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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: ship sailed, APS is spending almost $200 million on the CC, that will add very few new HS seats. This is where the money is going. It's done.

And, also, yes, if APS was ever going to really create a 4th comprehensive HS, it absolutely should have everything else the other schools have. All that stuff fit at CC, too, and that was the pre-COVID plan. But it was expensive, so they started over, and now they are spending almost the same amount of money and getting way less because of inflation and all the delays. It's so typical APS.[/quote]

yeah I never really got why they killed the earlier CC project. can you enlighten me? I do remember some griping from the neighborhood.[/quote]

The griping from the neighborhood was because they were adding 800-1000 seats there, leaving open the chance that those seats would be zoned seats (not an option school), yet not giving the school the same thing every other HS in Arlington had. So if your kid was getting pulled from W&L or Wakefield to attend crappy high you would have complained, too.

It got killed because the budget came in way high -- $240-$270 million for a $185 million budget. BUT, note that the $$$ plan had space for an eventual pool, a full field, an auditorium, two gyms, and basically everything a full HS in Arlington has PLUS meeting the needs of the CC. It also added a meaningful number of new seats AND was designed for future additions if you needed to add more. The new plan that just got approved is going to cost $200 million plus, hardly adds any seats, one gym, no real field, no auditorium, and could never be a full HS if you needed one.[/quote]

Is there a link to the earlier plans for a comprehensive HS in the CC location ? I can’t imagine how they would fit that all into that small space. [/quote]

Most of it is here:
https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/200807_ACCAT-SB-Concept-Design-Report-reduced.pdf

This doesn't show where they could place a pool (that was shown in a committee meeting). They also showed how if you knock down Community High and the MPSA building the site holds a full track and football field in a meeting (not shown in this document). Note that APS is now actually planning to take both those buildings down.[/quote]

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