Work on Platte County R-3’s bond projects are moving along at pace, with the ground breaking for the district’s second middle school set for 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10 at the project site off Platte Purchase Road in Kansas City.
The 93,000 square-foot facility will be designed for 500-600 students with the possibility to expand. The building will feature classrooms supported with adjacent collaboration space for hands-on and exploratory learning. Other amenities will include a state-of-the art media center, a full-sized gymnasium and commons, a flexible auditorium, and access to outdoor learning as well as an adjacent middle school track and field.
The board of education has received monthly bond project updates from Newkirk Novak Construction Partners. In Platte City, the progress is hard to miss as the crane and steel frame has risen up behind the current high school building.
Newkirk Novak reported the classroom wing steel frame is up, and over the next month we will see the cafeteria and commons area erected. Precast panels for the gymnasium complex are in place, the elevator shaft is up and FEMA shelter walls will be poured out in the next few weeks. The baseball field fencing is going in ahead of sod and turf.
Phase one of the high school reconstruction project is on track to finish as planned in December 2022.
Bids for the new middle school were approved last month with the final bid package for the remaining scopes of work scheduled to be brought before the board for approval at the December meeting.
The overall project completion is targeted for May of 2023.