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Originally Posted by austlar1
Lots of construction projects, but, my goodness, the price tags for some of them are mind boggling. Bowie HS parking garage and other upgrades comes in at around $80,000,000!!?? Ann Richards School for $70,000,000!! Blazier Elementary at $50,000,000!. The list goes on. Talk about sticker shock, but I guess a million bucks just doesn't buy much any more.
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Bowie is getting a LOT for $88 million.
New water drainage/retention
New parking lot & pickup/dropoff roads
3-story parking garage w/ 8 tennis courts on roof
New 2-story sports complex w/ competition gym, practice gym, boys/girls gym lockerrooms, boys/girls field sports lockerrooms, boys/girls PE lockerrooms, weight room, mat room, meeting rooms, training room, coaches offices, and 5 classrooms
New football fields (might be turf, I haven't read for sure)
New 600-seat auditorium, old auditorium turned into a black box theater with space for set construction and dressing rooms, renovations for band/orchestra/choir spaces, and the old gym turned into a dance space w/ classrooms
Will probably include renovating the current athletics hallway/lockerrooms into something for fine arts/dance.