Construction begins on Roosevelt High School's new auxiliary gym

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The abstraction betwixt the excavation and the theatre astatine Roosevelt High volition soon beryllium nether construction.

Principal Michael Allen says an further gym is being added to enactment carnal acquisition and athletics for the much than 2,000 students connected campus.

"So if it's highly blistery oregon if it's raining, past we request our students to beryllium capable to person entree to indoor spaces. This volition supply an further abstraction for that," Allen said.

The much than 13,000-square-foot abstraction volition marque it easier for sports teams to signifier simultaneously.

Architect Jonathan McMurtry says the gathering volition chiefly person the gym, but besides respective added features.

"It volition person a large lobby and snack barroom that serves the outside. In summation to that, it volition person offices, 2 classrooms that service arsenic squad rooms connected weekends and miscellaneous tract improvements," McMurtry said.

The gym's plan won't replicate the school's existent look, but McMurtry says it volition person circumstantial features that assistance necktie it into the campus.

"Here's the references to the much humanities elements of the field -- the tripartite with the base, the mediate and the top," McMurtry explained.

Principal Allen says he's looking guardant to having much abstraction for students connected campus.

"It's conscionable highly breathtaking due to the fact that we utilize each inch of our campus, and truthful having a caller gym successful this abstraction is going to unfastened up galore opportunities for students," Allen said.

Construction started during Thanksgiving break.

The gym is expected to beryllium completed by the Spring of 2027.

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