Wednesday, March 6, 2002
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Wednesday, March 6, 2002 |
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New elementary to go in northern PTC By DAVE HAMRICK
The final piece of the school bond puzzle is now in place. Fayette County's Board of Education Monday approved the purchase of land at Crabapple Lane and Ga. Highway 74 for the last of three elementary schools included in the bond issue approved by voters in 2000. A high school also is under construction as part of the bond issue. School system officials had been looking for a site in the north Peachtree City/south Tyrone area, and Monday the board purchased it in three parcels. Crabapple Lane Elementary School will occupy the parcels, The first is at the immediate corner of Crabapple and Hwy. 74, 6.72 acres sold by Peachtree City Holdings LLC. The second is three acres next door at 454 Crabapple, sold by Melvin H. McElreath Jr., and the final 14-acre tract at 470 Crabapple was sold by Jerry W. and Donna K. Henry. Two other elementary schools are already under construction: Cleveland Elementary on Lester Road on the west side of Fayetteville and Sara Harp Minter Elementary on Ga. Highway 85 south of town. Construction is expected to begin in May on Whitewater High School next to Minter. The two schools are on a site the board recently named the Goza Road Educational Complex. There are tentative plans to build yet another elementary school on the well-known Katz property in Peachtree City, but that school is not included in last year's bond issue.
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