When Lassiter meets Walton in a varsity basketball doubleheader Tuesday, the games will have more than East Cobb and regional rivalry implications.
The occasion will be the first for the homestanding Trojans in their new gym.
The $15.66 million building, located next to the football stadium, is finally ready to be unveiled.
The girls’ game tips off at 6 p.m., but a grand opening celebration will take place at 5:20 p.m. The varsity boys will play starting at 7:30 p.m.
The 3,000-seat Lassiter facility, which was built with Cobb Ed-SPLOST IV revenues, was originally estimated to cost $10.8 million.
But that was for specifications for seating for 2,500, and was revised to include more capacity and factor in annual construction inflation of six percent.
The building includes varsity locker rooms for the Lassiter girls and boys basketball teams and the Trojans volleyball team, as well as locker rooms for visiting teams and a practice facility for the Lassiter wrestling team.
The Lassiter gym is the second new gym to open for an East Cobb school in recent months.
The new Walton gym was broken in by the Raiders’ state championship volleyball team in the fall.
That’s part of a new $31.7 million project at Walton that includes main and auxiliary gymnasiums, a wrestling room, a weight room, locker rooms, a main theater, a black box theater and band, orchestra and choral suites.
On Jan. 24, Walton will play host to Lassiter in basketball in its new gym.
In January 2018, Pope christened a new $24 million gym-fine arts complex with a basketball doubleheader.
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