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The school’s 2,445 students, who have been online for classes since the fire, will soon relocate to the former Sears building in downtown Santa Monica.

If there has been emblem of the market’s weakness, it is the long-vacant former Sears building near the Third Street Promenade.

Located across from the Santa Monica Place mall — and within sight of the historic neon sign welcoming visitors to the Santa Monica Pier — the old Sears building has been vacant for the better part of a decade.

New York developer Seritage Growth Properties, which took control of struggling Sears and Kmart stores in 2015, closed the Santa Monica store two years later.

The former Sears site spans more than 100,000 square feet and includes a sizable parking lot, making it the rare property that could accommodate Pali High’s large student body, which school leaders were intent on keeping together.