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The Value of the Land

When we build schools of the past we used to build schools that you would love to have lived across the street from because it was a really nice building. It reflected well in the neighborhood. Now you do not wat to live anywhere near a school, because it's a car sewer with a big park lot and a storm water ditch out front. We're like, how do we make this as utilitarian as possible? And we don't bother about texture. We surround it with parking lots. We make it just very functional and utilitarian. Because of that, it tends to function like a wall mark,. or like a target, or like a, you know, just a routine office park - which

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