The proposed sale of the shuttered Harding High School is off, and the 8-acre Central Avenue property may instead become the location of a new structure for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade students. Thomas Gaudett, Mayor Joe Ganim’s chief administrative officer, said, “There aren’t a whole lot of places in Bridgeport to build a new school, and the Harding site happens to be kind of in a centralized location,” referring to its placement where the East End, East Side and Mill Hill neighborhoods meet. “It happens to be in the city’s control already, so it’s a great opportunity.” On Tuesday, the city’s economic development director, Thomas Gill, and the hospital each confirmed the latter would no longer buy the former school for an expansion. The final decision was made over this past winter. Gill said the proposed sale price was $3 million and the city would have torn down the structure. The hospital would have remediated any contaminated soil. He said the Bridgeport City Council wanted the hospital to be on the hook for the demolition as well.
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