From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: TheClayton (Mo.) district plans to build a new Wydown Middle School, but critics say the planned facility is too big (nearly 25 percent bigger than the existing structure), too close to the streets and too modern-looking. School officials, who want to let construction contracts in March and open the school in 2013, say the new design is a good fit for the educational needs of the school's 600-student enrollment, even if it's not perfect in every other way. They say the small size of the property -- less than five acres -- has caused the challenges.
DECEMBER 2010...from The St. Louis Business Journal: The Clayton (Mo.) School District will break ground in March on its new, $39.4 million Wydown Middle School, a 120,000-square-foot, two-story school for 550 students. A four-phase construction plan is expected to begin in March and be completed by the end of 2013. The architects are Arcturis and Neumann Monson Architects
