Ground was broken late last week for a new Hodgson Vocational Technical High School in Glasgow.
According to Delaware Public Media, construction will take about four years with a price tag of more than $200 million.
The new high school will be built alongside the existing building, which will be demolished once the new building is completed, with new athletic fields to be constructed. The existing building lacks typical high school features such as an auditorium and gym and comes with an inefficient classroom layout.
Rising material and other costs pushed the cost of the new high school past the $200 million mark.
Wilmington-based EDiS is the construction manager. The architect is Buck Simpers Architect + Associates. Wilmington.
Hodgson is part of the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District, which operates high schools in Wilmington, at Delcastle west of Wilmington and in the St. Georges-Middletown area.
Also in the works is a new vo-tech high school building in fast-growing Sussex County that could also come with a nearly $200 million price tag.
Vocational-technical high schools in Delaware are financed via property taxes and state aid and operate as separate county school districts.
The high school project also shows that a pipeline of state and locally financed projects will continue in the state and offset a future downturn in the construction industry.
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