by dinisco | Apr 4, 2021
Douglas Intermediate School was overcrowded. The best solution was to construct a new Elementary School on the site and modernize the existing school as a Middle School. This program driven solution places students in appropriate facilities with the least disruption...
by dinisco | Apr 4, 2021
The new Howe-Manning School was built to alleviate overcrowding, directly behind the old building that was then demolished and replaced by a small park. During the construction of the new facility, the students remained in the old school, a mere 15 feet away at one...
by dinisco | Apr 4, 2021
Studies on increasing enrollment and aging school facilities recommended converting the vacant Holten and Richmond buildings into a middle school to replace the existing school. The buildings offered 95,000 SF of interior space, but the configuration was inappropriate...
by dinisco | Apr 4, 2021
The original DeBerry Elementary School was located on a 5.5 acre site surrounded on two sides by a dense urban residential neighborhood. The site had no drop-off/pick-up area, and buses droped-off students on one street and picked them up in the parking lot in the...
by dinisco | Apr 4, 2021
The old Maria Hastings Elementary School was housed in a 1955 building with systems that were all past their useful life. The challenge for the new school was to create a small school feel with an emphasis on 21st Century Learning, PBL, STEM, and inclusion, despite...
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