with Friendswood-based Sterling Builders.
The overview
The district will be selling the nearly 11.4 acre property, which is located at 505 Briarmeadow Ave., Friendswood, as surplus property, according to district agenda documents.
The cost that the land will be sold for was not relayed as of press time. However, documents from a sealed proposal in late January show the land has a market value of over $9.5 million.
The property has many ongoing costs, including utilities, maintenance, landscaping, pest control, and safety detection and monitoring, and is not currently being utilized by the district for student or staff use, district documents note.
How we got here
In 2020, FISD created a Citizens Advisory Committee, or CAC, which recommended a $127 million bond proposal that passed in November 2020, according to the district’s website.
Before recommending the bond proposal, the CAC evaluated the district’s future needs, which included the creation of the new Cline Elementary that opened in October 2023 and is now located at 1550 West Blvd., Friendswood.
The district kept the old building with a potential eye toward using it for instruction, Roher said at the September meeting.
The decision to put the former elementary school site for sale was approved at the board of trustees’ Sept. 9 meeting, as previously reported by Community Impact.
After the approval, the potential sale went through the following timeline:
- Jan. 29: District opened offers to sell land
- March 6: Option to offer a sale closed by the district
- March 31: Board approved a future contract with John Adams Hill, president of Sterling Builders
