Daily News | Lower Merion schools’ condemnation of storied Main Line estate for ball fields encounters growing resistance
. District spokesperson Amy Buckman said the new fields would also be a shorter bus ride away for Black Rock Middle School’s students than
“The Lower Merion Board of School Directors and administration strongly believe that every child in our district deserves the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities that will enhance their social emotional growth and connection to their school community,” Buckman said. “For many of our students, participation in athletics supports these goals.”moving through the township’s approval process and developing the land.
But opponents say the six-foot new trees can’t replace the heritage trees that dot Oakwell’s grounds. Stoneleigh was acquired in 1932 by the chemical-industry billionaires Haas family who donated to Natural Lands — one of Pennsylvania’s oldest and largest conservation nonprofits — in 2016 for preservation.
resistance, the school district looked elsewhere and purchased 7½ acres on Spring Mill Road for the fields, only to find out that land contained wetlands that would make it too expensive to develop.Bennett said he learned from a real estate broker in the summer of 2018 that the Lower Merion School District was interested in the property, so he reached out to neighboring
Villanova eventually reached an agreement of sale for $9.65 million with Bennett on Oct. 16, 2018, to buy Oakwell. According to Bennett, the university planned to use it as a retreat and keep most of it intact. A settlement was scheduled for Jan. 4, 2019.But weeks before that settlement,
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