Ground Breaking Takes Place for a New Urban Discovery Academy
KCM Group, a full-service construction management and consulting firm, recently announced that construction is underway on the Urban Discovery Academy. The K-8 public charter school will be permanently located at Silo-Makers Quarter in the heart of San Diego’s East Village neighborhood.
“Urban Discovery Academy is fortunate to reach an important milestone in the construction process,” said MaeLin Levine, Urban Discovery Academy board president. “This project has faced some unique challenges, and KCM Group’s expertise has been crucial to getting us to the school’s construction phase.”
For the past six years, Urban Discovery Academy (UDA) has been operating out of rented space on Sixth Avenue, across from Balboa Park. KCM Group was selected to oversee the relocation and construction of the project. The new UDA will consist of a school facility with outdoor parking and playground areas to be constructed on 30,000-square-feet of property along the western side of 14th Street (between E Street and F Street). The project will continue nearly a century of educational use of the site by incorporating and renovating an historic two-story, 20,000-square-foot College District building and integrating it with a new two-story, 16,000-square-foot learning space.
The new UDA will consist of a school facility with outdoor parking and playground areas to be constructed on 30,000-square-feet of property.
Urban Discovery Academy, designed by AVRP Studios Architectural, is part of the charter school movement, which aims to bring innovative educational choices to local residents. Chartered through the San Diego Unified School District, UDA is the product of passionate parents and community leaders who believe a school embedded in the City’s urban core will draw creatively on the strength of the neighborhood’s financial, civic and creative arts institutions.
The project is currently scheduled to be completed by July 2015.
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