About the new construction schedule

Today’s Trib told part of story of the District’s accelerated construction schedule.

“Don O’Connor, executive director of the Duluth Builder’s Exchange, said that gesture probably would be appreciated by the local construction industry.

‘When you double the amount of work in an area, it’s quite an impact on the construction industry, so certainly spreading it out is a good way to go,’ he said.”

Last fall Dr. Dixon pushed all the architects to get their work done early to make sure a new school board seated next January wouldn’t pull the plug on his folly. Now, with the prospect of court intervention this year the District is fairly flying. But no architect can turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse. Ordean is impossible and in fact a more careful check of its buildable space shows that rather than 26 acres (still far below the state’s guidelines) there are only 13 buildable acres.

By the way the School District’s graphic leaves the vital start information out which was part of the District’s schedule. You would never know from the Trib’s illustration that fully seven out of eleven schools construction plans have been pushed up to this spring.

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