GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – While teachers and students have enjoyed their summer off, Green Bay Public School facility crews have been busy working to get construction done prior to the start of classes.
One of the projects literally started on the ground floor.
Green Bay Public Schools Facilities Director Mike Stangel says they started work on the new Baird Elementary School back in 2018.
“The old Baird School was about 45,000-square feet,” he explains. “The new Baird School will be about 98,000-square feet.”
The school will serve 4K through 5th grade for 600 students.
“I’m sure the students are anxious to get into the new school,” says Stangel.
What’s left at this point, is just the finishing touches to a major undertaking.
“We’re in the process of receiving and installing furniture, installing technology, phone systems, computers,” he says.
Additional information on the new Baird Elementary School project can be found here.
With that in mind, crews haven’t been allowed the luxury to focus their time and energy solely on this project.
Plenty of other work in the second phase of a school referendum has kept crews busy all summer long.
Not surprisingly, the goal for most projects is to have the work completed and crews off-scene prior to the first day of classes.
“Two that have to be completed before the beginning of school will be classrooms and commons addition onto Danz Elementary School,” explains Stangel. “And a classroom onto Sullivan Elementary.”
The addition at Danz Elementary will increase capacity for 565 students.
Additionally, work will be wrapping-up on a new cafeteria space that has been ongoing since the spring.
“They were serving lunch in a temporary lunch line in a corridor and then the students had to eat in their classrooms for the remainder of the school year,” explains Stangel.
A front classroom addition to Sullivan Elementary will increase capacity for 700 students.
