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Former Sears building converted into school for students displaced by LA wildfires

Storied building previously held offices, failed sci-fi museum
City officials and a nimble development team helped convert a vacant Sears store in Santa Monica, California, into a new campus for displaced students. (Brecht Vanthof/C.W. Driver)
City officials and a nimble development team helped convert a vacant Sears store in Santa Monica, California, into a new campus for displaced students. (Brecht Vanthof/C.W. Driver)
CoStar News
April 30, 2025 | 9:00 P.M.

On a recent sunny spring morning along Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade, students filed into a building that has cycled through multiple identities over the decades: a bustling midcentury Sears, a stalled office redevelopment and a short-lived sci-fi museum.

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