Construction continues on site at the new Greenfield-Central High School auditorium project, where most framework for the building has been completed.
Tom Russo | Daily Reporter
GREENFIELD – Construction is moving right along at Greenfield-Central High School, where much of the framework for the school’s new auditorium on the north end of the building has been completed.
“I am happy to report that the auditorium project is progressing on schedule. It should be complete one year from now, July 2024,” superintendent Harold Olin said.
Olin said that over the next two months, the community will see the auditorium connected to the gym and pool areas with structural steel. Once that steel is put in place, all of the large equipment will be removed from the construction site.
“The fencing will stay in its current position for many more months, so we will not recapture much parking until next spring,” he said.
At the July 10 school board meeting, Olin shared that school officials met with construction teams twice in June to assure the work was moving along as it should.
“The last month has been another month of substantial work as the roof steel is in place over most of the auditorium, and the catwalks were hung,” he told the board Monday.
“Outside of the main auditorium box, extensive foundation work has been completed beside the existing building. The next month should see roof decking, structural steel inside the auditorium box, electrical and bleacher work in the pool seating addition, and the next phase of traditional masonry work and installing steel in the hallway/lobby areas. The new pool seating area should be substantially complete when school starts,” he said
With construction still ongoing for months to come, Olin said high school students should expect to follow the same parking and pedestrian patterns when school resumes Aug. 2 as they did at the end of last school year.
“We will have two entrance points: the main entrance on the east side and the bus entrance on the south side of the school,” Olin said. “We have made some adjustments to our main office to allow us to better supervise students and create an even safer entry point.”
Road construction taking place in front of the school on Broadway Street is expected to be complete by the first day of school, he said, but contingency plans will be put in place just in case.
