City Exchanges Land for Four New Schools: The City Council Unanimously Approved Plans to Swap Land With Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Order to Build Two New High Schools and Two New K-8 Centers
Posted on: Sunday, 18 December 2005, 12:00 CST
By Tim Henderson, The Miami Herald, The Miami Herald
Dec. 18--North Miami's City Council has approved plans to exchange land and work with Miami-Dade County Public Schools to build four new schools.
Plans for $180 million in new schools include a new North Miami Senior High across from the public library on Northeast Eighth Avenue; a smaller high school on Northeast 151st Street, east of Biscayne Boulevard; and two K-8 centers, near the high schools.
Schools in the area are a half-century old and rely on trailers to house an overflow of students.
A spring construction start is planned once all the paperwork is signed. The city still must sign a contract with developer Michael Swerdlow to build the two high schools, which would serve an estimated 5,220 students.
Swerdlow will be paid a flat $93 million fee to build the schools and demolish city buildings now on Northeast Eighth Avenue, including a community center, swimming pool, park, vacant firehouse and armory, along with the existing high school and North Miami Middle School, City Attorney Barry Kutun said.
The lost facilities would be restored in other city buildings like a planned new library and Olympic training facility across the street from the new high school. A new Cagni Park would go where the high school building now stands on Northeast 135th Street and will be designed and built by the school district for joint use with the city.
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