Two major real estate projects in Bucks County – the
construction of a new $52.9 million middle school and the $47.9 million
upgrades to another – will reportedly be complete by July 2018.
Construction of the new Newtown Middle School on its
existing campus is well underway, as is the nearly $50 million renovations and
addition to the Holland Middle School. Both are part of the Council Rock School
District in Bucks County.
The school district still needs to borrow another $20
million to complete the projects, the Bucks County Courier Times said.
A school district official announced at a facilities
committee meeting both projects should be finished by July of next year, the Bucks County Courier Times reported,
which said the new Newtown school will be 65,000 square feet larger than the
current facility.
The addition at Holland Middle School in Northampton will
increase its size by 45,000 square feet to 185,000 square feet. Both schools
will then be able to accommodate Council Rock's middle school population (grades
seven and eight) and allow the district to close its third middle school,
Richboro, after next school year, school board members and administrators have
said.
Richboro Middle School is expected to close, the report
said, but a public hearing and a school board voe are among the steps still
required before its closure.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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