Historical June–July 2002 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Crossroads School has broken ground for a major expansion of their campus at 500 DeBaliviere, on the eastern edge of the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the $ 2.5 million project was held on May 17. Construction is scheduled to be complete by January 2003.
The expansion will include the construction of an athletic facility and a new school cafeteria.
As part of the project, Crossroads will also reconfigure its current building to add two classrooms.
The new construction will add 18,000 square feet to the current 30,000 square foot structure.
The expansion will allow Crossroads to increase its student body from about 190 students to approximately 250 students. Crossroads, an independent college preparatory’ school for students grade 7 through 12, has been located on DeBaliviere since 1980. “This expansion will allow us to better serve our student body and the community while staying at our present location, which is very important to us” said Crossroads Head of School and Skinker-DeBaliviere resident Billy Handmaker. Handmaker emphasizes that the expansion will serve not just the school, but the neighborhood as well. Crossroads has always made its facilities available to community organizations when they are not in use for school functions.
The expansion will allow the school to continue that tradition. “With the expansion completed, we would be able to host as many as three outside events at one time” Handmaker said. “For example, we could have a neighborhood basketball league playing in the athletic facility, a community meeting occurring in the cafeteria, and an outside theatre group presenting a play in the black box theater.”
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Rendering of Crossroads School athletic expansion. Designer not separately credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June–July 2002.
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