New field house at Potomac
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Anonymous
| Potomac announced it will build a 250000 sqft field house for basketball, swimming, squash and volley ball. There will additional multi use courts and spaces and an Olympic size swimming pool. The site will be on campus |
Anonymous
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That's nice. The rush for collegiate style facilities should be the priority, and since everyone else has new gyms, Potomac should too.
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Anonymous
| Lovely. Who's going to pay for this? |
Anonymous
| All area privates feel pressure to keep up with their peer school in facilities. NCS, Sidwell, GDS -- all have revamped their athletic facilities. Landon's are fantastic too. STA just finished a major re-do of field space on campus (which NCS uses too). Potomac's were already pretty great, but they certainly have plenty of space on their 90-acre campus for a field house. |
Anonymous
It's already been paid for, no doubt. Money is no object at these places. |
Anonymous
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Beware Potomac.
Georgetown Prep did the same thing when they constructed a $39M field house and vastly underestimated the operational costs to keep the facility running. As a result, the Hanley Center at GP is rented out to outside groups 24-7 over the weekends and in the evenings on week days. |
Anonymous
| All of the schools rent out their facilities. What is the problem with that? |
Anonymous
Could be the scale of the effort at Prep versus a school where it's occasional renting of facilities. Prep did overdo this expansion and probably underestimated the operating costs. For other schools the revenue from renting facilities might be gravy. For Prep, its a necessity. |
Anonymous
| So cheesy how we always have to pay to attend events, such as track meets, at Prep. And also pay for parking. I don't know of any other local private that does that. |
Anonymous
When you have a revenue problem, that's how you fix it ... with fees. |
Anonymous
It means that the school's neighbors never, ever get a quiet weekend. Traffic 7 days a week. Most public schools are closed up on the weekends. |
Anonymous
| Sweet! My kid starts there next Fall |
Anonymous
Every DC and Montgomery high school that I can think of hosts a number of activities all weekend long, sports, clubs, robotics, theater, music, neighborhood events, whatever. I don't know what bubble you are living in. |
Anonymous
Potomac has very restrictive agreements with the surrounding neighborhood about how many vehicles are allowed to drive down the street to the school, monitored on a weekly basis. I doubt Potomac will be opening this facility up to outside groups. The new(ish) headmaster at Potomac seems sports obsessed. I guess that's a way to differentiate yourself in the market - is it really what the school community wants? |
Anonymous
Is this a way to position the school differently from Basis Mclean? |