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Lassiter back stadium parking lot closing due to gym construction

October 5, 2018 7:16 AM by Wendy Parker

Starting on Sunday, the Lassiter back stadium parking lot will be closed because of the start of construction for a new primary gymnasium.

Students were notified Thursday of the closure, which will affect more than student parking.

That lot is where student dropoffs and pickups also have taken place.

School officials said in their notice Thursday that all car riders must now be dropped off and picked up in front of the school.

Carpooling vehicles should “expect heavy delays” and those students being dropped off in the morning should allow for extra time to be on time for the start of the school day at 8:20 a.m.

As for student drivers, here’s more information that’s been shared about that:

Only park with decal;
Do not park in neighborhoods or area businesses;
Plan on heavy traffic delays. Leave at least 30 minutes earlier in the morning;
Only seniors should be parking in the school lots. All juniors must park at Harrison Park with a decal;
Any cars without decals may be ticketed and/or towed.

Construction updates are being provided on the Lassiter homepage.

The new gym, whose funding was approved last month by the Cobb Board of Education, is expected to be completed by next November.

The $15.66 million facility will include a capacity for 3,000 and will meet other specifications for new gyms in Cobb, similar to those recently opened at Pope and underway at Walton.

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New Lassiter High School gym to cost nearly $5M more than initial estimate

September 14, 2018 3:26 PMSeptember 14, 2018 9:18 AM by Wendy Parker

The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday approved spending $15.66 million to build a new Lassiter High School gym, but it’s going to cost a good bit more than what was initially anticipated.

That’s because the original planning for the new gym was in 2012, including cost estimates, according to John Adams, deputy superintendent for the Cobb County School District.

He told school board members at a work session earlier Thursday afternoon that the original estimate was $10.8 million.

But since then, the Cobb school district has increased its seating specifications for new high school gyms, from 2,500 to 3,000. Annual construction inflation of six percent also was worked into the new figure.

The new gym criteria is being applied to the ongoing construction of a new gym and performing arts complex at Walton High School costing $31.7 million, as well as the new $24 million gym and theatre that opened at Pope High School in January.

The board later approved unanimously a bid to award the contract to R.K. Redding Construction Inc. of Bremen to build the new Lassiter gym, which will replace the original gym that opened with the school in 1980.

Adams said the cost could have exceeded $16 million, and “we think this is a good price for this gym.”

The project, which Adams said is expected to be completed by November 2019, is included in the Cobb Ed-SPLOST IV notebook.

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