Board considers feedback from families “In November, when the Affton Board of Education settled on a tuition schedule that would allow it to recapture the start-up costs of the Early Childhood Education Center opening next fall, a few factors apparently were overlooked. The board and administrators plan to correct those oversights by adjusting fees that […]
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Ceremonial Groundbreaking For Affton Early Childhood Center
“It may be iffy semantics to call a ceremony marking the start of renovations to an existing structure a “groundbreaking,” but if there’s a better way to describe eight, hard-hatted, spade-wielding preschoolers and speechifying school officials, let Noah Webster sort it out. On Dec. 6, school board members past and present, state officials, parents of […]
CBC Students Get Used to Pros–and Cons–of High-Tech Campus
“You can’t say your dog ate your laptop.” By: Kate Miller Staff Writer About five weeks into the school year, students at Christian Brothers College (CBC) High School are getting comfortable at their new digs in Town and Country. The new $45 million CBC sits on a 25-acre campus at 1850 De La Salle Drive. […]
Art & Technology Combine at CBC
by Kathie Sutin Some projects are work of art. Others are works of love. The new Christian Brothers College High School on Highway 40 in Town and Country is both. The stunning 250,000-square-foot building is replete with many head-turning features including: * Twin turrets and a stone archway in a gothic entry, * A spacious […]
Sonacom Selected to Upgrade Technology at Nidus Center
Sonacom has been selected to provide a complete technology upgrade at Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, a unique business incubator for start-up companies in plant and life sciences. Originally published in Rising Media August 8, 2003 Sonacom will provide state-of-the-art network infrastructure throughout the 40,000-square-foot building on Monsanto Co.’s Creve Coeur, Mo., campus. Among the […]
The K-12 Market Earns a B-
Excerpt from an article originally published in St. Louis Construction News & Review, May-June 2003 By Jan Niehaus Within the context of the extended economic slowdown, K-12 school construction is one of our gold-star performers. While other sectors are retrenching, the December 2002 Architectural Record predicted a one percent increase in institutional projects. St. Louis […]