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Rosedale School Redevelopment Timeline

With a wave of a piece of paper, the old Rosedale School property survived the first attempt to sell it off. But what worked in 1981 may not work now. Legal covenants that shielded the 87 year-old school site from development as anything other than a school or single-family residences Read more

By Daniel Ray, 2 daysApril 28, 2026 ago

The people of the Rosedale neighborhood have something special, and the old Rosedale School is part of it. These stories detail the struggle to prevent overdevelopment at the site, and to find an alternative that better fits the neighborhood, its people, and Austin as a whole

Rosedale School Redevelopment Timeline