Bus traffic to Chamblee High School will be rerouted after the first of the year and demolition of parts of the old high school building should start by February, school district officials said at a public meeting.
“You’re going to see a lot of work going on,” Amy Sue Mann, director of preconstruction for the DeKalb County school system said.
More than 30 people attended the meeting at the school Nov. 29 to hear school officials discuss progress on the $69 million project to rebuild the school. Work on the main part of the high school building is to be completed by August 2013, officials said.
In addition to classrooms, the new high school will offer a wing that includes a theater, art rooms, a gym and a natatorium, school officials said.
Demolition of a portion of the old school building and some apartments purchased by the district should begin soon after the new year and as soon as the district obtains permits approving the work, school officials said.
A road to be used by school buses during construction should be complete and ready for use after the holiday break, said Keith Ware, project manager for Turner Construction Company. Buses will turn onto the road from Chamblee-Dunwoody Road and then leave the campus by the temporary road’s connection with Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, he said. Parents dropping off students will enter on Chamblee-Dunwoody and then leave on Chamblee-Dunwoody, he said.
Off-duty police officers will direct traffic on Chamblee-Dunwoody during construction, Mann said.
When the new school opens, school buses will bring students in by way of a road on the south side of the school and parents will use a separate entry on the north side, school officials said.
