Published: March 26, 2008 10:24 am         

New school for Concord will be first since 1973

DUNLAP, Ind. — Concord school officials broke ground Tuesday on the district’s first new building since 1973. The site is at the intersection of C.R.s 11 and 24.

Work is to get under way this spring on the $37.5 million seventh- and eighth-grade building.

The current junior high school will be turned into a fifth- and sixth-grade building once the new structure is completed. The new school is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in 2010.

Some of the features of the new building include wider hallways, high ceilings except where mechanical mezzanines are located, an art patio, three different colors of brick, a green metal roofing material used for overhand details and terrazzo flooring in heavy use and music areas and carpet tiles in the classroom wings.