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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new GM needs to be bigger than 130K square feet. ACPS keeps saying that they'll keep the original building to placate the neighborhood but it needs to go - my guess is that they'll keep saying that right up until the wrecking ball takes it down though. It's literally crumbling according the ACPS' documents. [/quote]

It’s an attractive historic building at a similar scale to the neighborhood homes. I personally hope they keep it even if it means gutting the interior. They can add the additional square footage towards the rear. [/quote]

That isn't the plan. The new school will be built in far back part of the fields over that grove of trees, the underground spring, the baseball field, the tennis court area, soccer fields etc. The additions to the current GM will be removed and the original building will stay (or so they say). Wilson said recently said that the new GM will take up a lot more of the lot and the playing fields.

ACPS has said that any new schools must have a bus loop for safety reasons. That's one reason that they won't just add on to the current building. It's impossible to have a bus loop with the current building. They've also made it very clear that GM is a total rebuild. NOT a renovation or additions.

The city isn't particularly concerned with a new building matching the neighborhood or being in scale. Look at the new firehouse a block down from the school.  It's a LOT better than their first design but it doesn't fit with the neighborhood. And the community was on top of that.

It sounds like the school community is clueless about what is happening, what is coming and how ACPS/the City works. They may be in the dark because people who would normally lead the effort are close with Wilson, the School Board and ACPS establishment.

My bet would be on the original GM being leveled at the last minute. ACPS will "discover" that the building is in really bad shape (it is) or that it doesn't work to have it because of the bus loop or tell the community to chose between the building and having a turf playing field there.

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