Lincoln Public Schools seeks property trade to secure future Northwest elementary site; first reading advances

Lincoln Public Schools staff presented a first reading on June 24 for a multi-parcel property exchange that would trade two district-owned parcels for a different elementary school site in Northwest Lincoln and return about $1.6–$1.7 million to the district, staff said.

Long-serving facilities leader Scott Wieskamp described the multi-year effort as the product of more than a year of negotiations and strategic land management. He said the district is proposing to trade two parcels it owns — a roughly 32-acre strip west of Northwest High School (including a farmstead the district will temporarily retain for grounds staging) and a Grama site in northwest Lincoln near 17th and Folkways that the district acquired more than 30 years ago — for a parcel located west of Northwest 56 that staff say will be better situated within future residential growth for an…