Fayetteville High School moving up, not out
The bumpy road of trying to decide whether Fayetteville High School would be renovated/rebuilt on Stone Street or moved to an entirely new location came to an end last night as the Fayetteville School District Board of Education voted unanimously to keep the school on its current site.
After the $50 million offer from the UA was retracted and a $60 million plug from the mysterious Campus Building Group was pulled, finding a third potential buyer must’ve proven too difficult.
BuildSmart must be elated. StudentsFirst…well…not so much.
“We have concluded unanimously that it is possible to build on this site a new 21st-century school that our community envisions,” said Assistant Superintendent Dick Johnson.
As a graduate of FHS, it’s nice to see my old high school growing up and not moving away. Nice job, school board. Nice job.
[Via NWAnews]
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By Fayettevillainy on September 26th, 2008
I don’t miss the cramped parking from my FHS days, and I know they’ve grown in the last decade. I had to park in a U of A transit lot one year, and down by the Youth Center another. It wasn’t until my senior year that the building was actually visible from my car.
They already need a parking deck on par with the monster the U of A built up the street. The university’s transportation and logistics are appalling, and I can’t imagine the high school doing any better with this location.
But hey, they can keep all the cool paintings by the art students, and the lack of cafeteria space is a continued lease on open campus. I would be sad if they had to end daily caravan up and down steep hills to Wes’s/Burger Plus. Keep those lunch hour clutches and cigarettes burning, kids!
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