The clearout of Sam Houston Math Science and Technology Center’s sports fields has begun, a reader notes this week. The school’s campus is squeezed in between the angled track of the Hardy Toll Rd. and north-south-running Irvington Blvd., just north of Tidwell Rd.; the existing 1950’s school building at the south end (which HISD says is the lost heir to one of the relocated and renamed Houston Academy schools founded downtown in the 1800s) will be knocked down to make room for new athletic fields, once the new building is up. The district says the first phase of the campus fliparound should be ready in time for the 2019-2020 school year; plans and renderings for the completed project show dedicated facilities for performing arts, autoshop, cosmetology, and more:Â
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Groundbreaking is officially set for the 24th; small quantities of other breaking will likely continue in the meanwhile:
Images: Swamplot inbox (photos), Stantec (renderings)
HISD is building some nice campuses/schools. A really nice school getting built and better looking looks like than this is Furr, but nothing against what’s being made for here since neighborhoods get together on designs.