Grant close to halfway mark
At about 45 percent complete, the new Grant Center for the Expressive Arts looks like a school now. The start of windows and roofing on the building, as well as new street paving and curbs, make it easy to picture Grant students in their new school starting in early winter 2020.
Classroom windows installed in rooms off North Prospect.
Score! The gym, seen from North Prospect.
View from the corner of North 10 and Prospect. Classrooms are in the foreground. The theater/cafeteria space
is at the back left.
The future main entrance, off North 11th.
New street paving and framing for the sidewalk on North 11th.
View from the corner of North 11th and Prospect. The administration area is in the foreground, with the main entrance and library to the back right.
Spring update on Grant site, surrounding streets
- The type of work we’re starting - roofing and weatherproofing the building - requires more workers, so neighbors might see new people and less parking in the neighborhood.
- To make up some of the time we lost to inclement weather, we will work on some Saturdays through the spring.
- We’ll be doing right of way work on all four sides of the school (the alley, North 11th, North Prospect and North 10th).
- North 11th should be completed by mid-April; the others should be completed toward the end of May. There may be times when a street is closed, but we will make every effort to have at least one lane open.
- We’ll be doing intermittent utility work under North 11th and North 10th streets through April. There may be times when a street is closed, but we will make every effort to have at least one lane open. No interruptions to utilities are anticipated.
Tons of memories
It took about three weeks to bring down the old Grant Center for the Expressive Arts – all 4,000 tons of it. Trucks hauled off that material, including 3,397 tons of concrete and steel that were destined for recycling facilities.
About a year from now, Grant students will walk into their new building, ready to make a fresh set of memories.
Take a look at this time-lapse video showing the demolition.
They grow so fast: Live Construction web-cam
You can also click here to see what's happening right now on the live construction web-cam.
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