- To start this Spring through Fall 2012
- 18 million dollar project
- Will use some CPD land perpendicular to the existing school.
- Will double the size of the school : 9 classrooms, a science lab, kitchen, dining facility, play lot, new parking lot, green roof, rain garden, additional new native plantings and trees.
- 450 students currently enrolled, current capacity is 360. The addition will provide capacity for 600 students.
Happy for the kids and also my property value.
ReplyDeleteMake sure to use city based contractors and city based manufacturers for building materials, etc. Support businesses and contractors who have companies who hire workers who live in the city. Put money back into the city, not the suburbs. New Alderman- check and make sure city businesses are given a fair chance at bidding for contracts.
ReplyDeleteConveniently this news comes out the day after the election...People in Edgebrook voted BIG TIME against Gavin because they thought Doherty never did anything for them...well, this might have changed that a bit.
ReplyDeleteThe alderman has very little say over CPS additions, and if Doherty did, what took him so long? The school has needed an addition for the last 15 years.
ReplyDeleteThis was announced several months ago. The LSC at the school indicated that Doherty had little to do with it. More recently at the Onaham school, the LSC announced an addition of its own, and Gavin didn't even know about it. Our administrators and parents are 100 percent responsible for any improvements to our schools, not our outgoing alderman.
ReplyDeleteAgree with using Chicago businesses and contractors who hore Chicagoans to do work on the new additions. Chicago firms and Chicago workers will be more invested in the project and making sure quality work is done.
ReplyDeleteI hope the school parents are being included in the plans and their input taken seriously.
ReplyDeleteGarvy School addition looking good, though I did notice the trucks pulling in and out of there had suburban addresses. I too, thought, why aren't city owned businesses getting these contracts?
ReplyDeleteThe outgoing alderman had nothing to do with the addition.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that the incoming alderman will attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the completion of the addition, appear prominently in the photo opportunities and claim partial responsibility of the addition. Such is politics.
ReplyDeleteSo when are the promised United Airlines "techonology centers" going to be implemented at our neighborhood schools?
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