The old East Cobb Middle School campus will be giving way soon for a rebuild of Eastvalley Elementary School.
As noted earlier this week, the district is planning to demolish the Holt Road buildings, and on Thursday the Cobb Board of Education approved the project by a 7-0 vote.
Marc Smith, the district’s chief technology and operations officer, said the $348,000 project is expected to be finished by Dec. 20.
A bit tongue-in-cheek, board member David Chastain, who attended the school when it was known as East Cobb Junior High School, expressed an interest in getting bricks from the demolition.
“Yes sir, we can make that happen,” Smith told Chastain, who broke out into a grin.
Board member Tre’ Hutchins, who attended East Cobb Middle School in the late 1980s, made the same request.
East Cobb Middle School opened on Holt Road in 1963, and reopened in a new venue on Terrell Mill Road in 2018, next to the relocated campus of Brumby Elementary School.
An architect for the Eastvalley rebuild project was approved by the Cobb Board of Education in February 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic, at a cost of $1.6 million.
The project is expected to cost $31.6 million, but a timetable for construction hasn’t been announced.
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