A Lancaster County elementary school, which was shut down
in October when it was deemed structurally deficient, will be demolished and
rebuilt.
Manheim Central School District's school board last week
approved a $47 million construction plan that will build two new elementary
schools to accommodate a combined 1,500 students, according
to plans submitted to the board by EI Associates, an architectural firm in
Harrisburg.
With 1,000 students, the largest of the two new schools
will be Doe Run Elementary School, which was shuttered Oct. 17 after engineers
discovered cracks in the masonry and "more significant structural
concerns," Superintendent
Norman Hatten said in a statement.
Engineers determined "occupancy would not be safe in
a severe weather event or seismic event," he said.
Students were moved to a former middle school in the
district on Gramby and Hazel streets in Manheim. They've been attending class
there since Oct. 27 and have dubbed it Doe Run on Gramby.
That school is also slated to be rebuilt and will house
500 students.
Doe Run is expected to be finished first. Construction
will be finished in July 2017, and the building will open for the 2017-18
school year, according
to architectural plans.
Plans call for the Gramby building to be complete in
December 2018, with the school opening for the 2019-20 academic year.
To see more details, go here
or visit the school website at http://mcsd-dnn.mcbarons.manheimcentral.org/.
Source: Penn
Live
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