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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you missed it, APS voted yesterday to approve the concept design of a new building for Arlington Tech and the Career Center at a cost of $156-172 million.[/quote]

Where would it be? Thanks for the news. [/quote]

It's going on the existing Career Center site and will run along S. Walter Reed Dr. They are adding some new seats here -- maybe 300? -- but mainly just fixing the screw-up they made when they created AT, because the building it is in with the CC programs did not have that many open seats and is not really designed for full time students. Plus those labs are all 50 years old. So they are updating all of that and giving Tech a real home. The cost is really high.

Open question what happens to the current building, which they've already spent $16 million on trying to solve for Tech. Likely MPSA moving in at a cost of many more millions.

They've floated adding middle school Arlington Tech seats to that site, but I personally think that's dumb. Tech is a good program, and I think it will grow once it has a real building. Better to plan for more HS capacity if we need it.[/quote]

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