Anonymous
04/11/2016 08:16
Subject: New field house at Potomac
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All of the schools rent out their facilities. What is the problem with that?
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.
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?
Is this a way to position the school differently from Basis Mclean?
Anonymous
04/11/2016 07:52
Subject: New field house at Potomac
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All of the schools rent out their facilities. What is the problem with that?
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.
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
04/11/2016 07:30
Subject: New field house at Potomac
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All of the schools rent out their facilities. What is the problem with that?
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.
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
04/10/2016 22:36
Subject: New field house at Potomac
Sweet! My kid starts there next Fall
Anonymous
04/10/2016 18:58
Subject: New field house at Potomac
Anonymous wrote:All of the schools rent out their facilities. What is the problem with that?
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
04/10/2016 18:28
Subject: Re:New field house at Potomac
Anonymous wrote: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.
When you have a revenue problem, that's how you fix it ... with fees.
Anonymous
04/10/2016 17:13
Subject: Re:New field house at Potomac
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
04/10/2016 10:39
Subject: New field house at Potomac
Anonymous wrote:All of the schools rent out their facilities. What is the problem with that?
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
04/10/2016 10:07
Subject: New field house at Potomac
All of the schools rent out their facilities. What is the problem with that?
Anonymous
04/10/2016 08:27
Subject: Re:New field house at Potomac
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.
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
04/10/2016 08:17
Subject: Re:New field house at Potomac
Anonymous wrote:Lovely. Who's going to pay for this?
It's already been paid for, no doubt.
Money is no object at these places.
Anonymous
04/10/2016 08:15
Subject: Re:New field house at Potomac
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
04/10/2016 07:18
Subject: Re:New field house at Potomac
Lovely. Who's going to pay for this?
Anonymous
04/10/2016 06:52
Subject: New field house at Potomac
That's nice. The rush for collegiate style facilities should be the priority, and since everyone else has new gyms, Potomac should too.
Anonymous
04/10/2016 04:20
Subject: New field house at Potomac
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