‘Cool but weird.’ Macy’s store transformed into school

Students who once shopped at a downtown mall in Burlington, Vermont, are now attending high school in the former Macy’s department store, with gleaming white tile floors and escalators whisking them to and from classes.

The Downtown Burlington High School opened March 4, about six months after school administrators closed the existing school, just under 2 miles away, because toxic industrial chemicals known as PCBs were found in the building and soil during renovations. That left students stuck at home learning remotely for much of the school year during the coronavirus pandemic....
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RSK: Wow, weird but cool is right. This is one use for old big boxes and or portions of vacant malls. Macy`s should have kept a kiosk or smaller store in the building since you have 4,000 teens trapped for the day...