Basswood is only property Keller ISD plans to sell, interim superintendent says
Keller interim superintendent Cory Wilson said the district has no immediate intention of selling its Fort Worth properties to commercial developers, with the exception of land it bought in 2024 to keep an extended-stay motel from going up across from Basswood Elementary.
“We do intend to market the property for sale and recapture the funding used to purchase the property,” Wilson said, speaking during the Feb. 27 school board meeting. “It is our intention to only seek buyers who intend to develop the property in a manner that is sensitive to the existence of Basswood Elementary. It would be irresponsible of the district not to try and return as much capital to our reserves as possible. A zoning change makes that much more difficult.”
The city of Fort Worth plans to rezone 23 properties owned by the district so that they could only be used for community facilities.
Wilson left open the possibility of selling other properties down the road should the need arise. “In the years to come, if we believe it makes sense for the district to list some of these properties for sale, and if it’s in the district’s and community’s best interests, we will certainly do that. However, we do believe what is best for our community is that they remain zoned for single family and nothing else.”
One of the properties the Fort Worth City Council is considering for rezoning is currently zoned for agriculture. One is zoned for intensive commercial. The remainder include a mixture of light industrial and single-family, two-family and multifamily residential zoning.
“Most of those, particularly those adjacent to our campuses, are currently zoned single family,” Allison added. “Changing those zoning designations does not seem to make the best sense.”