This article was originally published in The Notebook. In August 2020, The Notebook became Chalkbeat Philadelphia.
by Aaron Moselle for NewsWorks
A Northwest Philadelphia developer is "seriously interested" in buying two properties that, until last summer, housed Germantown High School and Robert Fulton Elementary School.
Developer Ken Weinstein, who lives in Mount Airy, will be on hand May 22 when the School District of Philadelphia opens the shuttered schools to potential bidders.
Germantown High and Fulton are two of 20 buildings that the District — with the help of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) — put on the auction block this week amid another financial crisis.
"If we can find a way to make it work, we’re going to bid on it," Weinstein told NewsWorks.
The listing price for Germantown is $3.3 million, and for Fulton, it is $1.25 million, according to PIDC’s website.