Improvements to South Lake Tahoe High School helps primary home buyers.
(Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / September 17, 2011 / Richard Bolen)
This is all good news for South Lake Tahoe home buyers. Home prices have not been this affordable in a decade, and mortgage interest rates have never been this low.
In addition to these very real home buyer advantages, there are a host of additional South Lake Tahoe positives that make our community even more attractive, and our housing climate even better. These positives include improvements in our infrastructure and private investments in local businesses. All together, what this means is a tremendous amount of very smart money is being put into South Lake Tahoe right now.
This is a part-five in a 9-part series to help South Lake Tahoe home buyers better understand the ongoing investment into our resort community, and how these infusions make for an even better reason to buy here.
Improvements to South Lake Tahoe High School
While we understand local high school improvements may not benefit a vacation home buyer with no school age children, they certainly do make for a better education climate for home buyers with children who intend on living here.
Improvements to South Lake Tahoe High School abet its educational and athletic programs, and are seen by school administrators as a means to improve academic performance and to increase student enrollment, which after a decade of decline, has recently stabilized (here). Some of these improvements are:
The Theater Arts and Design Academy Building is a new $9.3 million facility that is the key focal point of the school district's "if you build it, they will come" enrollment strategy. The new building will house a professional theater, recording studios, editing suites, a tiered orchestra room, all engineered to exacting professional standards.
Planned to hold summer workshops, classes and live performances, the new Theater Arts building will become a community gathering place, as well as a summer facility to provide extra income from the school. This new building is part of an overall $94.3 million investment into the local educational infrastructure. Included is the recently completed Green Construction Building, a Transportation Building, and Stadium View Building. It will also include modernization of the school gymnasium, a new student union and sports medicine building. Completion for all is expected by 2014/2015 school years (here).
Athletic program improvements are perhaps more immediate to the community at large. This includes a new high-end synthetic turf football and soccer field, and four new 70-foot light poles, each with 10 fixtures to light the new field.
These improvements are part of a $1.1 million effort to renovate the school's athletic facilities, which also includes a new concession stand and restrooms. Some $340,000 of this budget was devoted to the new turf and field lighting. An additional fundraising effort is under way to add new bleachers and improvements to the concession area as well.
The South Lake Tahoe High School is closest to the Gardner Mountain, Y Area and North Upper Truckee residential neighborhoods.
Other Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog posts in this series:
Sep 13, 2011: (pt 1) California Conservation Corps Tahoe Service Center
Sep 14, 2011: (pt 2) Trout Creek to Ski Run Project
Sep 15, 2011: (pt 3) Lake View Commons
Sep 16, 2011: (pt 4) Sierra Colina Village
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