A welcome addition to the area with high end, maintenance free living. 44 luxury ranch duplex townhomes starting at $399,000, built by one of Lockport's finest builders. Screened in back porch, lookout and walkout lots available. Add it up and building your own ranch townhome just makes cents!! At The Villas of Clover Ridge we are creating a community of high end townhomes with a close proximity to downtown Lockport's shopping, dining and I-355. Rooms include a bedroom, an exercise room, a full bath and a massive recreation area, complete with wet bar. This model even includes a full, finished basement, giving you a total of 3,300 sq. ceilings, glamour baths, designer kitchen. Model completed and ready for immediate delivery! Go ahead, take notes and pictures, we understand the decorating is spectacular! Careful though, when you go back home you'll still be longing for all the great features a little paint and throw pillows can't recreate. Nearby, there is a space that used to house an auto shop that the district uses for storage, McBride said, which could potentially be used to expand the academy space.Introducing Phase 2 of Clover Ridge! BIG builder incentives till end of year. To get to the entrance for the program, the students walk through a back gate and a side entrance. In the Lockport Academy space, in the basement, students walk through windowless hallways to get to class and the teachers work in windowless offices. The district’s two important programs: Lockport Academy, an alternative placement for students with individualized education program needs, and the Career and Community Connections, for students with special needs to help them transition to work post graduation, are housed at Central Campus and quickly outgrowing their spaces, McBride said. But it would cost between $9 million to $12 million just to install, and a design concept would have to be created, he said. One thing the district is considering, McBride said, is putting a clear roof over the courtyard. Within the courtyard, there is a cylinder-shaped building, built in the 1950s, that holds classrooms and the library, with the bottom floor now used for storage, McBride said. The school was built in a square shape, with the middle forming a concrete courtyard. “What you see a lot of in this building, because we’re trying to connect modern and old, and jerry-rigging things, you see a lot of mechanicals hanging,” McBride said.Ī closet at Central Campus was renovated to be the business department office.įarther down the hall from the business classroom, the foyer built in the 1930s still has the original wood paneling, ceiling and stain glass windows. Inside a business classroom, window air conditioning units keep the room cool and a corner of the room has servers and wiring. Modern school buildings have that feature, he said, but district officials have preserved the original floor with the school’s crest in the main entrance.Īround the corner, a room that used to be a closet was renovated into the business department office. “This whole project, if we do it, is all about preservation and renovation.” School walk throughīy the main entrance, McBride said the administration office should have windows into the hallway so students could look into the offices and for building administrators to view the main entrance. We found that people have a lot of investment in this building, and it’s history, and it’s story,” McBride said. “We really started exploring renovation because it’s more cost effective. “We’ve been really happy with the outcome.” “It was an opportunity for him to see the space and give his staff an opportunity to think about some ideas that other schools have done and have incorporated,” Sorensen said. Ken Sorensen, associate principal for operations and technology at Downers Grove North, showed McBride how the district built a gym, science labs and culinary labs and addressed accessibility and safety issues. McBride said he and district officials also toured other schools that renovated older buildings, such as Downers Grove North High School, built in the 1920s. The committee and district officials also agreed renovation would be cheaper than building, which is estimated to cost between $165 million to $200 million, McBride said. “They came to the conclusion that there is so much space in this building that could be used differently, more efficiently, that it would make sense to do a more major renovation beyond the cost of just all the electric, heating and cooling,” McBride said.
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