Posts Tagged ‘Schools’
Ground Breaking Ceremony at St. Mary’s High School
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
“Groundbreaking at St. Mary’s High School”
WHERE: 816 Black Oak Drive, Medford, OR 97504 tel. 541.773.7877
WHEN: Tuesday September 6, 2011, 2:30pm
It was not just another day of school at St. Marys, it was the first day of construction for the new St. Mary’s High School Fine Arts and Athletic Center and Chapel.
Tuesday at 2:30pm, Batzer Construction and St. Mary’s marked the beginning of this important project for the school with a ceremony and the first shovel full of dirt. This is the first new construction at the school in more than a decade.
Fundraising has been ongong for several years for the project. Local architect Brian Westerhout of Ron Grime’s Architecture and Batzer Construction started working with St. Mary’s on budgeting and design for the facilities in 2006. St. Mary’s enrollment has increased from 320 students in 2005 to more than 450 in Fall 2011 — a 40 percent increase. Additional students have led to classrooms expanded beyond capacity, overcrowded athletic facilities with limited practice times, and inadequate room for the fine arts program which includes visual and performing arts, as well as an award-winning choir program.
Improvements to the St. Mary’s campus will include:
* Large gymnasium with separate lockers
* Fitness center for weight training and aerobics
* Special purpose music and art classroom spaces
* Chapel with seating for 80, includes landscaping
* Outdoor amphitheater classroom space
Batzer Construction gave the ceremonial “golden” shovels to Frank Phillips of St. Mary and his team to turn the first spade full of dirt for the project. Batzer Construction will be building on campus throughout the school year and construction is expected to be complete in June 2012.
Project News- Jackson & Roosevelt Elementary
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Jackson & Roosevelt Elementary Schools in Medford are nearly complete. Project Manager, Brett Smith, has done a great job working the two different sites on the same construction schedule.
In a quick revisit of those projects, here’s some of the project news highlights:
- August 2008 Mail Tribune “School Board Approves the Bid“
- August 14 2008 Mail Tribune Video of Demolition
- August 14, 2008 KTVL ” Parents, Students Say So Long to Historic School”
- December 3 2008 Mail Tribune “Rites of Renewal: Ceremony Launches ReConstruction of Jackson Elementary”
- December 2, 2009 Mail Tribune “Renovated Schools Open Doors Next Month”
- December 18, 2009 Mail Tribune “Teachers, students move home”
- January 7, 2010 KTVL “First Day of School for Two Medford Elementary“
- January 7, 2010 KDRV “2 Medford Elementary Schools Open Door Following Renovation“
- January 8, 2010 Mail Tribune “ Schools Get High Marks“