Mass School Building Authority August meeting

I popped across the street this morning for the Mass School Building Authority meeting; there's some interesting projects on the agenda:

Those accelerated repair projects at the top are sizable: Norfolk Aggie has multiple buildings, and, for those in Worcester wondering, Challenge and Reach is the Harlow Street building, half of which would be covered by the state: $6M project, $3.1M funded by the state. 

Both approved

Coming in for Preferred Schematic Design is Leicester, which is a PreK-8 building on the site of the current Leicester Middle. It's a $69.5M project for construction, total cost of $86.9M.

approved

Preferred Schematic Design: Nauset Regional for addition/renovation in Preferred Schematic Design; total estimated cost of $140M

approved

invitation to Project Scope and Budget:

Amesbury: Amesbury Elementary for a new building at $60.5M: approved

Braintree: South Middle for a new building at $86.5M, which notes their East project will open next week: approved

Bridgewater-Raynham Regional: Mitchell Elementary PreK-2 for a new building for $80M

"thanks for all the support since our roof collapse": approved

Gardner: Waterford Street Elementary for a new building for $89.5M

will replace two elementary schools on a site on Pearl Street (so will they change the name?): approved

Holyoke: Chestnut Street Middle and Peck Middle both new, $62.4M and $70.4M respectively: 

nice mock-ups on these; Holyoke of course doesn't have a lot of space, and they're making some thoughtful use of space; the mayor notes that two projects at the same time is unusual 

approved

Millbury: Shaw Elementary for a  new building of $60.9M: approved (after comment sent in by Senator Mike Moore that his children both went there)

West Springfield: Coburn Elementary for a new building for $69M: approved

Dennis-Yarmouth's project once again on hold due to another lawsuit; will cost the towns "as costs are just going up"

Waltham was hoping to be on this agenda, but still facing eminent domain challenges; are in fact before the court right now

There's some interesting charts presented here about projected changes in project costs over time that are going up on the website.