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Roland Park School will be home to an athletic facility worth $19 million, the 100-year-old school's board of trustees and president, Jeffrey H. Seibert informed Digital Sports through a release from its communications' director.
The project, designed by Bowie Gridley Architects with construction to be carried out by Roy
Kirby & Sons, is expected to be completed in August 2008.
The new athletic complex will house
three teaching gyms, a main competition court, additional classroom and
meeting space, and locker rooms for players and officials, according to communications director, Nancy T. Mugele.
The facility also will be home to a
suspended running track, a rowing tank for crew -- believed to be the
first of its kind in a Maryland high school -- a horizontal climbing
wall, a fitness center and a
daycare facility for employee's children.
Roland Park School will also feature
two synthetic turf fields and a newly landscaped parking lot for employees
and students, according to Mugele's release.
The campaign, entitled, A
Place in our Hearts, is raising $25 million toward the project, with the remainder going toward endowment for faculty compensation and student financial assistance, according to Mugele.
Early committments to the 100-year-old school total over $14 million, according to reports from Jean Waller Brune, head of Roland Park School, and campaign co-chairs
Helen and E. Magruder Passano, Jr., and leadership gifts chair Fred C. C.
Crozier. --Lem Satterfield
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