SOME GIVE and take combined with patience may result in a new development project taking root in the village of Bridgeport.

The former site of Bridgeport High and Kirkwood School on Bennett Street has been dormant for several years now after a new school campus was built in Wolfhurst.

The construction of the new school complex has proven a boon to the district. In the meantime, a nice piece of land has laid idle while holding promise for fertile use.

Now through dialogue between school district and village officials that potential may finally become reality.

Mayor John Callarik has been in talks with a Wheeling businessman who is hoping to construct residential housing on the land. That would mean keeping the venue zoned as residential.

School officials were originally hoping to have it rezoned to commercial in an attempt to attract some type of business venture to the site.

We credit both sides on dialoguing to the point an amicable, and hopefully, a worthwhile accord can been reached.

School officials have agreed to give the village time to finalize its deal with the housing developer. Should Bridgeport officials and the Wheeling businessman be unable to make the development project a reality by council’s February meeting, the school district will renew its push for a switch to commercial zoning.

We view that arrangement as fair as it gives the village time to hammer out the housing plans while giving the district control of its options should that plan fail.

Bridgeport School District Superintendent Ted Downing and the board of education along with Mayor Callarik and village council draw our praise for working together. Their shared cooperation has the makings of a win-win scenario for all involved.