Sunday, March 21, 1999
Cincinnati Country Day School to rebuild bigger
BY CHRISTINE WOLFF
The Cincinnati Enquirer
INDIAN HILL — Cincinnati Country Day School officials begin construction this spring on a $19.2 million building project that will vastly change the look of the 73-year-old private school.
Indian Hill's planning commission approved the project's construction plan last week, the last hurdle to getting under way.
When completed in fall 2000, the school will have replaced a 55,000-square-foot, one-story Upper School building with a structure containing 95,000 square feet on three levels — without taking up more land.
Demolition of the Upper School begins in early July and should take about four weeks. Site work will begin in April.
For the 1999-2000 school year, the 260 Upper School students will attend classes inside an “academic village” set up on the Given Road campus' north side, said Jenny Morgan, the school's director of plant operations. Forty-two trailers covering 30,000 square feet will be rigged together under one roof to create a school.
“We will duplicate the old facility in everything but the auditorium,” she said.
The new facility features a 525- to 575-seat theater; a library/technology center; a commons area and art gallery; a 400-seat dining hall; and a science center with five laboratories.
Money to pay for the project is being raised as part of a $20 million campaign, which also will support Country Day's endowment funds. The fund-raising campaign, being conducted privately now, will go public this spring, said Victor Weber, the school's director of advancement.
The construction project worries Lincoln Pavey, whose property on Shawnee Run Road is next to Country Day's campus. He is concerned about more noise from additional rooftop air-conditioning units, and that construction will worsen drainage and erosion problems on his property.
Michael Burns, Indian Hill's city manager, said the planning commission will require Country Day officials to look into softening the air-conditioning noises. The drainage onto Mr. Pavey's property probably can't be eliminated because it's a natural drainage pattern, but it will continue to be looked at, Mr. Burns said.
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