at the mall. An abandoned Macy’s department store in Vermont has been converted into a school after district officials found toxic industrial chemicals in the old school and its grounds during renovations.While the Downtown Burlington High School students were learning from home, school officials scrambled to find a new safe space toaccommodate half of the nearly 1,000 students plus faculty.The empty department store, which closed in 2018, was transformed during a 10-week, $3.5million renovation.
Construction workers added partial walls to make classrooms, converted the home-goods department into a library, remodeled the warehouse into a gym and adapted fitting rooms to become bathrooms, according to the Associated Press.
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