Design Option D 2.1 - MHS Building Project

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[Member Jenny Graham]: So this is the option that would have us building a completely new building on Edgerly Field. So can you just give us a quick tour of this option?

[Matt Rice]: Sure. Building on Edgerley Field does put the building really at the highest portion of the overall site. And so the same way that you were talking about, well, if we build in the parking lot, the building becomes much more visible, much more prominent for everyone visiting the site. On Edgerley Field, it is the exact opposite. It is the most remote point of the site. It will be really interesting to sort of rise up to it, and you're going to see it off in the distance. It will be a school on a hill. It'll have sort of that position that could be aspirational as well in terms of approaching it. But there is a lot of great change to navigate between coming onto the site and moving all the way up to it. We've heard that from a variety of folks within both the larger community as well as our advisory teams that we've been speaking with about just understanding the implications of moving the building that far back and that far up in terms of how easy is it for the community to access the building.

just off of Winthrop Street.

[Member Jenny Graham]: Got it and I also see a separate little like blue square that's the pool right so in this option the pool is not like detached but right near the building like we just saw in the other option but it is completely detached and on a separate site.

[Matt Rice]: That's correct. And this would be one of those locations that you could at least think about maybe building a new pool building before the existing one is demolished. And this option in particular is the one that advanced of the six that does not require the use of modular classrooms.

[Member Jenny Graham]: Clearly even today, even before we get creative.

[Matt Rice]: Correct. Right. And it's just because of the fact that this is built wholly off of the existing footprint of the existing building where you would be impacting classrooms.

[Member Jenny Graham]: great and i'm as i look at this i'm also seeing that we have a parking garage under under surface so that a stadium of some kind or playing fields of some kind could be built on top of the property so lots of those same sort of pros and cons about cost and circulation and all the things that we've been talking about so far.

[Matt Rice]: And options as well right?

[Member Jenny Graham]: Yeah.

[Matt Rice]: So this could certainly be considered as at-grade parking in lieu of the structured parking below a field and maybe a field adjacent to it. We wouldn't be able to fit say a track and a football field on that particular area if we're have to use some of that for surface parking but you could still get a single multi-purpose field down there to replicate some of what would be lost at Edgerly because again that's one of the big challenges from a field standpoint with this option is that we're taking away sort of that really valuable field resource. It's in a challenging area.