INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Public Schools board approved the sale of the far eastside John Marshall school building for $350,000. The property sits on roughly 16 acres and has been empty since 2018. The sale is part of a plan to dispose of the abandoned site in three separate parcels.
Ayesha Investments, LLC offered $350,000 for a part of the building. The company’s plan for the building is unclear, but the sale is contingent on whether the district can successfully petition the Dept. of Metropolitan Development to rezone the property from school use to special commercial use.
The plan is the latest in an attempt to decide a future for the former school property since it closed as a middle school at the end of the 2017-18 school year. The school opened in 1968 as a high school and closed in 1986 because of declining enrollment. It reopened in 1993, serving as a middle school, a high school, and once again as a middle school before permanently closing in 2018.