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Camas School District unveils plans for Leadbetter campus

District hopes to sell 9 acres for mixed-use development, use proceeds to build sports fields, other community amenities; eventually open new secondary school

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Jasen McEathron (far left), the Camas School District's director of business services, leads a group of community members and other stakeholders on a tour of the school district's Leadbetter campus on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. The campus, located off Northwest Leadbetter Drive and Northwest Lake Road, includes the former Underwriters Laboratories (UL) building (pictured), parking lots, wide swaths of parklike green space and the nearby Skyridge Middle School campus. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

The Camas School District has unveiled its vision for the former Underwriters Laboratories (UL) site near Skyridge Middle School, which it purchased for $11.5 million in 2019.

During a recent open house on the 58-acre site, community members stood near the 115,000-square-foot former UL building to view displays showing the school district’s three-phase plan for what it calls its “Leadbetter campus” — a nod to the site’s location off of Northwest Leadbetter Drive in Camas.

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