Randy Wertheimer, president of Hunter Pasteur Homes, has recently been involved of the building of a new neighborhood in our district. These houses will be  located on Long Lake Road. 22 homes are scheduled to be built and moved into by Summer of 2018.

“Most of our buyers we expect to be young families of people between 30 and 50 years old who have kids who want to be in the Bloomfield Hills School District. Bloomfield Hills is the number one school district in Michigan,” said Wertheimer.

The Bloomfield Hills School District sold 18 acres of property on Long Lake road last spring, in order to accommodate for more housing, according to School Board President, Cynthia von Oeyen.

“After discussion with our greater community through our Master Property Planning process, we agreed that the time was right to sell the 18 acres of vacant land on Long Lake Road,” said Cynthia von Oeyen. “The district had held that property for many years as a possible site for a school. We were able to sell the property last Spring for $3.5 million which we have put into our Capital Needs Fund  to use for the future.”

Von Oeyen explains that the vacant land was sold due to the long term student enrollment projections. These projections showed that in the future, another school is not imperative.

As our district housing is almost ‘built-out’, long term student enrollment projections have shown us that we should not need that property for a future school,” Von Oeyen said. “We are certainly hoping that families with school aged children want to move into these new homes.”

According to School Board Treasurer, Mark Bank, our high school is not reaching full capacity anytime soon; there is not a current enrollment issue.

“I don’t think that we’re close to reaching the maximum capacity at this point. I think there’s a misconception in the community that the high school is reaching full capacity, but it is not near capacity to my knowledge at this point,” said Bank. “So I don’t think there’s an immediate problem brewing at the high school that would require any short term or immediate term attention.”